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For more than 50 years, the influential documentarian found inspiration in filming the ways his ordinary subjects lived their lives.

If you want more Canadian TV series about emotionally complex hockey players, look no further.

He played rugged, capable men drawn from America’s past, present and possible future.

An Oscar winner, he was known for disappearing into wide-ranging roles in movies like “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather” and in the television series “Lonesome Dove.”

The actor, who had a knack for embodying a wealth of varied characters, had a sprawling and celebrated career.

He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant.

Her death from cancer was the second sudden loss for this year’s edition. Naumann’s exhibition will still go ahead in May, according to a statement.

Our culture critic Maya Phillips analyses Marvel‘s new show “Wonder Man” and looks at how it fits into the wider multiverse.

In a San Francisco garage, Corey Chan and his team create giant, spectacular lions that will lead the festivities.

Duncan takes a serious beating. Egg doesn’t like how things are looking.

A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said a network involving museum employees and tour guides had been operating for a decade.

Theater for a New Audience’s reimagining of the Shakespearean tragedy misses an opportunity to engage the play’s many echoes with our own tense era.

Other picks include Leo McGann’s thriller “The Honey Trap” for Irish Rep; Anne Gridley’s “Watch Me Walk”; and a Jodi Picoult stage adaptation.

To open a series of essays about U.S. presidents, George W. Bush pays tribute to George Washington, who “ensured America wouldn’t become a monarchy, or worse.”

Ceija Stojka, who made visible the historical injustices to the Roma people during and after the Holocaust, is the subject of a stirring show at the Drawing Center.

Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence” was celebrated at its premiere. After her death in 2023, her collaborators continue to travel with it around the world.

Fifty years ago, Junior LaBeija couldn’t afford to see André De Shields in “The Wiz.” Now, they’re starring together in a reimagining of “Cats.”

A look back at one of the most ambitious Muppets projects, a Robert Louis Stevenson adaptation that turns 30 this month.

Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended problems.

Eurasia Group, the geopolitical risk consultancy run by Ian Bremmer, gets into the political satire game with its Instagram show “Puppet Regime.”

The finale of Netflix’s newest talent competition airs, and the second season of “The Last Thing He Told Me” premieres.

Lisa McGee said she had envisaged her new show, “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast,” as a sort of modern, funny “Murder, She Wrote.” Just don’t expect tired Irish stereotypes.

Sting joins the Argentine pop duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso on a track that recalls the Police, and Noah Kahan breaks into the Top 10 with his latest single.

A quirky HBO docuseries about small-scale feuds is the latest pop-culture portrait of a country full of tiny civil wars.

Milo Rau’s examination of the infamous broadcast that preceded the Rwandan genocide is onstage now. Two other works, including “The Pelicot Trial,” arrive in March.

On Sunday the series, the longest running American sitcom, will air its 800th episode on Fox. In an interview, the creator Matt Groening says there’s no end in sight.

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation.

A Penn State sociology professor, she warned that hosts like Oprah Winfrey exploited vulnerable guests on television and sensationalized deviancy.

MIO: Memories in Orbit is influenced by the platforming challenges of Hollow Knight.

But he begins to question his dedication to the sport on the way to Rockaway Beach in the depths of an icy midwinter. Is it worth it?

“It made me feel all the feels as a kid that I didn’t know I had,” said the star of “Lucifer” and the new CBS series “CIA.”

The exhibition at the University of North Texas by a Mexican-born artist included the language “Immigration and Cruelty Enforcement.”

A Rothko, a Twombly and a Surrealist box with a Medici princess by Joseph Cornell are estimated to sell for $145 million.

At the heart of Daniel Fish’s verbatim staging of a C-SPAN segment is a complex relationship, between Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci, that “goes from ‘I hate you’ to ‘I love you’ and back.”

The movie, created by two brothers, contrasts intimate impressions with a tense moment in Nigeria’s history.

Gustavo Dudamel, Blanchett and Harris sit down to discuss their new version of Beethoven’s classic, premiering in Los Angeles this week.

An HBO docuseries explores neighborly drama in a well-armed and hyper-online America. In an interview, the directors considered what it all means.

In this month’s picks, avengers of the toxic variety and princesses of the cosmic variety.

A sudden death rattles the doctors and nurses at the Pitt a little more than usual. Meanwhile, the patients keep steaming in.

Madea only has a few minutes of screen time, but old man Joe has enough attitude to fuel this movie and then some.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

How do we decide which television shows to write about, episode by episode? Our TV editor reveals his strategy.

The screenwriter and director Emerald Fennell narrates a sequence from her film.

The character’s racial identity is at the heart of accusations that the film’s casting is “whitewashing.” But what does the original novel really say?

The painted portrait from President Trump’s first term was completed more than four years ago, but never unveiled. Now he wants the National Portrait Gallery to commission a new one.

Commissioned by the International Olympic Committee, the movies provide a fascinating glimpse of history and the evolution of different sports.

The director and screenwriter Emerald Fennell narrates a sequence from her film featuring Margot Robbie, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver and Hong Chau.

The series dramatizes the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, who married in 1996 and died a few years later. Here’s what to know.

Jordan Klepper congratulated the president, the sole nominee for “the Inaugural Award for Winning the Most Inaugural Awards.”

The chameleonic actor takes on several characters in David Cale’s solo play about a writer in pursuit of his stalker. Or is it all in his mind?

His song “The Distance,” released in 1996, became an anthem for the disaffected members of Generation X.

He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but also for its steadfast style.

A new exhibition about birds ranges from old masters paintings to contemporary art. The show is “a mad sprawl of instincts and intuitions,” says its curator, Simon Schama.

After a 16-month search, the free speech group has chosen two longtime employees, Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, as co-chief executives.

Ngozi Anyanwu’s searing two-hander follows a brother and sister who train in boxing, side by side.

In this goofy B-movie throwback, it’s Liam Neeson to the rescue as a weary, tough-talking bioterror operative.

A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.

Two longtime friends time-travel back to 2008 to pursue their performing dreams in this likably daft comedy.

Tyshawn Sorey’s tribute to the Rothko Chapel, a vintage Pavarotti concert and a release from the Berlin Philharmonic are among our selections.

Museum heists have a higher calling in Relooted, a video game where players take the repatriation of African artifacts into their own hands.