Sam Adams

The most satisfying network TV drama in years doesn’t air on a TV network. With its second season about to begin streaming on HBO Max, The Pitt still strikes me as something of an ungainly hybrid between binge-era storytelling and the slow drip of a weekl... See more

The most successful director in the history of movies has done it again. In its third weekend in theaters, Avatar: Fire and Ash’s box-office take rose to $1.08 billion, making James Cameron the first director with four movies to earn $1 billion or more. T... See more

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, Gil Scott-Heron’s 1971 spoken-word song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” serves as both a secret password and background noise. The members of the defunct resistance group the French 75 use its lyr... See more

Matt and Ross Duffer have promised that Stranger Things’ Broadway prequel, The First Shadow, was not only part of the Netflix series’ canonical plot but would prove integral to its final season. And with its newly released sixth episode, “Escape From Cama... See more

I can’t remember the precise moment, but somewhere between Marty Supreme’s ecstatic surprise premiere at the New York Film Festival and the point where A24 sent a bright orange blimp to float over Los Angeles, I formed the thought, Oh, they actually want ... See more