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NYFF 2026: Opening Night Preview and Early Highlights
The 64th edition of the New York Film Festival strikes me as its strongest in ages. I have no doubt that many critics and festival observers will agree with this, and no doubt various theories will be adduced to explain it. I recently heard a critic friend opine that the long shadow of COVID has…
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I’m Not Going Anywhere: Twiggy and Sadie Frost on “Twiggy”
In 1966, photographer Barry Lategan scheduled a test shoot: a model’s first-ever photo shoot, meant to market her to other photographers and brands. That model was 15-year-old Leslie Hornby, a slim, boyish girl with a pixie cut and penciled lashes, and those photos became some of the most recognizable fashion portraits ever taken. Deemed “The…
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Two Perfect Films I Saw at TIFF 2026
It is rare to see a perfect film, let alone two back-to-back, but that is precisely what happened to me on the same day recently at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Both films were documentaries, which in this day and age can be as dramatic as any narrative feature. And these films—Barry Avrich’s “Darlene…
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Watching “The Insider” in 2026: How Comparisons Compel Us to Protect Democracy
After looking for a good whistleblower movie to watch with my almost-lawyer daughter, we settled on Michael Mann’s “The Insider” (1999). I have a soft spot for whistleblower movies, including “Serpico,” “Dark Waters,” “Official Secrets,” “Spotlight,” and “Snowden.” Their protagonists tend to be the closest thing we have to otherwise ordinary real-life superheroes fighting unstoppable…
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Is China Really Stealing A.I. From American Companies?
As Xi Jinping visits President Trump in Washington, the leaders are expected to discuss claims that China is surreptitiously copying American A.I. technologies, a process known as distillation.
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Donohue’s, an Old New York Saloon, Gets a New Operator
The beloved Upper East Side institution is gone. But the downtown restaurateur Jon Neidich says some retro details, and maybe the broiler, will survive.
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Donohue’s, an Old New York Saloon, Gets a New Operator
The beloved Upper East Side institution is gone. But the downtown restaurateur Jon Neidich says some retro details, and maybe the broiler, will survive.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector
A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.
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Anthropic’s Blacklisting by the Pentagon Was Legal, Federal Judges Rule
The Pentagon had “ample support for its conclusion” that the A.I. company’s products could pose a national security risk, according to a Washington appeals court.