Mary McNamara is a culture columnist and critic for the Los Angeles Times. Previously she was assistant managing editor for arts and entertainment following a 12-year stint as television critic and ...

David Ehrlich is the Reviews Editor and Head Film Critic at IndieWire. Based in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, their two young children, and a crushing amount of anxiety that he treats with a ...

Artists and thinkers have long fixated on the notion of an ideal society—but these experiments, in fiction and in life, inevitably fall short. Why are we still drawn in by the possibility of ...