“Twenty-five years after it came out—and got bulldozed in theaters by The Matrix—the timeline-twisting indie comedy Go looks better than ever.”
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Elevate Me Later
“Highbrow horror cinema has won respectability—but sold its soul.”
Daylight Savings Time: A (Beach) Reading List for the Lighthearted
I hear that there are people in the world who prefer lighthearted stories. Lovely meet-cutes where no one gets hurt and people even fall in love, where there is serendipity like there used to be before the internet, where good things happen to good people. Cozy mysteries that involve a cat—or possibly, as in one […]
Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?
“How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.”
Who’s Afraid of Mickey Mouse?
“Why the Disney formula doesn’t work in China.”
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
“Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.”
How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice
“For decades, Scott Frank earned up to three hundred thousand dollars a week rewriting other people’s screenplays. Finally, he decided to stop playing ventriloquist.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Ed Park, Rachel Kushner, Will Tavlin, Michaela Cavanagh, and S.C. Gwynne.
It’s the Music You Hear All Day, Without Ever Noticing
“Sync music” has become the soundtrack to our lives — whether we realize it or not.
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
“The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.”

