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Critics at Large Live: The Year of the Flop

12/19/2024 • 45 min

This year, high-profile failures abounded. Take, for example, Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project “Megalopolis,” which cost a hundred and forty million dollars to make—and brought in less than ten per cent of that at the box office. And what was Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump but a fiasco of the highest order? On this episode of Critics at Large, record… Play episode

After “Wicked,” What Do We Want from the Musical?
The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome
Will Kids Online, In Fact, Be All Right?
The Value—and Limits—of Seeking Comfort in Art
Critics at Large Live: Julio Torres’s Dreamy Surrealism
Help, I Need a Critic!
A Controversial Trump Bio-pic and the Villains We Make
“The Substance” and the New Horror of the Modified Body
The Fate of the Finance Bro
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful Deceptions
Was Abraham Lincoln Gay . . . And Should We Care?
The Trap of the Trad Wife
Tarot, Tech, and Our Age of Magical Thinking
The Irresistible Myth of Las Vegas
Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, and the Unstable Hierarchy of Pop
Why We Want What Tom Ripley Has
The Kamala Harris Vibe Shift
From Vanity Fair’s “Dynasty”: Can Harry and Meghan’s Hollywood Dream Last?
Alice Munro’s Fall from Grace
The Changing World of Nature Documentaries
From The New Yorker Radio Hour: Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Realit…
Summer Obsessions
The Therapy Episode
Is Travel Broken?
The Many Faces of the Hit Man
The Rising Tide of Slowness
The New Midlife Crisis
Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and the Benefits of Beef
Our Collective Obsession with True Crime
Why the Sports Movie Always Wins
“Civil War” ’s Unsettling Images
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the Art of the Finale
Why We Want What Tom Ripley Has
Kate Middleton and the Internet’s Communal Fictions
Is Science Fiction the New Realism?
The New Coming-of-Age Story
Why We Love an Office Drama
The Politics of the Oscar Race
How Usher, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift Build Their Own Legacies
The Painful Pleasure of “Wretched Love”
Why We Can’t Quit the Mean Girl
From In the Dark: The Runaway Princesses
What Is the Comic For?
The Case for Criticism
Can Slowness Save Us?
Portraits of the Artist
From The New Yorker Radio Hour: a Conversation with Dolly Parton
The Year of the Doll
George Santos and the Art of the Scam

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