WESLEY MORRIS

There are fewer films now that allow an actor to grow a persona and a Tom Cruise level of stardom. It’s a crisis, and the...

“Live at the Bon Soir,” a restored set of songs from November 1962, allows listeners today — and Streisand, herself — to rediscover the sounds...

Our trash urges gave movies its musk, its fun, its hickies, its exercise. Where did it go?

When the singer smudged her classy image, she “unlocked something new that shot her to the top of pop’s Olympus,” our critic writes: “The vestal...

On “Renaissance,” the pop star’s seventh solo album, she finds escape, rebirth, community, pleasure and control in decades of dance music steeped in Black queer...

The complex ’do of the Hawks player has been debated, dissed and memed. But our critic pays respect to its “confusion, awe and strength.”

At a friend’s urging, our critic saw the “mondo chic” 1981 film by the French director Jean-Jacques Beineix, ahead of a revival. He was thrilled.

The comedian’s latest HBO special, which explores family secrets and sexual orientation, is as much a therapy session as a stand-up show.

One stretch of the broadcast featured a remarkable convergence of Black celebrities, our critic writes. But in the midst of it all, Will Smith’s victory...