By Erik Piepenburg Many directors fall in love with scary movies through late-night cable binges or with friends at a drive-in. Osgood...

By Alissa Wilkinson If Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” was a twist on the centuries-old Gothic horror genre, there was no one better...

By A.O. Scott “I am not a senator, a governor or a former cabinet secretary,” JD Vance wrote on the first page of “Hillbilly Elegy,” by...

By Brian Raftery In 1973, the first chapter of an unpublished novel was photocopied and passed around the Manhattan offices of Doubleday...

By Julia Jacobs While dismissing the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin on Friday, the judge did not hold back. She...

By Julia Jacobs and Graham Bowley Prosecutors painted Alec Baldwin as a headstrong actor who repeatedly shirked his duty to maintain gun...

By Yan Zhuang and Amanda Holpuch Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who collaborated with James Cameron in making three of the...

By Jason Bailey Speculative science fiction, period drama and sly thrillers are among this month’s off-the-beaten-path recommendations...