The “Jackass” style is heavily influenced by lo-fi underground skate videos from the 1980s and ’90s, in which skaters in a crew showed off their tricks to music. By ALISSA WILKINSON That the “Jackass” franchise is perhaps the most successful documentary series of all time is indisputable. Its best-known star, Johnny Knoxville, has the concussions to prove it. Twenty-five years in, as “Jackass: Best and Last” hits theaters, it’s still a little tricky to pin down what exactly

Michael Caine (Wikipedia) By ALEXANDRA ALTER In a new audiobook edition of the “Odyssey,” Homer’s nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem, the voice of British actor Michael Caine delivers the story’s soaring opening lines in his distinctive, gravelly staccato. “Tell me, O Muse, of that sagacious man who, having overthrown the sacred town of Ilium, wandered far and visited the capitals of many nations, learned the customs of their dwellers, and endured great suffering on the deep,” C

Neil Sedaka at his home in West Hollywood, Calif., on June 25, 2025. At 86, the singer and songwriter is seeing his albums reissued as he occasionally takes the stage to celebrate his decades-old resurrection. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) By BOB MEHR After the man in a dark cashmere sweater and tortoiseshell glasses sat down at a piano and leaned into the microphone, his first words were a declaration: “Sedaka’s back … again!” It was late March and the lounge at Vitello

“The Last One for the Road” By DEVIKA GIRISH This month’s titles include Pride Month picks from Brazil, Sweden and Croatia; a soccer drama from Ireland; and a comedy from Italy. ‘Saipan’ For those seeking filmic appetizers to go with their World Cup viewing, Mubi currently has an entire program of international movies devoted to soccer, including renowned gems like Bill Forsyth’s “Gregory’s Girl” (1980), Corneliu Porumboiu’s “Infinite Football” (2018) and Alexandre Koberidz

For the most part ... Supergirl is just another young, alienated extraterrestrial grappling with some eternal existential hurdles, some seriously far out. (Warner Bros. Pictures) By MANOHLA DARGIS A few times early in “Supergirl,” its heroine looks like a mess — a beautifully styled and scrupulously photographed one, true, but a wreck nevertheless. She likes to party hard, this chick, and will slam down drinks as heedlessly as any bro on a bender before crawling into bed alon

“Disclosure Day” (Universal Pictures) By STEPHANIE GOODMAN The year’s barely half over and already it’s been an unusual one for moviegoers. Generation Z filmmakers have scored megahits with their feature debuts (“Obsession,” “Backrooms”), expected megahits have done just OK (“The Mandalorian and Grogu”) and established hitmakers like Steven Spielberg have proved divisive. I asked New York Times chief film critic Manohla Dargis and Times movie critic Alissa Wilkinson to recomm

“Funny Pages” (2022) By BRANDON YU When Wallace, an erratic, former comic book colorist, is confronted with his own failures in Owen Kline’s “Funny Pages,” he makes a declaration that might be the mantra of anyone who strove and couldn’t make it. “You don’t just get to be an artist!” he shrieks at two aspiring teen cartoonists who look to him — the wrong guy, if there ever was one — to be their mentor. It’s a climactic moment from the outrageous, funny and ultimately moving f

By MAYA SALAM As a child, I collected so many shark jaws that my mom disappeared them all one day while I was at school because my room allegedly smelled “fishy.” I suspect it was my general fixation on the beasts that didn’t pass the sniff test. When I first saw “Jaws” at age 8 — more than a decade after its 1975 release — it exploded my already shark-obsessed young mind. I should have been more scared, but instead I was captivated. When I saw “Jaws 2,” not long after, it sp

“Sisu” (2023) By JASON BAILEY This month’s streaming suggestions include poignant biographical portraits, coming-of-age dramas, a late-career leading role for a legend and more. ‘Sisu’ (2023) You have to congratulate Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander for his commercial savvy: With this sleeper hit, he’s concocted a lean, mean mixture of the most joy-buzzer elements of “John Wick” and “Inglourious Basterds.” Set in the final days of World War II, it tells the story of a gold

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis in New York’s Riverside Park, the site of a memorable scene in the movie “The Warriors” involving bat-wielding gang members, Oct. 3, 2024. Miranda and Davis have jointly written the book, music, and lyrics for their new musical, “Warriors,” the first full musical from Miranda since “Hamilton,” opening on Broadway in spring 2027. (Daniel Weiss/The New York Times) By MICHAEL PAULSON “Warriors,” the first full musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda sin