Alyssa Rosenberg

WIDE ANGLE: SMALL WORLD

Movies that enchant kids and train them to be lifelong consumers of art should be held to the highest standards Published 06 May, 2018 07:05am

WIDE ANGLE: AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

The Assassination of Gianni Versace is a story about a clash between falseness and authenticity where the former Published 25 Feb, 2018 07:40am

WIDE ANGLE: DEFINED BY DWARFISM

Hollywood’s ability to squander Peter Dinklage’s talents isn’t the worst or only tragedy of the industry’s narrow Published 03 Dec, 2017 08:11am

SUBTEXT: THE DIVERSITY QUESTION

The announcement of Joss Whedon as the director of the Batgirl film raises a dilemma Updated 14 May, 2017 06:15am

The cult of the first daughter

If you’d designed her in a lab, you could not have produced a more highly optimized first daughter than Ivanka Trump. Updated 11 Apr, 2017 10:23am

SUBTEXT: Genre As An Artform

After Logan and Arrival, can we stop pretending ‘genre’ movies are unserious? Updated 07 Apr, 2017 07:31pm

Watching Silence will make you feel terrible — and it should

FOR much of my career as a critic, I’ve written primarily about the ideas in movies and television and how they... Published 07 Jan, 2017 07:07am

Ethics: Five questions we need to answer before colonising Mars

There’s a race to get to the Red Planet but what kind of society do we want there? Published 09 Oct, 2016 06:56am

Divorce is miserable for everyone — not just for the couple splitting up

WHEN I talked to Stephen Falk in August in advance of the new season of his excellent dark comedy You’re the ... Published 09 Oct, 2016 06:54am

Ferrante’s outing elicits tensions between authenticity and privacy

I DON’T care very much about the actual identity of Elena Ferrante, the author, most famously, of the quartet of... Published 07 Oct, 2016 06:36am

No, a woman shouldn’t play James Bond

AS happens periodically, a number of prominent actresses have recently said that they wouldn’t be averse to ... Published 27 May, 2016 06:57am

All the Way is must-watch political movie of 2016 election

GIVEN the failures of political prognostication to explain the 2016 presidential election, it makes a lot of sense... Published 22 May, 2016 06:57am

Celebrities: stop threatening to leave US over elections

THERE have been many startling things about the 2016 race for the presidency. But we’ve reached a predictable part... Published 30 Apr, 2016 06:00am

The X-Files shows why Americans fall for conspiracy theories

RESURRECTIONS of old franchises have colonised pop culture with the ruthless efficiency of an alien invasion, from... Published 25 Jan, 2016 06:39am

What Marlon Brando can teach us about the fight for equality in Hollywood

THE past several years have drawn enormous attention to inequality in Hollywood and the mixed political reality... Published 11 Jan, 2016 07:07am

Hollywood’s most valuable stars are still overwhelmingly white and male

2015 was supposed to be the year that Hollywood recognised what women and people of colour are worth.Furious 7, the... Published 23 Nov, 2015 06:10am

Long line of mass killers have reached out to media

Technology, and an accelerating rate of mass killings, seems to make such an outcome inevitable. Published 29 Aug, 2015 06:50am

The virtues of sad holiday movies

Their sense of sadness and redemption is absolutely true to a deeper and more meaningful sense of the season. Updated 30 Dec, 2014 10:12am

The Golden Globes and awards season’s obsession with tragedy

IN the annual process of handicapping the races for the Golden Globes and Academy Awards, one inevitable variable in... Published 13 Dec, 2014 07:10am

The internet’s funniest women

EARLIER this year, the fashion blog Go Fug Yourself celebrated its 10th anniversary. The site has a simple concept:... Published 01 Dec, 2014 06:23am