Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. King of the Road On Wednesday, President Donald Trump pre-emptively announced on social media that New York City’s congestion … Read more
In 2012, the actor Stephen Graham and his wife were having a quiet dinner at a chain chicken joint in London when a young man approached the table. The man, James Nelson-Joyce, told Graham that he had just left drama school and wanted to be an actor, too. Many would have sent the 20-something away … Read more
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Rural life anchors a number of our recommended titles this week, from Charlotte Wood’s lovely novel set at a remote Australian convent to Bob Johnson’s Indiana short stories, and from Lyndal Roper’s history of peasant revolution to Callan Wink’s novel of brothers scratching for sustenance in rural Montana. Elsewhere, we also recommend a biography of … Read more
Nothing is fair in love or war in the fast-paced Polish spy drama “The Eastern Gate” (in Polish and Russian, with subtitles or dubbed). The show, on Max, is intense, tricky and surprising. “Don’t trust anyone,” the characters constantly warn one another. And, well — don’t. Ewa (Lena Gora) is a Polish spy, and at … Read more
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“Old Guy” is billed as an action movie but it is actually more of a fantasy film. It imagines a world in which an aging hit man kills his targets without consequence before retreating to nightclubs where scads of beautiful young women compete to accompany him home. Presumably Danny Dolinski (Christoph Waltz) has been enjoying … Read more
The Danish heist thriller “The Quiet Ones” centers on a big score that involves using garbage trucks to block the major roads in Copenhagen to buy the thieves enough time to raid a cash-handling firm. The many moving parts get the better of the filmmakers. The director, Frederik Louis Hviid, opens the movie with a … Read more
