Full Coverage: Entertainment 2016: Year in Review
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The year 2016 was good for just about three things: new music, TV and memes.
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Brangelina broke up. Kim Kardashian dropped off social media. Hollywood lost the election.
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It’s been more than half a century since the formidable Sam Fuller looked directly at the camera in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou,” but what he said came instantly to mind as I was putting together my 10 best list for 2016.
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This was supposed to be the year that virtual reality went mainstream, and a little game called “Pokemon Go” crashed the party.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of under-seen movies from 2016, as well as trends they’d like to see more and less of.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of little seen movies from the past year.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of under-seen movies from 2016, as well as trends they’d like to see more and less of.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of under-seen movies from 2016, as well as trends they’d like to see more and less of.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of under-seen movies from 2016, as well as trends they’d like to see more and less of.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of under-seen movies from 2016, as well as trends they’d like to see more and less of.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of under-seen movies from 2016, as well as trends they’d like to see more and less of.
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Our reviewers weigh in with lists of under-seen movies from 2016, as well as trends they’d like to see more and less of.
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This time of year brings a barrage of lists -- critics and journalists telling you the 10 best movies you need to see, or need to feel bad for not seeing.
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Has any pop album ever changed shape as quickly — and as thoroughly — as David Bowie’s “Blackstar”?
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The last thing you expect to hear as you approach the White House, after making your way through a gantlet of security checkpoints, are the sounds of live rock and funk blasting through the East Colonnade.
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When you can burn this article like a bra, women will cheer.
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In the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 14, as she prepared to step in front of the cameras at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills to announce the 2016 Oscar nominations to the world, Cheryl Boone Isaacs braced herself for what was to come.
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To interpret cinema through the lens of current events has long been the critic’s prerogative, challenge and occasional Achilles’ heel.
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It’s unlikely to go down as a banner year in American history, but 2016 has undeniably been a fertile period for television, which continues to be the most exciting, dynamic medium in contemporary pop culture, and the one most attuned to the current mood.
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New series I loved in 2016: 13 shows in 10 items, in no particular order.
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“Would that it were so simple.” This line from the Coen brothers film “Hail, Caesar!
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Along with the comedian Norm Macdonald and the singer Kiiara, Donald J.
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So much of what we think about when we think of 2016 in music is tragedy.
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Freshen up those playlists. Below, Times writers pick their favorite songs of the year.
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What did we see when we saw Beyoncé in 2016?
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On a warm summer night in July, artist Tanya Lucia Bernard stood in the middle of the cavernous galleries at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Geffen Contemporary and softly sang a refrain from a civil rights anthem: “We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.”
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In a year in which a woman won the popular vote and almost became president of the United States (I’m doing glass half-full here), female theater artists galvanized our stages.
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As you peruse year-end punditry for something — anything — to elucidate 2016, you will inevitably be burdened with the claim that this was not, as the media led us to believe it would be, the year of the woman in America.
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Books are slow food.
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Is the age of the Blu-ray ending? This year saw companies like Shout!
