Doreen St. Felix

Writer at The New Yorker

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Play It Again, Charles Burnett

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Doreen St. Felix

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. August 6, 1965. The government lays one more brick in the foundation of its imagined Great Society. Great men of Washington and of the civil-rights movement surround President Lyndon B. Johnson as he signs into law the Voting Rights Act.
Play It Again, Charles Burnett

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Doreen St. Felix

I’ve seen 41 movies in theaters so far this year — here are the 5 best and 5 worstIt’s almost the halfway point of the year. And putting to one side my concerns about how worryingly fast 2025 is flying by, I’m using this …
“The Encampments” and the American College Student

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Doreen St. Felix

The institution has not neglected to commemorate the history of agitation against it. The year 2018 marked five decades since students occupied the halls of Columbia University, demanding that the school’s board sever ties to the defense industry during the Vietnam War, and also that it cease construction of a gymnasium—“Gym Crow”—which would have segregated access to Harlem residents. Columbia retaliated by shutting down the shutdown.
“The Encampments” and the American College Student

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Doreen St. Felix

They All Signed the Harper’s Letter. Where Are They Now? They All Signed the “Harper’s” Letter. Where Are They Now? Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent …
Goings On Newsletter

2 months ago | link.newyorker.com | Inkoo Kang |Doreen St. Felix |D. T. Max

Our theatrical spring continues to be a bright one, with a bounty of audacious, boundary-breaking work emerging Off Broadway in the coming weeks. At the Atlantic Theatre Company, Mona Pirnot’s tribute to the downtown theatre scene, “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan,” is at Atlantic Stage 2, through April 30, and Eliya Smith’s kid-bereavement drama, “Grief Camp,” will be on the mainstage, through May 11.
The Shameless Redemption Tour of Jonathan Majors

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Doreen St. Felix

What decade is “Magazine Dreams,” a spiritually stifled drama about a bodybuilder driven to fits of chemically induced rage, set in? In the early moments of the film, written and directed by Elijah Bynum, everything about the fashion, the setting, and the subject suggests the late seventies. Standing in the gaping maw of a garage is an Adonis, the bodybuilder Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors).
The Shameless Redemption Tour of Jonathan Majors

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Doreen St. Felix

1 day agoThe actor wants back in the industry’s good graces, but his new movie, Magazine Dreams—and the surrounding press tour—isn’t enough. The athlete’s physique is both a marvel and a weapon. Witness Killian Maddox, a bodybuilder whose formidable muscles gleam under golden light. He is a violent man—some …
Goings On Newsletter

Mar 28, 2025 | link.newyorker.com | Helen Shaw |Namwali Serpell |Doreen St. Felix

Plus: Baz Luhrmann’s medieval Monsieur; Black femininity Off Broadway in “Wine in the Wilderness”; and the havoc of “The Threepenny Opera.” View in browser | What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. In today’s newsletter, up-and-coming film directors take the screen.
The Flawed Heart of “Adolescence”

Mar 22, 2025 | newyorker.com | Doreen St. Felix

Netflix is currently ranking the British miniseries “Adolescence” as its most-watched television show among Americans. The streaming service shrouds the methods by which it reaches these metrics in a lot of mumbo-jumbo. But this drama, about a thirteen-year-old boy who is suspected of killing a girl at his school, is, by my observations, creeping toward critical and fan consensus. Are Americans stunned by “Adolescence” because of the culture shock it offers?
“Paradise” Is Manna for the Moment

Mar 1, 2025 | newyorker.com | Doreen St. Felix

“Paradise,” on Hulu, is a political thriller with a vintage feel. Surely Hollywood’s obsession with the Presidency has produced this kind of drama before? There is the handsome white Commander-in-Chief, President Cal Bradford (James Marsden), shuttled to the high office through the maneuvers of his emotionally abusive baron of a father. And there is his Black sentinel, Agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K.