The Week | Because the news needs a curator (original) (raw)

• FILM REVIEWBlue Heron Think of Blue Heron as “an announcement of a major talent, one who has made the best film of the year to date,” said Brian Tallerico in RogerEbert.com. Sophy Romvari, 35, drew from her own life to pull us into a domestic sphere that’s “mundane on the surface but hides a truly painful family dynamic....
• • tv reviewDutton Ranch The explosive expansion of the Yellowstone universe continues, as Kelly Reilly’s Beth Dutton and Cole Hauser’s Rip Wheeler attempt to put down new roots in the Lone Star State. With Montana’s ghosts in their rearview mirror, the couple set out to build a ranch of their own even though doing so will ...
• FOOD & DRINKBurgundy: Relative bargains Today, plenty of Burgundies that were once splurge-worthy are “completely out of reach for all but the wealthiest,” said Eric Asimov in The New York Times. But ordinary wine lovers “can still find a relatively soft introduction to the region and its pleasures.” Good so-called village wines, like the...
• BOOK OF THE WEEKThe Rolling Stones: The Biography by Bob Spitz“Hundreds of books have been written about the Rolling Stones, but few sparkle quite like Bob Spitz’s,” said Marc Ballon in the Los Angeles Times. The author, who has previously written doorstop accounts of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin, tells the band’s story in full. We get ...
• OBITUARYJ. Craig Venter The rogue biologist who mapped human DNAJ. Craig Venter was a scientist of breathtaking ambition, more entrepreneur than lab nerd. During the 1990s push to sequence the human genome, he became convinced that the whole process could be done faster, simpler, and cheaper than the endeavor by the intern...