Photo From left, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams and Pierce Brosnan in “The Ghost Writer.” Credit Berlinale/European Pressphoto Agency Is your government getting you down? Try Roman Polanski’s escapist version with its real estate porn. Or swoon with a couple of royal bodice-rippers starring Alan Rickman, Matthias Schoenaerts and Mads Mikkelsen. …

Crude oil just hit its highest level in two months and is up more than 8 percent in the past 4 days—and the technician who correctly called the move said the rally is far from over. In a recent interview on CNBC’s “Futures Now,” Scott Redler, chief strategic officer of …

From a distance, Aminé (born Adam Amine Daniel) exudes glee and mischief. On the back of his laptop is a Supreme sticker cut up and reshuffled to read “penis.” On the cover of his album, he is seated on a blue toilet, naked from the calves up. A few weeks …

Photo The documentary “Sled Dogs” makes a moving case for ending the use of these animals for racing and tourism Credit CCI Entertainment It’s easy to fall in love with the animals in “Sled Dogs.” It’s thornier to sift through the words of the handlers and mushers — many of …

Photo The band Operation Ivy at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, Calif., in 1988, as seen in “Turn It Around.” Credit Murray Bowles/Abramorama Punk history is full of lurid misadventures, and Corbett Redford’s thorough documentary, “Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk,” collects many of those “you had …

Photo Carlo Di Palma, left, with Michelangelo Antonioni. Credit Falkun Films When the Italian cinematographer Carlo Di Palma started out, he was a 15-year-old camera assistant on “Ossessione,” the 1943 Luchino Visconti movie that is widely considered the first Italian neorealist film. The new documentary “Water and Sugar: Carlo Di …

Photo Katrina Lenk, left, and Adina Verson in Paula Vogel’s “Indecent.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. Previews …

The executives in the book tell anchors to lay off presidential candidates, a message that Ms. Camerota said she received in real life from management because Roger Ailes, the late Fox News titan, did not want on-air talk about the accusations of sexual harassment against the Republican presidential candidate Herman …

Nearly 40 years ago, Ms. Allen landed on this island, and in this house, on assignment from Life magazine to profile Mr. Feiffer, who had written the screenplay for “Popeye,” the Robert Altman film, out in 1980. She was 25 and Mr. Feiffer 52, and when he asked her to …

Photo Matt Bomer and Dominique McElligott in “The Last Tycoon.” Credit Merie Wallace/Amazon Prime Video “The Last Tycoon,” Amazon’s new series inspired by the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, is certainly meticulous — the period costumes, the hairdos, the historical references. Yet attention to detail doesn’t buy passion, either in romance …