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John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
Arts & CultureTelevision
John Anderson
The six-part part series, which will play Sunday nights starting March 11, is subdivided into some novel plots of papal territory.
Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor pictured right in ‘The Death of Stalin’
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
High-stakes politics, small-minded men: It’s a sweet spot for filmmaker Armando Iannucci.
Vicky Krieps and Daniel Day-Lewis in “The Phantom Thread” (Focus Features)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
To see P. T. Anderson's new film as merely beautiful is simply not to see it.
Photos: clockwise from top left: “Long Strange Trip” (Amazon Studios); “Get Out” (Universal Pictures); Phantom Thread” (Focus Features); and “Lady Bird” (A24)  
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Nine films that raised our faith in humanity because, after all, humans made these movies.
Alastair Sim in the 1951 version of “A Christmas Carol” (Getty Images)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Five movies to watch this holiday season: some familiar, some unexpected.
Margot Robbie in “I, Tonya”
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Perhaps Trump-style class resentments and the disregarding of women’s stories are simply constants in American life.
Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (photo: Fox Searchlight)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” contains enough guilt to keep the town's confessionals busy for months.
Saoirse Ronan as Lady Bird (Photo: A24)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Lady Bird, with her magenta hair and acne, is an original; Greta Gerwig, appropriately, takes chances.
Melissa Leo as the fearsome Reverend Mother Marie St. Claire (Sony Pictures Classics)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Set in the early ’60s, “Novitiate” is yet another tale of the trauma suffered by the religious and their orders in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
Josh Gad, Chadwick Bosman and Sterling K. Brown in 'Marshall' (Open Road Films)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
He might get a shotgun escort when he leaves town, but Thurgood Marshall is the Lone Ranger of civil rights.