Jeffrey Wright’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of “ American Fiction, ” a crowd-pleaser that’s both funny and smart in its satire of race, media, artists, ...

The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...

AMMAN, Jordan — The satirists’ Instagram post showed Jordanian riot police arresting a man for throwing a party to honor his infant son. His crime? The fete was on the day of the crown prince’s ...

Playing a stay-at-home mom who believes she is turning into a dog, Amy Adams lets out a feral howl against the woes of modern womanhood in Nightbitch, a potent but uneven adaptation of the eponymous ...

Mark Zuckerberg revealed that officials from the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor some COVID-19 communication, including humor and satire. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images It’s ...

In Radu Jude’s latest satire, the bracing “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World,” the Romanian writer-director assaults the viewer with many of modern life’s indignities: gridlocked ...

Up against the wall: Ward Sutton’s comic panels get the gallery treatment (“Civil Whites,” 2024, acrylic on canvas, 26x30”). Amid one of the most divisive and chaotic election years in recent history, ...

The latest hit that has him fuming is a book called “We’s Lives In Da Ghetto,” written by a comfortably upper middle class Black woman (Issa Rae) who gives interviews about how dismayed she was in her ...

Amid one of the most divisive and chaotic election years in recent history, Ward Sutton brings his diamond-edged satire — often targeting conservative and right-wing politics — to the Subliminal ...