The toxicity of love can be strangely appealing — whether experienced directly or vicariously. Naturally, this does not hold true for all romances — indeed, it would not appear to hold true for most.

"Genius," wrote Baudelaire, "is no more than childhood recaptured at will." This was 168 years ago, before the popular conception of artistic genius could evolve into what it became by the middle of ...

Set in the London fashion world of the 1950s, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” examines how famed designer Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) attempts to mold and manipulate his latest muse, ...