Portraits

Skyler Gisondo’s casting as Henry Focker in Focker-in-Law places him inside a comedy franchise built on one of his strongest screen skills: playing a fundamentally sincere person surrounded by escalating absurdity. Born in 1996 and working on screen since...

Andrew Garfield’s career returns to characters who care too much. That quality becomes wounded ambition in The Social Network, moral conviction in Hacksaw Ridge, artistic panic in tick, tick... BOOM!, romantic grief in We Live in Time, and the...

When Veronika Slowikowska joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player for Season 51 in 2025, she arrived from a comedy ecosystem very different from the one that produced many earlier cast members. The Canadian actor and comedian had...

Robert Redford, who died on September 16, 2025, at age 89, leaves a film legacy richer than the image of the golden Hollywood leading man. His beauty and ease made him a defining star of the late 1960s and...

Cooper Hoffman entered film with a surname that already carried enormous weight. The son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, he made his screen debut in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza in 2021, playing Gary Valentine opposite Alana Haim. The role...

Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt arrived in 2025 carrying the kind of premise that resists comfortable alignment. Julia Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a Yale philosophy professor whose professional and private life is destabilized when her protégée, Maggie Resnick, played...

Kyle MacLachlan’s career has always made room for odd juxtapositions. He can be the clean-cut center of a David Lynch nightmare, a polished husband in Sex and the City, a Prada runway presence, a Washington winemaker, and an enthusiastic...

Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the third installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix anthology, returned to one of American true crime’s most mythologized figures. Charlie Hunnam plays Ed Gein, the Wisconsin murderer and grave robber whose crimes...

Twenty-five years after Gilmore Girls premiered in 2000, the cast’s careers reveal how unusual the show’s afterlife has become. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel remain inseparable from Lorelai and Rory in popular memory, yet both built substantial work beyond...

Looking back at young photos of Tom Welling is less about early-2000s celebrity nostalgia than about remembering a different phase of superhero culture. Welling became a star as Clark Kent on Smallville, which premiered in 2001 and spent ten...