Relationships

On the deep and universal desire for connection.

Joanna Arnow’s new film mines the comic potential of distance and framing, in an examination of degradations large and small.

In J. J. Kandel’s short film, the lunch-break banter of a flirtatious pair of co-workers, played by Cecily Strong and KeiLyn Durrel Jones, gives way to uncomfortable revelations.

Two years after “Rothaniel,” the comedian has committed another moving—and deeply entertaining—act of self-exposure.

Presenting a battle between two narcissists, played by Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, Todd Haynes’s film misses dramas that don’t fit its schematic.

New chatbots offer friendship, intimacy, and unconditional encouragement. Do they mitigate isolation or exacerbate it?

I was eager to escape my parents. Then they befriended a couple from Belgium, who seemed eager to replace me.

When you trade in the old car, trade me in, too.

I am watched, therefore I am.

When the pandemic came, Becky Wilkes moved her enfeebled mom and dad into her own home. Her series “Till Death Do Us Part” documents that time.

Transference and the contemporary classroom.

Twinship evokes deep anxieties about separation and selfhood. Marriage has a similar effect.

Sometimes, now as parents, we say things and only a while later realize that it was an echo of our parents, from decades before.

A college affair turns coming of age into coming apart.

After Sining Xiang came out to his parents, he decided to dramatize the experience in a short film—and cast his loved ones as themselves.

At the gym? In theory, but that one spandex guy is there today and he’s making wet little groans.

The heart of “Connor’s Wedding,” as the most recent episode is titled, is a protracted phone call from airplane to yacht lounge.

You only stand to lose money, face, and a clean legal record by withholding the hoodie in question.

The HBO series has been stuck in a frustrating loop. Now, with its fourth and final season, the Roy family saga is finding a more generous palette of feeling and situation.

Some recommended titles for those with a better (or worse) half.