Hello! I'm Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. This newsletter is, of course, about movies. But it is also often about movie culture in Los Angeles, which means it is, in a way, about Los Angeles. So I wanted to highlight a recent ..

So Mikael Wood thinks that not only is Justin Timberlake’s new album, “Man of the Woods,” a song-and-dance sham but that his Super Bowl halftime show was also almost completely without merit? [“Super Bowl LII Halftime,” Feb. 5]. Why bash a guy who just wanted to put on a party for the masses? I’m...

Rembrandt's "Self Portrait at the Age of 34" is on loan to the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena from the National Gallery of London. Curator Gloria Williams Sander plays tour guide for a journey across the 1640 canvas.

The "Sex and the City" co-stars are publicly feuding.

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing about 160,000 actors and other performers, is trying a new approach to protect its members from sexual harassment amid a wider reckoning in Hollywood over misconduct. The guild released a code of conduct on Saturday that outlines best practices for the handling...

Darja, an immigrant from Poland who calls the industrial wastelands of New Jersey home, can regularly be found waiting for a bus near the factory where, until it was shut down, she was employed. Chances are you’ve brushed by her at a convenience store or pharmacy and not taken notice. Pallid and...

The Broad exhibition of more than 120 works by one of the greatest living artists is not to be missed, our critic says. Here's his assessment of the show opening Saturday.