Holedown is charming and engrossing, and definitely worth the trip.
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Oculus Go is especially engrossing for watching movies and videos.
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They get loud, with a soundstage that's wide and engrossing.
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Every inch of the Resident Evil 230 remake is engrossing.
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This week's engrossing hour takes a knife to each one.
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It's the best kind of crime show, smart and engrossing.
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Some bad ballets are at least engrossing; these are bores.
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It is an absolutely engrossing experience visually, audibly, and interactively.
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An entertaining and sometimes engrossing mess, but still a mess.
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Instead, it's an engrossing narrative about the complexities of human behavior.
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Their stories are engrossing, heartbreaking, unbelievable at times, and often hilarious.
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Indeed, the engrossing nature of games is itself cause for concern.
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I am not the only one who finds this unexpectedly engrossing.
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It was engrossing and exciting, and now it's moving to Westeros.
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An engrossing memoir of a childhood so different from my own.
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This episode isn't as engrossing and jam packed as last week.
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It's of it's time and place, idiosyncratic, off-kilter, thoroughly engrossing.
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The result is unexpectedly engrossing, infuriatingly addictive, and remarkably self-assured.
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Even on a tiny smartphone screen, this is an engrossing experience.
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The Ellis Deck manages that while still being evocative and engrossing.
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The force and the symbolism of myth pervade Moore's engrossing tale.
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They are transporting, but the piece is equally engrossing in silence.
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Our critic Jennifer Szalai calls "Inseparable" a "contemplative yet engrossing" history.
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But the musical performance of this two-character opera was engrossing.
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It was so engrossing that I read it in a day.
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I disagreed with much of this challenging, interesting and engrossing book.
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There wasn't a more engrossing anecdote about her experience behind the camera?
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Of the apps provided, the games were the most engrossing and promising.
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Smith's elaborate, genre- and format-defying objects could not be more engrossing.
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They're also all engrossing reads, with vivid characters sucked into terrifying circumstances.
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First and foremost, I want to write an exciting, deeply engrossing book.
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Every performance and moment is perfectly calibrated making the show incredibly engrossing.
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I forgave it, because the bigger picture was so alluring, so engrossing.
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Vita remains elusive, but Stapinski weaves together an engrossing set of possibilities.
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It's an engrossing story, but it's long, and we know you're busy.
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If the textual collage isn't particularly engrossing, at least Ms. Brown is.
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Never less than intelligent, the work is, however, more intriguing than engrossing.
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Still, the facade alone was engrossing, so it was hard to leave.
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This week, we published Ryan Bradley's engrossing feature All Queens Must Die.
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The effect is as captivating as the odd-couple narrative is engrossing.
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Particularly engrossing are the handful of commissioned responses to Mr. Shainman's collection.
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Next week Impulse Records will release "Moments Preserved," his engrossing sophomore album.
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Two engrossing self-portraits in charcoal and crayon capture this newfound mysticism.
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The finish would become an engrossing mystery until Ogunbowale hit the winning shot.
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And you can find whimsical and engrossing gameplay on any number of platforms.
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On its own, this would be enough for an engrossing role-playing experience.
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Older's Infomocracy is a tough read, but engrossing once you get into it.
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Second, the couple's 12 hours in town make for less than engrossing material.
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Only some really engrossing, groundbreaking, must-play content can justify this literal headache.
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It's an engrossing spectacle that manages to successfully speak to our reptilian brain.
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The really great thing about Tangle Tower, though, is how engrossing it is.
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Though the strands of this metaphysical story come unraveled, the music is engrossing.
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It all makes for an engrossing setup whose suspense is difficult to resist.
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Grindstone on Apple Arcade combines these two into an incredibly engrossing mobile title.
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Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency.
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The point: Lillard's Revenge instantly became one of the NBA's most engrossing storylines.
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Pamela Rotner Sakamoto's engrossing book opens simultaneously in Los Angeles and Hiroshima on Dec.
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It's part of an engrossing profile on Scalise and the race for House speaker.
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In the world of beauty, there's a fine line between engrossing and just gross.
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So no, you're not just enthralled because of his dark vibe and engrossing eyebrows.
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It's tense and engrossing, plus stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga rock in it.
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This disturbing, engrossing novel will leave you holding your breath until the very end.
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But it's the reactions of characters around Phasma that makes this an engrossing read.
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This is not the case for "Mosaic", which is engrossing, while feeling genuinely innovative.
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Screencaps via Gina Kamentsky's experimental short film Tracheal Shave isn't just engrossing—it's hypnotic.
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It's their parents, particularly Alice, Fred, and F.P. that make this episode so engrossing.
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After a slow start, this engrossing, characteristically nuanced HBO drama mostly serves up aces.
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"Tea Before You Go," with music and story by Aaron Siegel, is also engrossing.
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I gave it another crack a decade or so later and found it engrossing.
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It's as if maybe the full delivery might be too overpowering — an engrossing suggestion.
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The resulting narrative is rich and absorbing — as evocative and engrossing as a novel.
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But he arrived at an engrossing, nearly five-hour collection that sounds entirely new.
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Do you have any suggestions for both divinely engrossing and beautifully written family sagas?
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Nobody worked harder than Balanchine to establish plotless pure-dance choreography as theatrically engrossing.
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The puzzles are complex, the level design is perfect, and the atmosphere is engrossing.
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And the more engrossing the sporting spectacle, the more powerful is that sociopolitical one.
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Some of the night's more engrossing moments came during the four-song acoustic portion.
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The colors alone in this new digital transfer of Fists of Fury are engrossing.
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But this is really a minor criticism to what is a thoroughly engrossing retrospective.
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In any case, King's writing is affecting and engrossing, even as it's egregious and frustrating.
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It is just as engrossing; tech types often spend four hours a day fielding emails.
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This engrossing work of speculative fiction offers some answers—and some more questions, too. Enjoy.
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The objects are playful, satiric, and materially engrossing, but their cumulative effect is undeniably ominous.
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I know Nintendo can make good, engrossing games that the entire family wants to play.
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In 2016, I came across an engrossing webcomic called On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden.
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But as a wholly engrossing, never-flagging work of poetic journalism, it's always worth reading.
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Still, the audience was treated to engrossing highlights from all four parts of the cycle.
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But what might sound trite in someone else's hands is engrossing when Antonoff sings it.
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Alcohol often makes for poor decisions, but it's also responsible for many an engrossing story.
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The New York premiere of Matthew Aucoin's "Evidence" revealed an elusive yet engrossing orchestral piece.
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Ms. Cummings focuses on Jerome, the Manhattan district attorney, in a methodical, but engrossing account.
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His conversation with Adam Nagourney, The New York Times's Los Angeles bureau chief, is engrossing.
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She has made an engrossing, dynamically shot movie that moves with real fluidity and complexity.
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Spectacularly paced and instantly engrossing, HBO's McMillions starts with a tip from an anonymous caller.
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In this quietly engrossing narrative, Dee dishes out food for thought in sly, quotable lines.
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If you ask us, these are all insanely immersive games with engrossing tales to tell.
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His subsequent book, the engrossing read titled Bad Blood, features his interviews with Shultz and others.
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As in real relationships, none of these narrators are perfectly reliable, but they are reliably engrossing.
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The result is an evocation of backstage life that is as engrossing as it is entertaining.
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Axios obtained an advance copy of the book, "American Carnage," which is deeply reported and engrossing.
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A horror-themed puzzle/adventure game featuring live-action performances and an engrossing (if silly) story.
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Zombies launched back in 2009, blending a whimsical sense of humor with absolutely engrossing strategy gameplay.
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While McGinnis' book may defy description, it doesn't defy adjectives: interesting, engrossing, thought-provoking, and haunting.
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Here are some of our most engrossing and memorable profiles of 2016—at least so far.
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A painting by Icelandic artist, Erró, can be as engrossing as a page from Where's Waldo?
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There was actually an engrossing soccer game between England and Russia in the Mediterranean port city.
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The film's high stakes and tense feeling make it engrossing adventure for kids and parents alike.
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In turns muted, enraged, and utterly engrossing, here, they wield that delicacy like a sharpened blade.
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The engrossing chamber opera "Paradise Interrupted" could easily have ended up a clichéd, cross-cultural mess.
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The show is spaciously arranged with thought and elegance, and full of engrossing groupings and pairings.
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Under Mikhaela Mahony's direction, "Dido of Idaho" is hilariously off-kilter and engrossing at the start.
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Made rather than given, these bodies tell an engrossing story about the culture that fashioned them.
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As frustrating as this can be in hindsight, the movie, while it's playing, is unfailingly engrossing.
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It's a bewildering and engrossing record, produced entirely by the legendary LA rapper and beatmaker, Busdriver.
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But Abramovic's engrossing new memoir, "Walk Through Walls," makes us realize how partial our knowledge was.
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But he has continued to make engrossing music, nowadays with a quintet called New Music Inc.
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At times she had the slightly nasal, almost pinched, yet engrossing sound of traditional Chinese vocalists.
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That much is apparent on "Asteroidea," its engrossing debut album of free improvisations, released in October.
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It remains however, an engrossing exploration of art and commerce that deserves far more critical attention.
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But The Act is even more engrossing if you uncover the disturbing familial twists as you go.
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HDR content looks even more engrossing with higher contrast, wider dynamic range, deeper blacks, and whiter whites.
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It's rare to see a truly engrossing horror movie where the twists aren't visible a mile away.
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The most engrossing of all the characters is Sudhindranath Datta, a young, "handsome and quick-witted" Bengali.
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One of the most popular, engrossing journalism longreads of 2015 ran in The New Yorker in July.
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It's not the first workplace chat program, but it is by far the most immersive — and engrossing.
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Underneath its painfully charming exterior lies an engrossing puzzler, one that rewards careful observation above all else.
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Regardless of form or genre, Ray's music has always been engrossing and, at its best, arrestingly beautiful.
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The dynamic between Celeste and Dr. Reisman during the solo session is engrossing for its emotional rawness.
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The world is as lively as you'd hope, but the story behind that world is equally engrossing.
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This could include watching an engrossing movie, writing a novel or working on a piece of software.
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Mr. Allen has made an engrossing and tense documentary, though his insider knowledge is sometimes a hindrance.
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The books I find engrossing now still have the power to make the world around me vanish.
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I usually find that the better and more engrossing the film is, the more jarring the transition.
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Each of those shows is an engrossing, humanizing look at doctors, nurses and patients at different hospitals.
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LIZ GERRING Ms. Gerring's engrossing dances can be coolly restrained or daringly athletic, sometimes both at once.
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Smart, weird, political, engrossing; it's exactly the kind of morally complex story Cousin Joseph would have hated.
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Both are engrossing plots, and when people hear about them, it sparks their interest in visiting Egypt.
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Psychic ability runs in the family in two other engrossing novels, one antic and the other haunting.
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Though some elements in the score seem like miscalculations, "Prisoner" is a dark, seething and engrossing work.
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Rao is a quick and engrossing storyteller, and the novel generally moves along at a good pace.
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This engrossing game leaves a strong impression, and even appeared in Season 3 of House of Cards.
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Breaking Bad, in its engrossing mercilessness, was like watching someone pour boiling water down an ant hole.
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It's incredibly engrossing, wrapping you up in a mystery with all of the requisite twists and turns.
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At 467 minutes, this multi-part documentary is definitely longer than The Irishman, but even more engrossing.
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What makes the story of a missing white girl so newsworthy and engrossing to so many Americans?
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Oh, hey, I mean, it's also a really engrossing and fun game that turned me into a completionist.
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He extended his engrossing, complicated world and cast of amazing characters in 2015's The Providence of Fire.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the most engrossing games I've ever played.
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This engrossing history delves into the story of one of the genre's best-known magazines, Astounding Science Fiction.
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But at other times it's genuinely engrossing, and it's always unexpected, even when the story takes obvious turns.
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But the ongoing worldbuilding of Fortnite, as silly as it can be at times, is also incredibly engrossing.
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Rowan Blanchard and Brie Larson, meanwhile, go in for engrossing memoirs written from a queer and feminist perspective.
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Tatum's music has never been this complicated, and I'm willing to argue it's never been this engrossing either.
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Like Dog Man Star, it is a deeply engrossing, dramatic record designed to hear from beginning to end.
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You have likely considered this after missing your subway stop due to an engrossing round of Two Dots.
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But I've found it completely engrossing thanks to superb writing, Annet Mahendru's moving performance, and strong production design.
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The rest of this engrossing book reads like high-end art history; this section also reads like sports.
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It's a passage that really exemplifies what King does best: instantly engrossing you in the horrific and unknown.
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What Pierce created was timeless; an engrossing, uncompromising, and outright masterpiece that critics have never needed to reassess.
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Assassinations, bioterror plots, and Rolls-Royces abound in brothers Maclain and Chapman Way's engrossing six-part documentary series.
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For a first stab at the documentary genre, Ahmed's work is as engrossing as it is beautifully shot.
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The character Ms. Émond and Ms. Mackay create is not likable, but is puzzling in an engrossing way.
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The doubling imagery, the recurring spiral staircases, and so much else engulfing Chloé make this thriller unusually engrossing.
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Summer is the season for reading something engrossing, and ideally something as fizzy and accessible as pink champagne.
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More complex than we could possibly convey here, this engrossing story demands your attention each and every scene.
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Here's a brief guide to everything you need to know about what makes this hit show so engrossing.
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His new picture, "In Fabric," is his fourth feature and his most impressive, engrossing, imaginatively unchained work yet.
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" More than "engrossing television," he added, it was "important television, a model of what the medium can do.
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David and I settled on the following puzzle, which I think is engrossing and a lot of fun.
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This linearity is echoed by an engrossing timeline of historic events placed at the end of the show.
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And as page turners, they are as engrossing as the works of Stephen King or John le Carré.
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One of these is vastly more engrossing than the other, which makes the overall experience feel a little disjointed.
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Go may not be the endgame, but it's a beguiling, engrossing context for these conversations to be held in.
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But AlphaGo handled the multi-angled assault well to simplify the engrossing game and eventually forced Ke to resign.
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With success in any career path, the job can become all-engrossing, taking over every sphere of your life.
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Such questions are hardly new, but Albertine's willingness to probe them unflinchingly makes her book unpredictable, bracing, and engrossing.
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But if you can make the time (just over two hours), bask in its memorable scenery and engrossing story.
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She and Williams sought an engrossing balance of archival material, Davidmann's pictures and the retelling of her family's story.
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The 3D-printed rendering appears to be less than a foot high, and is arresting but not terribly engrossing.
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Directed by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens, this very funny, engrossing movie couldn't be more mainstream or more delectable.
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James Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times.
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The behind-the-scenes materials can often prove engrossing to fans of Lynch, although the film's presentation is frustrating.
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Art Review WASHINGTON — There's an engrossing confab of a show in session at the National Gallery of Art here.
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He crafts a film that is engrossing from the start, while building to something greater and more emotionally encompassing.
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In the end, "The Wrong Light" is an engrossing cautionary tale teaching one of philanthropy's oldest lessons: Caveat emptor.
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And, as Gerwarth's well-researched and engrossing book makes clear, there was already plenty of flammable material lying about.
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Claire North's 84K (Orbit, paper, $15.99) is a vicious, engrossing portrait of unregulated capitalism carried to its logical conclusion.
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Though the books are short at just a couple of hundred pages apiece, they manage to tell discrete, engrossing adventures.
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These two worlds never fully interact, but Italian director Gianfranco Rosi weaves them together to make a deeply engrossing documentary.
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On one side is the utterly engrossing story and world, which pull you in with gorgeous visuals and haunting sounds.
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Riley's writing is lyrical and engrossing, and it's a fresh new take on the familiar Regency romp to Gretna Green.
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Mr Stein has written "Siren Song", an engrossing memoir, while Mr Fields has published a book of photography, "My Ramones".
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At first, Halprin appeared alone; her occasional slight smile or small gasp unexpectedly added up to an entirely engrossing experience.
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There's something surprisingly engrossing about watching first person footage and seeing your own arms stretch out in front of you.
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Podcasts are perfect for working out because they can be engrossing, and literally all you have to do is listen.
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The Jane Goodall Institute sees the project as a way of engrossing viewers while teaching them at the same time.
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Position yourself for a job in this fun and rewarding career by absorbing this bundle's 45+ hours of engrossing content.
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This week, Riverdale goes full blown gothic horror melodrama in order to create an engrossing tale about dark family secrets.
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In just four years the company has positioned itself as the leading purveyor of the bizarre, engrossing, shocking and creative.
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I always want to find the kind of book that's so engrossing that you don't care how you're reading it.
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Smith's lucid prose, surprising imagery and realistic dialogue, as well as his wonderfully quirky characters, all serve his engrossing storytelling.
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Still, Moyes paints an engrossing picture of life in rural America, and it's easy to root for the enterprising librarians.
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Fortunately, Gabriel lets the political thesis fade as events take over and the immediacy of these lives becomes all-engrossing.
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"Arrival" is an elegant puzzle, an engrossing exercise in problem-solving — for the protagonist, the filmmaker and the viewer alike.
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This engrossing group biography presents them all, and shows how their enthusiasms, political and literary, encapsulated mid-20th-century Britain.
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Saturday's Philharmonic concert opened with an engrossing account of Per Norgard's Symphony No. 8 (2011) in its United States premiere.
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The album closes with "Nighthawk," an engrossing epic that crosses various sonic landscapes over the course of its fourteen minutes.
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It's had its moments of brilliance and certainly its share of detractors, but the company is engrossing all the same.
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This engrossing performance made clear that, for all its scintillating colors and jazzy riffs, modernist complexities run through the score.
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His meandering captions, which add up to an engrossing memoir of a life in fashion, triggered a jump in engagement.
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This is a staggeringly engrossing and effective movie, its settings both beautiful and oppressive, its incidents tense and eye-opening.
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Plenty of thrillers (including those on this list) have had higher stakes, but few are as totally engrossing as this.
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Engrossing, and sometimes enraging, the movie tells of triplets who, after being adopted separately at birth, were reunited by happenstance.
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As engrossing as the film is, just as noteworthy has been the commentary about it, both critical and in praise.
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The resulting book is intimate and engrossing but can also have a claustrophobic, cluttered feel in its thicket of details.
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The story line of "Giselle" is so strong that it can prove just as engrossing with far less prestigious casts.
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Graceful, gracious and, with the exception of a few vamping detours, an engrossing tour through a dense, if troubling, landscape.
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Control's lore is rich and engrossing, and the best way to delve into it is by taking on combat challenges.
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Naturalistic and engrossing, they lure the viewer into the characters' ethical dilemmas, scientific discussions and sexual encounters in real time.
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So while it's entertaining and engrossing and funny and heartwarming, Queen of Katwe isn't about most of its target audience.
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That's the question Corey Ann Haydu ("Rules for Stealing Stars") poses in her engrossing EVENTOWN (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 336 pp.
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Washington's strained relationships with the Afghan and Pakistani governments only exacerbated the problems, Coll writes in his excellent, engrossing account.
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Lighter, freer and a little more conventional than usual, it is Mr. Barney's most engrossing film in over a decade.
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Playing by myself felt like a chore, because almost no part of it is engrossing enough to stand on its own.
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David Foster Wallace's great terror in Infinite Jest was entertainment so engrossing that those consuming it simply stopped doing anything else.
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The Russian sent a forehand service return long on match point to end the engrossing two hour and 41 minute battle.
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I'd been reading Beck Dorey Stein's engrossing memoir, From the Corner of the Oval, out July 10, on my commute home.
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"The Bathtub" is a terrific, engrossing hour because it's the first time our whole crew bands together to destroy the demons.
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He thinks of himself as a supervillain in the vein of Darth Vader, but possesses none of the terrifying, engrossing evil.
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The film takes an engrossing and thoughtful look at a dedicated sushi chef, and also explores the intricacies of Japanese cuisine.
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It's an engrossing portrait of a city — and a country — at an inflection point, and a love letter to Chicago, too.
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Critic's Pick Peter Strickland's fourth feature is a horror story about, yes, a garment, but it's his most engrossing work yet.
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You may know how the story ends, but what makes for such engrossing reading is Mantel's vivid prose and narrative skill.
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"Stand Tall" revisits this journey and more, taking readers deep inside an engrossing narrative that is equal parts inspiration and heartbreak.
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It might not be engrossing, but it will be easy and comforting to consult for some issue-specific advice and relief.
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De Marrais' jarring yet engrossing vocals took the lead on Past Worn Searching, with guitarist Kaia Fischer's complimentary vocals providing support.
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This continually inventive piece, in five movements, lasts just 20 ingenious minutes, every one of them engrossing as played by these artists.
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The clumps of skin (ew, I know) roll together and form bigger clumps that grab smaller clumps and...wow, it's just engrossing.
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Fortunately, Gaiman's novel is just as interesting and engrossing as it was all those years ago when I first picked it up.
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And with its sweeping soundtrack, lovely visuals, simple-yet-engrossing story, and copious turn-based battles, it managed to do just that.
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On the other hand, there was little engrossing about "Perhaps," a collaboration between the composer Reena Esmail and the filmmaker Heather McCalden.
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The stories represent just a slice of China's science fiction community, but it's an engrossing window into a fascinating body of work.
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If you're more TV-inclined, HBO is following up the engrossing Big Little Lies with another show based on a popular book.
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Apart from an engrossing duet revealing the strength and softness of Baidy Ba and Ms. Gomis, this work was meandering and overblown.
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The Harry Potter books and movies introduced us to a world of wizarding wonders that were nearly as engrossing as the plot.
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If you think of a trailer as being an easy-to-thumb-through comic book, "Welcome to Marwen" is an engrossing novel.
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The artwork is high quality, and the storyline is engrossing enough to fold readers right into the 514th chapter of this tale.
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It's not every alto saxophonist's way, but with Ms. Fuller's blend of impeccable straight-ahead-jazz chops and gospelly inflections, it's engrossing.
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In each chapter of this very long but engrossing book, Coll takes a deep dive into some particular facet of the conflict.
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Thus, while engrossing, thanks to its larger-than-life subject, the book misses an opportunity to consummate the promise of its subtitle.
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The details of Alexie's early life, some of which he has rehashed in his many books of fiction and poetry, are engrossing.
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I know a lot of professional film critics found it to be showy or even distracting, but I thought it was engrossing.
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The engrossing Japanese-RPG gameplay overlaid with the rich Miyazaki-esque visuals makes the game feel like a playable Studio Ghibli film.
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But it builds considerable emotional force across its two hours, and its scrupulously researched depictions of 1940s cityscapes and lifestyles are engrossing.
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Vanessa is an engrossing unreliable narrator, and the novel is the latest to explore power, memory and trauma through the #MeToo lens.
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Hulu turned writer Lindy West's memoir Shrill into a biting dramedy and Margaret Atwood's dystopian Handmaid's Tale into an engrossing watercooler show.
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Whatever the psychological connotations, what we see is an engrossing struggle over a dance that must be passed on—but not yet.
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"My mother used to say eating was a way of battling death," recalls the main character, Rosa Sauer, in Postorino's engrossing novel.
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"Milkman," by Anna Burns, an intelligent and thoroughly engrossing novel about a girl who's forced into a relationship with a powerful man.
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The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist's early life, from childhood to film school.
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It's rare to find a short story collection so engrossing that it demands to be read in one sitting, cover to cover.
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How about we are this deep into one of our engrossing conversations and we haven't talked about Ilya Kovalchuk coming back yet?
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While the mix of slowness and surprise can be engrossing enough (close your eyes and dream to the procedural music), there is more.
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Starring Édgar Ramirez, it's an engrossing watch about the divide between desiring political change and doing potentially horrible things to make it happen.
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And while The Staircase remains as engrossing today as when it first aired, it's not meant to be an objective work of journalism.
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The soundstage isn't quite as wide or engrossing as what you'd get from the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless earbuds or Master & Dynamic MW07s.
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And there's certainly much more lurking under the surface of Persona 5, from its sprawling story to its engrossing take on role-playing.
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But a similar effect appears in "Mary Magdalene" (1640s-1650s), the totality of which, though beautiful, is less innately engrossing than the parts.
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The story is engrossing, with a cast of characters that you'll grow exceedingly close to over the game's daunting 100-hour run time.
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All these films were engrossing, beautifully shot and carefully crafted narratives with the depth and finesse that comes with having a gifted director.
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Moving on, you come to the VR Tunnel, which is designed as an engrossing demonstration of everything Samsung's Gear VR headset can do.
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It starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, who skateboard together and grow up together.
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This morning he dropped the video for the track and goddamnit if it isn't every bit as dramatic and engrossing as the track.
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While it's true that audiences rarely leave a musical humming the story, woe betide the show that lacks an engrossing, artfully structured one.
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In one particularly engrossing section, Steffens confronts Carl Colby, a documentary filmmaker who had surprisingly unfettered access to Marley in the mid-seventies.
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Cohen inhabits Luter's existence as vitally as he inhabited the Israeli Army unit: it's a beautiful portrait, utterly engrossing, full of passionate sympathy.
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The writing is both quirky and engrossing, effectively painting a more vivid picture of the Victorian-era underworld than any screenshot ever could.
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By contrast, "The Favourite" (pictured, above) offers an engrossing, and grotesque, portrait of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), the last of the Stuart monarchs.
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Directed by Arin Arbus and starring John Douglas Thompson and Maggie Lacey, these well-acted repertory productions are thoroughly engrossing on their own.
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The upshot is that "Phantom Thread," though expert and engrossing, is also cloistral and sickly, and I found myself fighting for fresh air.
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"Victory" is an engrossing mélange of psychological case study, star-crossed love story, and home-invasion thriller—"Gatsby" meets Mills & Boon and Pinter.
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Like a careful and engrossing stage show in the middle of a parking lot at the start of October, the grunts demand attention.
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Thug's music from 2013 through the end of '15 was, on its face and down to its core, engrossing, exhilarating, and relentlessly innovative.
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Spain's final set of domestic fixtures is bound to be engrossing, exhilarating and altogether euphoric for the teams who come out on top.
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But I was forgetting the devil in Pence and what an engrossing, depressing character study the Indiana governor has turned out to be.
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If you're just looking for a really big, engrossing world to get lost in, then this is also a great show to consider.
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But Mr. Perry is such a good filmmaker that he can make the embarrassing and the unbearable insistently, fascinatingly engrossing (and often funny).
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In "Ego Obscura," the engrossing new video installation that gives this show its title, Mr. Morimura revisits one of his most famous performances.
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Zeitlin has been stretching this classic format since the 1960s, when he first began making engrossing, harmonically striated, propulsive albums for Columbia Records.
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"I would follow Jim Jones anywhere, and I did," says one former member of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple in this engrossing, disturbing documentary.
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Giuseppe Gipali's Manrique seemed small-scale, but Barbara Mantegna (Léonore), Nino Surguladze (Azucena) and Franco Vassallo (Le Comte de Luna) gave engrossing performances.
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"It was January when Susan's patients began to die," Pearson writes in her engrossing book, part med-school memoir, part probing moral inquiry.
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But it will be pain of a different order (possibly involving nausea) from the empathetic kind you experience reading Orwell's ever-engrossing book.
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This technology is at the heart of everything players will see, hear, and feel — delivering much higher fidelity and a more engrossing experience.
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On balance, "User Friendly" is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting.
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This is understandable, but also a loss, as this engrossing production of Janacek's rustic tragedy, first performed in Brno in 1921, made clear.
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Whether or not his agenda is worth the agitation, Blunt is certainly engrossing to watch, if you can see him through the fog.
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Instead of an engrossing puzzle game, it's an inventive RPG that combines elements of YA drama with a fantastical world full of magic.
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The results are engrossing black holes that situate you in moments of crisis and grace in a way that mere words never could.
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The sculptor's rough-hewn and loosely figurative assemblages of plaster, wire, wood, and found materials are instantly engrossing and pulse with inner life.
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But given the film's beautiful photography and engrossing performance from Andrew Garfield, you'd think it would've picked up at least one or two nominations.
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His voice and engrossing guitar wizardry are once again accompanied by the earth-shaking low-end of bassist Aaron Rieseberg and drummer Travis Foster.
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Liar boasts a pair of spectacular performances, an engrossing narrative, and the increasingly rare allure of complete closure at the end of six episodes.
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The reportage is more engrossing than the history, which can occasionally shade into a kind of term-paper gloss on complex events and politics.
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Ruins and Rituals is an engrossing chronicle of a black woman artist from Georgia who did not conform to any expectations of that identity.
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It's engrossing in its understatedness, from the lo-fi drum production (think trash can lids clattering into the abyss) and pulsating strains of melody.
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Titled Space that Never Was, it's an engrossing collection of illustrations that look at what humanity's future could have been in the solar system.
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His life and death are explored in great detail in Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer's engrossing 2009 biography of the player-turned soldier.
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By contrast, the formerly Channel 4, now Netflix, anthology series Black Mirror doles out rich and engrossing concepts each episode like an assembly line.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda has the core appeal of other BioWare games, with plenty of engrossing story, dialog and side-missions to keep you occupied.
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Some readers will lose patience with all the technical details about orbits and spaceflight, but for me, it's an engrossing and thought-provoking story.
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The host, hip-hop dance teacher Samara Atkins, takes the listener on an engrossing and entertaining ride with McGaw, Shepherd, and the episodes' guests.
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The Philharmonic program opened with the premiere of an engrossing 55-minute oratorio by the Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos, conducted dynamically by Daniel Harding.
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In this engrossing scramble of fairy tales, a woman goes berry picking in the forest and becomes lost in a tangle of dark archetypes.
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Markovits delivers an engrossing inquiry into the nature of familiarity: family stories and code words, special places in the old neighborhood, cherished holiday rituals.
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With him on board, the trio were able to deepen their sound, and create something even more streamlined and engrossing than their previous works.
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Sometimes psychotic ideas are engrossing — a patient spent the summer contemplating the nature of substance and sound, and found them ultimately to be indistinguishable.
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In its most engrossing moments, "What Remains," with its eerie landscape of shadows and bodies, merges words and movement with a visceral, pungent force.
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It's a journey that takes you on an ugly tour through a messy, complex post-apocalypse, and it's massively engrossing the whole way through.
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It was a pleasure to hear the accomplishment of Mr. Courville and Mr. Tennekoon; but their vocal characters remained far sketchier and less engrossing.
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"A Lab of One's Own" is an engrossing, exciting tale of uncelebrated scientists who innovated and experimented against a background of grand historical events.
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The show is slow-paced yet strangely engrossing, and it's anchored by a group of hilarious hosts who dissect each episode at various points.
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The show is slow-paced yet strangely engrossing, and it's anchored by a group of hilarious hosts who dissect each episode at various points.
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Steeped in Argentine folklore of lobizonas (werewolves) and brujas (witches), this is such an important story to tell, and it's also an engrossing read.
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Once the main Allegro section started, with the assertive minor-mode main theme, the music had engrossing ambiguity, the mood both rousing and unsettling.
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A percolating episode, played mostly on mallet instruments, prodded the orchestra to synthesize what had happened along the way, as this engrossing piece concluded.
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It may be the title of the track that grabbed Mr. Roberts's attention, but it's how he hears the music that makes "Ode" engrossing.
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The stories are engaging, and some are even engrossing, but Piore seems a bit too admiring of his scientists and indifferent to any concerns.
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Its subject was Sheff's son Nic (called Nick in the article), who had fallen prey to an all-engrossing drug addiction as a teenager.
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Inflighto is a lot like a regular flight tracker (the ones you can watch on your embedded TV screens), but with much more engrossing data.
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But Stepanek, a former top-10 player, was in no mood to go away quietly and the fifth set was an engrossing battle of wits.
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It's everything you could want from a Bazan-led performance—expanding with his engrossing voice, never hurried, emotionally draining without reaching for easy pressure points.
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But the expansive exhibition at the Tate Modern sets out to change this, with 11 engrossing rooms that chart the many facets of her career.
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I'm sitting by the golden light of a fireplace in a stuffed chair, under a blanket, with a warm beverage and engrossing book in hand.
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Treat plays a central role in Barbara Kingsolver's engrossing new novel "Unsheltered", but she is no more an invention than are Woodhull, Darwin and Gray.
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But the four-minute ride itself is so engrossing you never really have time, nor inclination, to realize you're doing anything but flying by yourself.
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So why does Stranger Things' move toward this heavier approach feel so empty, when Harry Potter's slowly building darkness became more engrossing with every book?
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But that doesn't mean it's any less engrossing, or that there's less of a reason to whistle your way through this glorious graveyard of tape.
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Gaitonde and Jojo's connection is the most engrossing, the first of any of his relationships in the show to have palpable chemistry and explicable attraction.
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Watch "Better Life" below and read on for our talk with Storm about what the narrative may mean and the inspirations behind KOTA's engrossing world.
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Quinlan's engrossing and versatile voice—a whisper one moment, a rasp the next—is still the immediate standout, but the structures are more supple now.
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This engrossing biography portrays a writer who, in her hunger for action and in her autobiographical style of reportage, always thrust herself into a story.
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The collection, which ranges from Harriet Tubman's missal to Chuck Berry's red Cadillac, "is a data-packed, engrossing, mood-swinging must-see," our critic writes.
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The end result is both spellbinding and frustrating, a paradox of a book that is simultaneously conscientious and careless, engrossing and digressive, troubling and troublesome.
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Critic's Notebook You hate to give in to national stereotypes, but a pair of recent engrossing European thrillers fulfill certain expectations about their home countries.
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There's the film-noir mystery, glimpsed in tantalizing fragments through the window, and there's the more engrossing, though less explicable, mystery of the witness herself.
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But, he added, other engrossing activities using other parts of the brain, such as number or word activities, may not work, or make things worse.
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Matt Kindt's watercolor-soaked images of the deep sea are incredible and engrossing, and this imaginative mystery really does innovative things with pace and structure.
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She takes her all-consuming voice to new places—soft and holy one second, sneered and terrifying the next, never anything less than completely engrossing.
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You see a black family at the centre of what becomes a massively engrossing story, set centre-stage without their ethnicity somehow defining their characters.
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One of the book's most engrossing moments involves the crisis of having his Rhodes interview scheduled on the same day as the Yale-Harvard game.
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It's a composition that hones in on the different ways electronic sounds can be applied to different genres, which here creates some engrossing post-punk.
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So I'm sticking with a film that has a 100% chance of engrossing me, and a 0% chance of making me think about anything relevant.
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Witnessing these two families as they commingle and clash is an utterly engrossing, often heartbreaking, deeply empathetic experience, not unlike watching a neighbor's house burn.
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To judge from "Advocate," an engrossing, largely pro-Tsemel profile from Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche, the truth may be a little of each.
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Critics Consensus: "A galvanizing glimpse behind the scenes of a pivotal election, 'Knock Down the House' should prove engrossing for viewers of all political persuasions."
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Readers of his engrossing book might be prone to find Chinese spies everywhere, lurking like "deep-water fish" in Chinese communities from Vancouver to Sydney.
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It's possible she found the put-downs, which she's recalled 11 years after the fact in all their glory, as morbidly engrossing as I did.
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This engrossing installment of "Craft in America" profiles quilters working in a variety of traditions, all of whom emphasize the political nature of their discipline.
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She doesn't pretend to possess the explosive answer, and frequently confesses appalled stupefaction, but her book walks us along an engrossing and plausible narrative fuse.
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Sincerity also made for an engrossing song recital given by a cast of stellar soloists at the National Gallery of Art earlier on Thursday evening.
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It's hard to pin it on just a few elements, but the game's engrossing side quests and its consequential, player-driven storyline choices are standouts.
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It's an engrossing timeline that takes the reader from the beginning of the fur trade in the United States to a modern-day mink farm.
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The interviews with Audrie Pott's assailants are difficult to listen to, but engrossing to watch because of the way they're animated to keep them anonymous.
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This entire disturbing familial play is so engrossing that you don't realize Grey's Anatomy's leading lady is missing from the proceedings until the very last scene.
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Not only is Alex Garland's film unsettling, bone-deep creepy, and completely engrossing, it's also about as far from a love story as you can get.
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More things pop up to turn everything upside down, sometimes when you least expect it, and the paths these events send you on are intensely engrossing.
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The simplicity of its aesthetic adds to the mystery of this place, making it engrossing and immersive even though you're essentially just looking at a map.
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This particular idiom of making — assembling nonreferential imagery into meta-pictures that also merely hint at description — manifests in several large, utterly engrossing collages at September.
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Not in real life, of course — I've been playing Spaceplan, a simple but strangely engrossing new sci-fi game that has a curious obsession with spuds.
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It's a franchise known for surreal and engrossing stories, and deep, complex battles — not exactly things free-to-play mobile games are known for doing well.
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His engrossing book follows the fortunes of a handful of teenagers who made it into Football Dreams, perhaps the most ambitious scouting programme in sporting history.
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If a good game can eventually make you forget the outside world, Chronos is even more engrossing, focusing you entirely on a puzzle or boss fight.
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But the adjective could be applied in the most flattering terms to Emanuel Ax's engrossing interpretation of Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall.
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But Carrère is also easy to forgive, because he is such engrossing and charming company—witty, restless, intellectually bold, confessional, shame-proof, simultaneously shallow and deep.
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But beginning with the piercing parable that opens the second act — about whether Judaism, Christianity or Islam is the true faith — the play grows increasingly engrossing.
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That scene between Bernard and Ford is what puts the "sci" in "sci-fi," and it's much more engrossing than the shoot-outs and sex scenes.
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But the authors of this engrossing book follow the pitcher Trevor Bauer as he uses high-speed cameras and radar tracking to hone his physical gifts.
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Children's Books Magic, monsters, pirates, a visual puzzle, circus antics — these engrossing new books offer children all the stimulation they crave without having to plug in.
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These are subtle exchanges, but engrossing nonetheless — a brilliant, succinct depiction of everyday code switching, and it works mainly because Jordan carries it off so well.
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But I trust that Goldblum could make even the investigation of toilet paper utterly engrossing, and I'm ready to mainline this content into my body immediately.
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And if the book is never quite as engrossing or entertaining as it should be, it is at least atmospheric enough to keep one turning pages.
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"James Wright: A Life in Poetry" may be an unexceptional title for Jonathan Blunk's engrossing biography, but it's hard to think of a more fitting one.
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With the world watching, the rescue team was racing against rising floodwaters in what has become one of the most engrossing rescue missions in recent years.
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Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift is an epic page-turner that fuses magical realism and sci-fi together for an utterly engrossing, centuries-spanning Zambian epic.
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All in all, Constant as the Sun does a fairly engrossing job of exploring the fascinating and frustrating mechanics and machinations of "we" on the ground.
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It exists at a crossroads of engrossing and off-putting; it's enticing with its mysteries but can just as easily become so frustrating that it demands breaks.
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Accompanying the tune is an engrossing, and also kind of gross, visualizer Ellis made, inspired by the nail art and slime videos advertised on his Instagram feed.
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But an interesting story alone isn't enough to make for an engrossing movie — and unfortunately, All the Money never quite finds its way toward a compelling point.
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Murray gave it everything he had in the two-hour, 53-minute baseline battle that was compelling viewing throughout an engrossing and pivotal 80-minute second set.
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Bin Jelmood House is the first slavery museum in the Gulf region, and it is by far the most engrossing and informative of the four Msheireb offerings.
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That's precisely the case with The Guilty, an engrossing Danish thriller from first-time feature director Gustav Möller that's playing in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition category.
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It also seems to be just as engrossing, and I am excited to sink more time into it and figure out how to beat that mid-boss.
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The controversy distracts from what is otherwise an engrossing portrait of the existential crisis gripping the news business and its relentless search for new sources of revenue.
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While all three games share the common bond of simple-yet-engrossing puzzle mechanics, this new one hinges all of your play to five discrete short stories.
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Thanks to God of War's addictive combat, engrossing world and story, and its mature take on father-son relationships, it's a huge hit with the public too.
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Interstellar Space (released in 1974)—an engrossing "duet" with drummer Rashied Ali—and Om (released in 1968) are standouts from this period that are worth a listen.
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It's a cover of Rihanna's 2012 mega-ballad "Stay," pulled apart and pared down to nothing more than a piano, some distant strings, and Marshall's engrossing voice.
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Seating everyone in such confined quarters (which Mr. Hamilton has done in other productions) increases the intensity of this engrossing work's wry humor and occasional bloody violence.
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Recorded live at the Armory, this engrossing album features pieces by Berio, Takemitsu, Fauré, Ravel, Albéniz, Liszt, Janacek and Debussy that explore water's miraculous and merciless qualities.
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Slate's podcast Slow Burn, an engrossing dive into the Watergate scandal that eventually prompted President Richard Nixon to resign.
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" Our reporter caught up with the radio host Howard Stern and finds that he is "one of the most deft and engrossing celebrity interviewers in the business.
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The essays in this collection that discuss the work of Bellow, Kafka, Trilling, Malamud, are all shrewd and engrossing and eminently capable of seducing the reader's agreement.
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Netflix and other streaming platforms, for whatever reason, seem to be a place where this sort of contrived melodrama is more engrossing than it might be elsewhere.
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The core design is one of the most engrossing puzzles I've ever played, a blend of risk management, the extrapolation of hidden information, and careful economic planning.
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In that way, the new Shirkers is a kind of punk feminist project — a deeply personal, fabulously engrossing, visually assured bit of first-person creative nonfiction filmmaking.
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Shreve unravels themes of adultery, jealousy, crimes of passion, incest, negligence, loss and guilt, and then manages somehow to knit them all together into an engrossing tale.
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Bookshelf Two journalists, inspired by engrossing yet little-known cases of derring-do, evoke the magic of early 20th-century New York in two new nonfiction books.
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But if you go in real life to see this work, there is a ton of deep blue with tinges of green that makes the work engrossing.
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Searching for recordings by her, I came upon this engrossing video of a wildly staged performance of Britten's song cycle "Les Illuminations" at the 2016 Aldeburgh Festival.
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The result is a superior entertainment, beautifully made and engrossing throughout (and an improvement in nearly every way on the 1984 film directed by George Roy Hill).
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Immediately after Donald Trump was elected president, Sarah Weber started work on "While I fall further and further behind" (2017), a large and engrossing colored pencil drawing.
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Like all tales of war and justice, this five-part documentary has competing narratives, and it teases out some of those perspectives in engrossing and troubling ways.
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It's an engrossing, often moving movie about masculinity as well as the risks, challenges, and obsessions that go along with trying to be the greatest at something.
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In fact, I found myself hoping that David never develops his abilities and becomes a full-fledged superhero, because it's so engrossing to watch his origin story.
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The midseason highlight "ronny/lilly" aired after Game of Thrones' "The Long Night" and with a completely different but equally engrossing fight (plus: we could see it!).
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There I was, the billionth person on earth to try out anime, only just finding out that the deeply weird can also be deeply engrossing and compelling.
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Despite launching in the shadow of Nintendo's latest Zelda adventure, Horizon: Zero Dawn has found an audience among fans of thought-provoking sci-fi and engrossing gameplay.
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For the artists, architects and writers in this absolutely engrossing book, the "year without a summer" two centuries ago offers cultural antecedents for our present climate crisis.
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This peripatetic but thoroughly engrossing survey reveals an artist who has operated for more than 30 years in the gap defined by feminism, painting and popular culture.
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This peripatetic but thoroughly engrossing survey reveals an artist who has operated for more than 2592 years in the gap defined by feminism, painting and popular culture.
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In 2014, the Sweden-based studio debuted Wolfenstein: The New Order, a sharp series revival that paired the original game's fast, twitchy action with an engrossing story.
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Qiao and Bin's problems might not have amounted to a hill of beans were it not for the engrossing and empathic efforts of Jia's two lead actors.
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Years from now, someone will produce an engrossing documentary that attempts to describe just how unimaginably awful the Cleveland Cavaliers played defense during the 2018-19 season.
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While "Arcade/Arcadia," at the front of the gallery, is indeed a showstopper, the rest of Harvey's innovative, eclectic, and refreshingly large-minded show is altogether engrossing.
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Years from now, someone will produce an engrossing documentary that attempts to describe just how unimaginably awful the Cleveland Cavaliers played defense during the 463-19 season.
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Mr. Hart is a slow burner with no particular interest in clean resolution, and he's long produced engrossing work as a bandleader who lives by those principles.
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Instead, it's an engrossing tale about a family, long separated by geography, who discover their own internal topography is being subtly readjusted in the face of tragedy.
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That said, Mr Stubbs's work is a magnificent achievement and an engrossing read that will surely represent the last word on his subject for many years to come.
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The company took viewers behind the scenes of the making of our current, mystical bath-and-body obsession, and the video is so engrossing, we can't look away.
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Click here to view original GIFData visualization artist Neil Halloran has a knack for turning incomprehensibly large and complex data sets into content that's both coherent and engrossing.
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The highlight is "Bungl (Like a Ghost)" with Jenny Hval, whose creepy poetry is so engrossing that the plinking synthesizers have to fall back into a supporting role.
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The most engrossing galleries of "The Last Knight" look at these grand tournaments, which were nothing less than performance art five centuries before the genre got its name.
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It is very difficult to eat anything while watching this movie, and it's also very difficult to think about anything else because the film's so engrossing and nightmarish.
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Instead, it's an engrossing tale about a family, long separated by geography, who discover that their own internal topography is being subtly readjusted in the face of tragedy.
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The magic of the movies is extravagantly on display in "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," writer/director Rian Johnson's epic, entertaining, engrossing, invigorating, and politically conscious new sequel.
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It makes sense that binge-watching can evoke this empty feeling: Engrossing dramas like the immensely popular Netflix series House of Cards offer a reliable form of escape.
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Season 2 of Netflix's engrossing, imaginative Pablo Escobar drama does require having seen Season 1 — but you don't need to rewatch to prepare; you'll remember everything just fine.
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MARGARET LYONS I just watched all of Netflix's community-college football doc "Last Chance U," and I loved it and found it engrossing, informative, complicated and often surprising.
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"Oslo," an engrossing drama about a key chapter in the long and largely unsuccessful history of efforts to broker Middle East peace, will transfer to Broadway next spring.
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" The man who makes the remark, on the first page of Emma Donoghue's engrossing novel, is the driver of an uncomfortable horse-drawn wagon called a "jaunting car.
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While a little wan, the linear entanglements are elegantly engrossing, and their layering and sampling of existing images are two key strategies of painting since the early 1970s.
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" The question of why video games are so engrossing — O.K., even addictive — forms the DNA of "Death by Video Game: Danger, Pleasure, and Obsession on the Virtual Frontline.
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Adam Winkler, a professor at the law school at the University of California Los Angeles, has nonetheless managed to produce a work that is both engrossing and surprising.
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There's enough going on in every scene that even when the pacing is slow, Age of Resistance is still engrossing to look at, a visual and technical marvel.
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It's an engrossing read, a fresh perspective on the power of an education, and it's also a testament to the way grit and resilience can shape our lives.
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Each member of the family has his or her own engrossing story, and this time, refreshingly, Sam and his autism aren't portrayed as the source of their misery.
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This memoir is "graceful, gracious and, with the exception of a few vamping detours, an engrossing tour through a dense, if troubling, landscape," writes our reviewer, Alexandra Styron.
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"I wasn't supposed to be a software engineer," she writes in "Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber," her sharp and engrossing memoir.
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But the show is an engrossing study of modern Japanese culture and human character, as participants navigate tense relationships within the house and their fame on social media.
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Building a complex world that's still rife with the cruelties of the real one we all inhabit, Jemisin's book serves as an engrossing warning sign for our future.
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Brimming with drama, insight, and unexpected humor, Trailblazer recounts a unique life story, offering readers not just an engrossing journey but also the wisdom of an exceptional leader.
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He raps in a way that's so engrossing that you become personally invested in the situations he describes, and his bars are intricate and endlessly entertaining to untangle.
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This engrossing set consists of four previously unreleased concerts from an Italian tour in 1996, the last of his solo tours to adhere to a similarly sprawling format.
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Director Kevin Macdonald's Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang takes an engrossing and informative look at the work of Guo-Qiang over the last few years.
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While low level play looks like just about any of the era's wrestling games, watching real competitors go at in in Def Jam: Fight for NY is engrossing.
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Yep, it's basically the two things I loved as a kid, Transformers and the scaly side of prehistory, smashed into each other before an engrossing sci-fi setting. Brilliant.
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Engrossing myself in a narrative that I can start, stop, and look away from at any time grounds me when I feel like I'm losing control of my own.
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On Wednesday, Pannick and the bench engaged in an engrossing, back-and-forth game of legal tennis over the 2015 referendum act and the effect it has in law.
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The book he has produced is as engrossing as it is disturbing, using an understated style to take the reader through the complex and sensational case with great clarity.
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As further instalments in the series continued pushing the technological capabilities of each new Nintendo console, "Zelda" came to be especially celebrated for its engrossing plots and ingenious puzzles.
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While you wait for it to be over, enjoy one of the several "Damn, Daniel" remixes that have cropped up: That was weird and also oddly sort of engrossing.
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But thanks to a twist fairly early on, which I won't spoil here, Dragon Quest XI manages to (mostly) stave off cliche and offer up a surprisingly engrossing story.
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Nevertheless How Art Made Pop is an erudite and thoroughly engrossing book on a cultural exchange that played a pivotal role in creating pop culture as we know it.
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Metanet Software's magnum opus was endlessly engrossing when released on the PS4 three years ago, and its freeform structure and bite-sized stages work even better in portable form.
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Alternately touching, hilarious, and extremely relatable, his performance hits an empathetic sweet spot that counts as one of the most fascinating and emotionally engrossing performances on television right now.
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Selmers has one of the roughest backstories of anybody, while Bea's obligation to take care of her family and family's business is completely engrossing every part of her being.
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The Madrid Open started the rivalry, with the Caja Magica witnessing an engrossing semi-final in 2009 lasting over four hours which Nadal won after saving three match points.
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The most sustained and engrossing chapter is largely devoted to Leonardo's water studies—vortices, floods, cloud formation—and depends on one of the remaining complete notebooks, the Codex Leicester.
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Powerful performances keep things from feeling too slick, and if you're looking for an engrossing, non-fluff show to carry you through until fall, this is a good bet.
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The case is engrossing, complete with Vichy flashbacks, but the most fun are the scenes where Aimée meets her future partners and acquires Miles Davis, her beloved bichon frisé.
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If you're looking for an engrossing RPG that will take hundreds of hours to finish, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Game of the Year Edition will be 60% off.
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At New York Live Arts, Ms. Miller will share the evening with Susan Rethorst, whose engrossing 2012 book "A Choreographic Mind" illuminated how her slippery dances spring to life.
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I don't know if it's that I'm creating new neural pathways, or if engrossing myself in something new and difficult just makes it hard to think of anything else.
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Pictorial space is profoundly indeterminate in these layered, utterly engrossing works, shifting wildly in response to local conditions such as lighting, whether direct or ambient, and the viewer's movement.
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Beguiling and human describe the rest of "The Other Side," which is often as visually expressive and narratively engrossing as the faux art film is visually florid yet stultifying.
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At the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, performances by Mia Habib and Ligia Lewis stood out for their engrossing contributions to the ever-evolving medium.
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Instead, it crafts an engrossing tale about a family, long-separated by geography, who discovers that its own internal topography is being subtly readjusted in the face of tragedy.
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Museums & Galleries This peripatetic but thoroughly engrossing survey reveals an artist who has operated for more than 30 years in the gap defined by feminism, painting and popular culture.
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Short and engrossing, Flannelwood is well worth the read for poets, book nerds, queer folks, and anyone who rejects the notion that a disability needs to be a problem.
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Instead, it crafts an engrossing tale about a family, long separated by geography, who discovers that their own internal topography is being subtly readjusted in the face of tragedy.
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Its awe-inspiring spectacle made it the biggest show on television, but it also distanced the series from what made it so addictive and engrossing in the first place.
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In the Company of Others This isn't exactly the happiest of books, but Kameron Hurley's standalone space opera is a bold, engrossing read that made our 2017 best novels list.
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The movie is engrossing, with Sevigny delivering a fierce performance that inspires empathy in spite of — or perhaps because of — the awful things the audience knows Lizzie will eventually do.
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I get home and make the same salad as last night, then curl up on my couch to finish a Gillian Flynn novel I find equal parts terrifying and engrossing.
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The kind of deep, engrossing role-playing that the series is known for doesn't typically work well on mobile, especially when you add in the wrinkle of free-to-play.
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Yet, as Claire Harman writes in her compact and engrossing account of his death and its aftermath, on that spring night "mayhem and murder" came to a quiet Mayfair street.
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The first I attended was about acoustic treatments for studios; surprisingly, it turned out to be much more engrossing than any talk I'd sat through during my times attending SXSW.
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The Californian has set himself on fire, teamed up with Kanye, and released two brilliantly shot, thoroughly engrossing videos in the lead up to the release of fourth full-length.
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The first installment of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's anthology series American Crime Story was a dark, engrossing, and detailed character study centered on the 1995 trial of O.J. Simpson.
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It's nice to see the Hogwarts grounds again, and the school serves as a setting for a series of flashbacks so engrossing, I wished they could've been the whole movie.
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The included games provided a decent amount of fun, but they weren't engrossing the way even simple demos like the 3D painting demo I tried with the HTC Vive was.
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The most engrossing parts involve scouring leagues around the world in the hope of finding underpriced talent or a sixteen-year-old prospect who might become the next Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Of all the programs cited, the most engrossing is "Cold Blooded," perhaps because it has more on its mind than the typical who or even why aspects of the crime.
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On the mostly a cappella round of "Wavering Lines," his voice was engrossing, but on the bright "Coming Through," featuring Cat Power, Willis was too clean and carefree—not himself.
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And frankly, a trans teen playing Moritz — a character whose fascination with sex and sexuality becomes his downfall — is an engrossing, complex idea that nonetheless gets zero room to breathe.
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"They Remain," directed, edited and scripted by Philip Gelatt, from a short story by Laird Barron, shows that it's possible to a make an engrossing genre piece on limited resources.
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Tim Williams: I found this book engrossing, but I did have some nitpicks: I don't think all the characters get the full empathetic profile treatment Brodesser-Akner is known for.
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The result is an engrossing drama that skillfully avoids preaching or propagandizing — although a melodramatic twist that comes at the very end of the evening somewhat undercuts the play's credibility.
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" Our reviewer called this book "engrossing" and writes, "Berman vividly shows that the power to define the scope of voting rights in America has shifted from Congress to the courts.
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Mr. Linhart's engrossing performance of the Dino Valenti song "Get Together" inspired another key musician on the scene, Jesse Colin Young, to record that song with his group, the Youngbloods.
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It was another engrossing week of congressional hearings in the House impeachment inquiry as the second slate of witness testimony elicited shock and awe from politicians and the public alike.
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Superbly acted by an ensemble cast -- especially Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams -- "Spotlight" spins an engrossing real-life story while extolling the old-fashioned virtues of civic-minded journalism. 5.
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While this approach makes for an engrossing and powerfully disturbing reading experience, it obscures Sigourney as a character, and occasionally makes it difficult to reconcile her voice with her behavior.
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The discussions of rights and costs and paper stock are pretty engrossing, but a lot less poignant than the personal exploration of what, if anything, can transcend death and loss.
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The book is an engrossing read, rich in detail and visceral in its action as Tracker encounters trolls, vampires, demons, and witches as well as his strange companions and horrifying adversaries.
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It's an engrossing story, full of great character drama, as the doctor struggles with what he's going to do, and as the context for these events becomes more and more apparent.
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There's ample separation between vocals and instruments and an engrossing depth to the soundstage — even if it's not as wide or detailed as non-noise-canceling headphones at this price point.
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He first became famous for his "new journalism," an immersive approach to reporting that produced engrossing accounts of the 1960s counterculture, the US space program, architecture and art, among other topics.
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One night, game designer Mike Bithell and a friend went out to see a largely forgettable action movie, and afterward the conversation shifted to what, exactly, made John Wick so engrossing.
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Of course, an arcade isn't the ideal environment to sit down and grind out dozens of hours of engrossing menu-based battles, let alone a VR arcade where time is limited.
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The game offers an engrossing romp across a fictional Australia, spanning beaches, urban roads, jungle mud, and plenty more, and the vivid colors and brilliant cars just pop off the screen.
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What started out as a scandal quickly became an engrossing story line and a pleasing snack food following a season dominated by the heavy indigestion of Ray Rice and domestic violence.
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It would need more characters actually doing things, though, as in Richard Nelson's engrossing "Nikolai and the Others," a play also focused on the creation of art, in that case Balanchine's.
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As you might expect, this leads to a good hour and a half of engrossing panic, but Farhadi is less interested in plot twists than in the psychological revelations they precipitate.
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The whole series is visually beautiful and fantastically produced, and the genuine natural drama that arises here — and in other episodes that follow lions, tigers, wolves and penguins — is completely engrossing.
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It's a book that was difficult to keep in my head when I left it, but utterly engrossing while I read — and, unlike "Traitor," it ends on a fascinating cliff-hanger.
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Now Nadeem Aslam's powerful and engrossing fifth novel, "The Golden Legend," introduces us to a world that may at first seem to be a dire and distorted version of our own.
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Based on the real-life originators of the genre, this novel is engrossing and inspiring and perfect for postmodern and overly knowledgable superhero fans and ripe for a small-screen adaptation.
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"The Girl With All the Gifts," directed by Colm McCarthy, is a moderately engrossing, reliably gory British variation on the tried-and-true zombie-apocalypse theme with a first-rate cast.
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Shirley is a thoroughly engrossing, sometimes disorienting tale that plays out like a mystery, the kind where you're never quite sure where reality ends and delusion (or maybe the truth) begins.
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This raw, engrossing work looks back at the deadly 1985 incident when Philadelphia police, following several fractious standoffs, dropped bombs on a rowhouse that housed Move, a group of black separatists.
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But these simulations have become so expansive, intricate and immersive that they can no longer be labeled mere entertainment, no more engrossing than an in-flight movie or a pop song.
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This engrossing, intricately structured drama traces the improbable career trajectory of Harvey Milk, who, as a San Francisco city supervisor, was the first openly gay politician to be elected in California.
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It's one of the most engrossing subreddits we've ever come across—find out how matches are made, or how internet cables are laid, or how much CO2 we're releasing, in seconds.
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The result is an equally dense, engrossing look into the next phase for Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, the two men convicted -- under questionable circumstances -- in the murder of Teresa Halbach.
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Gergel, a United States district judge in South Carolina who presided in the Dylann Roof trial in 19653, has written an engrossing history, animated by the stories of several key characters.
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Similarly, as the choice of venue hints at, the virtual environments in this project were more than just entertainment pieces to gaze over; the work was navigable, explorable, and fully engrossing.
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And "The Soviet Division" was such an engrossing finale overall — sort of the opposite of season four's less immediately gripping "Persona Non Grata" — that I let it slide all the same.
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Posh and utterly engrossing, You Must Remember This has made a name for itself based on host Karina Longworth's intimate season-long explorations into the lives and legends of Old Hollywood.
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Plus, there's something morbidly engrossing about Neanderthals butchering hominin bones in a cave thousands of years ago — and that perverse fascination is what drew Cole into studying this in the first place.
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To really sell the idea that you're visiting an alien world requires, well, people that inhabit that alien world, and Pandora's population is one of the most engrossing aspects of the park.
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That record looked in severe peril on Tuesday, however, as he became embroiled in an engrossing battle of wits with Czech qualifier Radek Stepanek, at 22013 the oldest man in the draw.
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But, in her interactions with the Gen Z set in particular, Groskopf has noticed a few things that make them stand out and, in turn, make them particularly engrossing subjects to shoot.
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Seasons: 1 Episodes: 6 This new baking show has it all: spooky but cute puppets, delicious sweets, and unlike any cooking show, an engrossing plot that spans the entire six-episode season.
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While the story takes several engrossing twists and unexpected turns, the project labors at times under its complexity, lacking the clear "Steve Avery: Innocent or guilty?" through line that its forerunner possessed.
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The second is the sort of immersion that a really engrossing role-playing game like Fallout can induce: the knowledge that you could lose a whole weekend to it without even noticing.
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Once friends, now prospective enemies — the tale of Takefusa Kubo and Ansu Fati has only just begun, but it's one that could develop into the most engrossing stories of the modern era.
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What results is a book more engrossing than any soap — a book that pays deep and solemn attention to the link between a woman's body and heart, and her sense of self.
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As such, true crime stories go beyond the invented nature of even the best horror movies or most engrossing sci-fi tv shows because they show us what we're really capable of.
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The opera's engrossing mix of bleak humor and Kafkaesque confusion starts in the opening scene, when Michel (the tenor Aaron Blake) encounters a young boy who accuses him of making things up.
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Director Denis Villeneuve's chilly and beautiful first-contact story is one of just a handful of films to replicate, or at least approximate, the experience of reading an engrossing science fiction short.
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This is an engrossing story, which Wood tells with a mastery of detail and a modern plainness of expression that makes a refreshing contrast with the 18th-century locutions of his subjects.
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This year, amidst a strong calendar of diverse performances, two pieces, ALL – a physical poem of protest and Water Will (in Melody), stood out as engrossing contributions to the ever-evolving medium.
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Springing from a New York Times Modern Love column, Calhoun's memoir reads like a series of light and funny essays, formed from original, engrossing anecdotes interspersed with somewhat more predictable life lessons.
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He was a downtown type if ever there was one, as is made clear in Judith E. Stein's engrossing 2016 biography, but Green Gallery was firmly in the business of doing business.
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The brothers' bet is that, if they get enough details right, and create a vivid enough character, we will find this world as engrossing as they do—and maybe as lovable, too.
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In 2001, as a researcher studying the neuroscience of vision, he spent $800,000 building the Cave into an immersive, sense-engrossing environment for analyzing real behavior, incorporating gigantic projection systems and mirrors.
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The closing event, at National Sawdust on March 15, includes the debut of Mr. Harrison's eight-guitar Resophonic Guitar Orchestra, as well as Dither, a studious, engrossing band of four guitars. (alternativeguitarsummit.com)
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There's nothing so intimately devastating as the Red Wedding or Ned Stark's execution, nothing so lovely as Arya laughing at bad news, nothing so engrossing as Brienne and Jaime in the bath.
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Where to stream it: Netflix Selma director Ava DuVernay went the documentary route with 13th, an engrossing Netflix doc that illustrates the rampant racial inequality that has long dominated the American prison system.
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Each High Maintenance entry varies a bit in terms of tone and humor (or sometimes lack thereof), but as a whole, it functions as an engrossing, easily digestible anthology of modern New Yorkers.
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The moment when Kattrin defies her mother and begins beating a drum to warn a nearby town of an imminent attack brings this entirely engrossing production to a hair-raising, then heartbreaking climax.
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The program, a particularly engrossing installment of the series, portrays Garfield as the John F. Kennedy of his century — a president who embodied a lot of hopes and potential that were never realized.
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Mr. Paxton, whom I also began to watch in the 1980s, is most famous for inventing contact improvisation (a genre that has always been far more engrossing when he's one of the participants).
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The book is an engrossing, true story of discovery, adventure, science, and mysticism, told by a man who was driven to explain something impossible, and is now on a quest to preserve it.
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Describing what makes Persona 5 so good — the engrossing mix of bonding with its teenage heroes, and spending your nights saving the world — often sounds pretty similar to previous games in the series.
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The engrossing "Buried Alive," by the gifted young composer Jeff Myers and the librettist Quincy Long, was inspired by Poe's "The Premature Burial," about a New York painter haunted by visions of death.
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"Vet U" is engrossing and educational, with only a few contrivances — there's no way that group of people goes out for beers together, sorry — that luckily don't ruin the rest of the show.
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Since the story's inception, millions of readers have clung onto every last panel, text conversation, Flash animation, and interactive game that made Homestuck the unique, strange, and utterly engrossing subcultural phenomenon it was.
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"You Get What You Need," the seventh and final installment of HBO's Big Little Lies miniseries, is profoundly gripping, arguably one of the most engrossing and uncomfortable TV episodes of this young year.
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Directed by stop-motion artist Hayley Morris, it's as intricate and engrossing as the track itself, shifting from image to image—a hand, a deer, the nervous system—without ever disorienting the viewer.
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But the director Sam Gold and the writer and showrunner Sarah Treem constructed an episode so engrossing, and then so disturbing, that I could barely bring myself to face it when it happened.
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So is Edvard Munch, whose 22010 self-portrait with a skeletal forearm seems to have inspired a small, engrossing painting here that depicts a mauve-skinned nun framed by a quartet of bones.
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With its galloping pace and strange criminal bedfellows, this funny and engrossing film sometimes feels like the droll capers of the Ealing studio (maker of "The Lavender Hill Mob" among other small classics).
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He opens the book, for example, with an engrossing dinner conversation that included Bannon and Roger Ailes, the former Fox News president, shortly before the inauguration, offering sentence after sentence of verbatim quotations.
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The series's most engrossing sequence recounts the infamous 2004 encounter in the hospital room of the attorney general John Ashcroft, when administration members tried unsuccessfully to get Ashcroft to renew the surveillance program.
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Joshua Kurlantzick's engrossing book, "A Great Place to Have a War," titled after one old C.I.A. hand's sardonic remark, is a sobering account of the American engagement in Laos and timely reading today.
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Hilary Mantel's highly acclaimed novels about the rise of Thomas Cromwell under the reign of King Henry VIII aren't fantasy, but they are engrossing historical novels filled with medieval politics and Machiavellian maneuvers.
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Told through the readings of original letters (through the voices of Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and more, no less), what emerges is an engrossing spectacle of human failures, a fall of the highest order.
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One of the most extraordinary films of 2018 was Minding the Gap, which starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, who skateboard and grow up together.
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But her new book The Witch Elm — a richly engrossing mystery, and her first novel that doesn't take place within the Dublin Murder Squad series — is about systemic social power more broadly, about privilege.
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What is particularly enigmatic, and engrossing, about this work is the way de la Torre's mode of address functions as a surface that attempts to put the reader/job-seeker/artist into a trance.
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These jarring turns in subject matter yield a graphic novel that is hyperactive — but ultimately triumphant — in its ambition, making for an engrossing read at any given time regardless of its style or setting.
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This is a film with almost no dialogue, and shots that are held for minutes at a time, but it was the one of the most engrossing experiences I've ever had in a theater.
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But much like Brand New, the Hotelier have jettisoned the potent, externalized anguish of early adulthood that pervaded their beloved previous record for a much longer, engrossing, and mature expression of incapacitating spiritual yearning.
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That fourth item may be well worn only in Jewish literature, but be warned: Emily Barton's latest novel, "The Book of Esther," mashes up all four in an imaginative, engrossing and entertaining storytelling tapestry.
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By the end of this engrossing comedy-drama, which opened on Thursday at Playwrights Horizons, deep fissures within the family have been exposed, fresh wounds are rubbed raw and long-buried secrets are unearthed.
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"What the F" delivers on the surprise promised by its title, as what seems like a book about language taboos turns out to be a cognitive scientist's sneaky — charming, consistently engrossing — introduction to linguistics.
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David D. Kirkpatrick's engrossing account of his time as the New York Times Cairo bureau chief covering the Egyptian revolution, "Into the Hands of the Soldiers," is a less uplifting but more instructive tale.
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Large installations, including an engrossing effort from the Los Angeles-based artist Kaari Upson that probes the psychological pressures of housing through urethane casts of furniture and cuckoo video performances, have ample breathing room.
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And although Ms. Kael praised those things in her review, she said the "pulpy suspense plot" was not engrossing, that the voice-overs were "ludicrous" and that Mr. Scott was no good at dialogue.
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Museums & Galleries This peripatetic but thoroughly engrossing survey, which closes on May 25, reveals an artist who has operated for more than 33 years in the gap defined by feminism, painting and popular culture.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, already in the possession of one such painting, has beckoned others like it from around the world and installed them in a small but engrossing show, Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes.
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It has become the world's second-largest publishing market after the United States, according to the International Publishers Association, as an increasingly educated and affluent country looks for something engrossing to curl up with.
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In fact, he's only been nominated twice since the year 2000, and this year was no exception, despite Bridge of Spies being a deeply engrossing tale of an American lawyer conscripted into Cold War subterfuge.
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Mr. Ripstein's hallucinatory, deliberate style is engrossing, and "Bleak Street" is full of strange, vivid images and scenes, especially when the twins are together, practicing wrestling moves or musing on the demands of their craft.
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Mr. Varjon offered an engrossing performance of Schumann's Fantasy in C, a love letter to Clara Wieck, his future bride and a mesh of the composer's alter egos, the dreamy Eusebius and the fiery Florestan.
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One of the most extraordinary films of the year is Minding the Gap, which starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, who skateboard and grow up together.
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But once you get the hang of things, it's engrossing: the complexities and quirks eventually become second nature, and you realize there's a depth to the game that's a lot of fun to delve into.
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"Not since The Thin Blue Line has there been a true crime documentary as engrossing – and provocative – as Making a Murderer," Harper Senior Vice President and Executive Editor David Hirshey said in the press release.
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Which brings us to "Laura Poitras: Astro Noise," at the Whitney Museum of American Art, an engrossing solo show by an artist best known for three remarkable films documenting the United States government's post-Sept.
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Dead Cells manages to evoke the same feelings I used to get when I played Dracula's Cure and Symphony of the Night, but it still offers its own distinct and engrossing take on the genre.
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Stereotypes of violence Rondinone found the movie "engrossing," chock-a-block with complexities, nuance and references to parse, but agrees that at the same time it perpetuates the stereotype of violence in mentally ill people.
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Chronicling a season at a small family-owned brewery, Erik Shirai's "The Birth of Sake" is an engrossing introduction to the traditional cultivation of the rice-based alcohol that is part of Japan's cultural heritage.
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Part of what makes this documentary so engrossing is how seductively it spotlights not only the draw of the superstar himself but the way in which his entire selfhood was warped by post-racial hooey.
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While I found the game's melodramatic premise engrossing, the lackluster ending I received felt unsatisfying, especially given pre-release commercials in Japan had featured interviews with real couples, asking their thoughts on love and marriage.
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Such a comprehensive project could have easily sprawled across a book twice as long, but 'Patriot Number One' stays close to the people it follows, in a narrative as evocative and engrossing as a novel.
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Such a comprehensive project could have easily sprawled across a book twice as long, but "Patriot Number One" stays close to the people it follows, in a narrative as evocative and engrossing as a novel.
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He has grown attached to the Mets' broadcast team of Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen and has found the team's penchant for colossal setbacks more engrossing than the usual achievements of the Yankees.
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The play has a slight surreality, toggling between the plight of these likable, bickering cousins (Abbi Hawk and Thomas Muccioli) and the more serene storytelling of a character named Grandma (the quietly engrossing Donna Couteau).
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The iPad has its redemptive moments — most notably a sobering and engrossing timeline of surveillance that ranges from spies in ancient Egypt to the surveillance architecture of the panopticon to fingerprinting, and on and on.
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On vacation, I like books that are dark and engrossing, like "All Quiet on the Western Front" or Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," because the beach makes me feel too content and I don't like it.
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None of this would be too interesting if Ms. Schutz's way with paint, like her way with images and details, were not so engrossing and perplexing, and did not provide so much to work with.
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"The Unwanted Population," Ms. Chung's solo show at Tyler Rollins, is an engrossing survey of work she's produced over the past few years combining factual material (news reports, archival photographs, interviews) and fine-grained aesthetics.
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Mungiu returned to Cannes in 2012 to premiere the engrossing Beyond the Hills, a film about a pair of estranged former lovers from the same orphanage who meet again at a convent, with devastating consequences.
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"It's a wonderfully engrossing family story that gives us insights into a group we don't really know much about, even those of us who are observant Jews," said Lisa Kleinman, a marketing consultant in Brooklyn.
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One of the most extraordinary films of the year is Minding the Gap, which starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, as they skateboard and grow up together.
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In the BBC's engrossing new adaptation of Christie's The A.B.C. Murders, which just landed to Amazon Prime Video on February 1, Poirot (John Malkovitch) has gone gray and lost a bit of his joie de vivre.
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The Blade Runner sequel was engrossing to look at, and, if the theater you saw it in had the volume amped up high enough, to be thundered at in the gut by its formidable sonic architecture.
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Game of Thrones sure wasn't perfect, but watching See in its wake offers an important reminder: A big budget (reportedly around $15 million per episode) and Jason Momoa's grizzled looks do not an engrossing show make.
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In this unnerving but utterly engrossing memoir, Piper Weiss examines the complicated feelings she has toward her former mentor and tennis instructor, a man later revealed to be a sexual predator with his own torture chamber.
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It featured a distinctive pixel art style coupled with a dark, foreboding soundtrack and simple-yet-engrossing gameplay that brought together elements of point-and-click games and classic fantasy adventures like The Legend of Zelda.
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Guerrilla Games has nailed the creation of a brand new fictional world, which is no easy feat when it's a brand new property, and the game is as large and engrossing as is Horizon Zero Dawn.
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The new series doesn't quite rise to that level, but it does become more engrossing over the episodes previewed -- reveling in the darkly comic discomfort, in one noteworthy example, of the most awkward Thanksgiving dinner imaginable.
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Holter's always been fascinated by acoustics and their imperfections—her first release, Live Recordings, is an engrossing mash of the synthetic and organic, songs played loudly in a room next door with radio transmissions butting in.
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In case you wanted something engrossing to keep you distracted from family squabbles this holiday, a special gift just arrived: Civilization VI, which is now available as a $30 purchase for iPad via the App Store.
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Some drawings served as preparatory works for paintings, and this show includes several engrossing sheets covered with seven to 10 drawings apiece, as Mr. Thiebaud varied the count of pie slices or the placement of lipsticks.
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On The Organist, presented by McSweeney's and KCRW, host Andrew Leland offers engrossing reports on art and culture, including what it's like to be born into a family business that is an ephemeral, inhabitable art project.
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The series's second two hours — which cover subjects like the Jim Crow system, the Ku Klux Klan, W.E.B. DuBois, the creation of the N.A.A.C.P. and the ascendance of black popular culture — are engrossing but less urgent.
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But that would mean less time immersed in this nimble series, which both offers an engrossing 19th-century comedy of social mores and upends (as they didn't say in 1832) the heteronormative assumptions of such stories.
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Afterward, So Percussion reassembled at the Kaplan Penthouse for one of the popular "A Little Night Music" concerts, presenting an engrossing and entertaining program of wildly inventive pieces by John Cage, Caroline Shaw and Viet Cuong.
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That's one of the main lessons of "Beaten Down, Worked Up," the engrossing, character-driven, panoramic new book on the past and present of worker organizing by the former New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse.
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For the anniversary, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently opened an engrossing new exhibit, "Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach," which will be on display until late March.
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The story was engrossing, and the worlds so realized that I can still recall the sense of pure wonder I felt exploring the open world by airship and, after hours of secret-hunting, by golden Chocobo.
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One of the most extraordinary films of the decade is Minding the Gap, which starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, as they skateboard and grow up together.
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One of the most extraordinary films of the year is Minding the Gap, which starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, who skateboard together and grow up together.
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Where to stream it: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube Selma director Ava DuVernay went the documentary route with 13th, an engrossing Netflix doc that illustrates the rampant racial inequality that has long dominated the American prison system.
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It's an intuitive, innovative, engrossing and deeply, deeply engaging piece of music, a downbeat musical mansion of sorts, and one that gives you glimpses of room after gilded room you're never really given explicit permission to enter.
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An engrossing opening set went with serve until rain interrupted the match with Thiem serving to stay in the set at 5-4, forcing the players to head to the locker room as the covers came on.
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What makes "The Kingdom" so engrossing is this element of personal struggle, our sense that the agnostic author is looking over his shoulder at the armies of faith, as they pursue him to the wall of rationality.
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The story is engrossing in its own, soap opera-y way, the world is a cool space for exploration, and the hordes — while kind of broken and not really worth the build-up — have their exciting moments.
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Since the first production of "Universal Robots," his works have grown more gleefully unreal, perhaps culminating in "The Honeycomb Trilogy," an audacious, engrossing and sneakily sophisticated three-play epic about one family's response to an extraterrestrial invasion.
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On "Finding Gabriel," a new album that mixes electronic and acoustic instruments, he seeks answers to the Trump era's most daunting questions, and winds up playing some of his most emphatic and engrossing music in recent years.
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The book is described as Machado's "engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse," and it's all of that and then some.
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That should indicate that this documentary, which tries to build a comprehensive account of the talks through archival footage, diary entries and interviews, including with the former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, will be engrossing.
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It's more like a surreal, waking dreamspace, a reality you inhabit even as you face its own unreality, a morass of little imperfections that make the whole thing feel more like an engrossing hallucination than The Matrix.
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Fans of the Slate podcast "Slow Burn" might not feel a need to double dip, but those new to its precise, engrossing exploration of Watergate will have plenty to dig into in this new six-episode series.
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In the opening moments of Lucas Hnath's smart, funny and utterly engrossing new play, which opened Thursday night at the Golden Theater, audience members laugh at the sound of the demanding tattoo being beaten upon that door.
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The third set was plain sailing for the Spaniard and a double fault at 5-1 gave Bautista Agut a second match point, which he converted with a sliced backhand after an engrossing rally at the net.
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He bullied dancers, and infuriated friends when he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, but his engrossing journals, rich with watercolors and watery notes to self, reveal the intense self-doubt that his choreography obscured.
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Mr. Chomsky never raises his voice in a briskly paced, engrossing seminar on "10 principles of concentration of wealth and power," even as you wonder, given all the challenges he cites, whether he believes they can be halted.
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It is an engrossing melange of high pitched feedback that sounds like some sort of prehistoric insect cry, ethereal vocals that skip and repeat like a scratched record, and a beautiful synth line set against an unconventional beat.
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"No sane person would do this," director Ezra Edelman told WIRED in January, not long after his documentary O.J.: Made in America had become, somewhat improbably, one of the most engrossing TV-watching (and moviegoing) experiences of 2016.
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As engrossing as such psychosocial dynamics might be, once you throw in sexual proclivities that feel a little too obvious for even network TV, you've got a drama with all the subtlety of a Wall Street-themed ride.
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Titles like the engrossing farming sim Stardew Valley or the puzzley adventure Tumbleseed are a lot more appealing when I know I can play them wherever I go — that I'm not locked to my television or computer monitor.
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Shah Rukh Khan's Fan is both an engrossing study of the kind of hysteria that Bollywood film stars generate in India, as well as a semi-biographical take on Khan's own rise from middle-class anonymity to superstardom.
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Ms Larson is of course a skilled actress—a sharp glance from her is more powerful than an hour's worth of hackneyed dialogue—but her character is simply not as engrossing to watch as Mr Harrelson's flawed narcissist.
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But an earlier trip to the zoo, when Jane insists that Bonnie join her family outing (resulting in an excruciating day for the clandestine lovers), is vivid and engrossing, fascinatingly extended and absolutely earning its quantity of pages.
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Casey Schwartz's punchy, engrossing narrative about the experience of trying and becoming addicted to Adderall illuminates a conclusion that should surprise no one: Diversion of medication to patients who have not been diagnosed properly never turns out well.
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Just what it meant to be an artist in that time and place is explored by Ms. Buchanan in her prodigious archives, which make up the next third of the show and are more engrossing than they sound.
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Drawing on a variety of first- and second-hand sources, as well as plenty of photographs and video footage, "Studio 54" is an engrossing and ultimately sobering look at one of the most famous clubs in the world.
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"Dry Powder," directed at a brisk clip by Mr. Kail, on a chic, pulsating blue platform designed by Rachel Hauck, becomes more engrossing when we meet Jeff, played with a nice measure of affability by Mr. De Silva.
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Metacritic score: 86 One of the most extraordinary films of the year is Minding the Gap, which starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, who skateboard and grow up together.
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And experiencing those kinds of story moments as part of an immersive theater show this ambitious was engrossing; the combination of cinematic flair, involved storyline, and skilled improvisation from the actors triggering a sense of immediacy and presence.
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It's wonky, engrossing, almost mandatory viewing, following the money into political action committees, which attack the opponents of their anointed, who then — if all goes according to plan — win elections supporting the agenda of the corporations backing them.
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The season's central theme — that the secrets of the past have a way of resurfacing — isn't by any means a new one; but Big Little Lies has never been predictable, and this go-round feels fresh and engrossing.
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Until then, his apparent tweets dating back to July suggest that he was a man torn between two worlds: professionally training with Americans, while engrossing himself in radical views that would risk getting him locked up at home.
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The award for autobiography went to "Lab Girl," by the scientist Hope Jahren, an American geochemist and geobiologist whose engrossing memoir details her coming of age as a scientist, and her lifelong fascination with plants, trees and soil.
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Research, coordination, and shipping likely happened with help of the internet, and the ICA's continuing, engrossing Instagram campaign – with nearly 50 archived stories and seven posts about the exhibition in the last two weeks – encourages viewers to come visit.
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It is surprising, then, just how little founders think about protecting their own IP. Sure, "product-market fit" is an all-engrossing search for truth that tolerates no distraction, but that is at best an explanation, not an excuse.
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On the surface, the Netflix drama utilizes our fondness for '80s nostalgia to weave an engrossing tale reminiscent of the fantastical sci-fi and adventure movies of our youth, but the show has staying power because of its heart.
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But though the runtimes sound daunting, Wiseman's movies are also engrossing — time passes without you noticing it — and having the films available via streaming makes it easier for those who can't commit to watching them all in one go.
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In a year packed with staggering achievements like Red Dead Redemption 2, one of the most engrossing, exquisite, and expansive games ever made, I can understand why some people might not think that something like Tetris Effect could compare.
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"The Americans" has capped a fifth season that couldn't match the depressing heights of the fourth -- with the twin fates of those damsels in distress Martha and Nina -- yet which has ably set up this engrossing drama's final mission.
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" Trump sold his believers an engrossing tale of "American carnage" that he alone could fix, then isolated them in a media universe where reality exists only through Trump-tinted glasses, attacking all other sources of information as "fake news.
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The crowd and ceremonial glitter were milder than they would be an hour later for the men's competition, and the numbers didn't mount as high as Mr. Chestnut's total of 70 hot dogs, but the chewing was equally engrossing.
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An engrossing young tenor saxophonist with a zesty attack and a solid tonal range, Ms. Grand performs as part of the Jazz Gallery's itinerant presenting initiative, which brings a different young artist to the Jamaica Center once a month.
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An engrossing book assembles hundreds of covers from independent cinema publications — some as ambitious as Cahiers du Cinéma but most as dishy as Confidential — that emerged in movie-loving China between the 1920s and the first years of Communism.
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Kamila Shamsie's challenging and engrossing new novel, "Home Fire," which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has been given a ghastly urgency by the attacks in London in June, and the focus in their aftermath on "homegrown" terrorists.
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This engrossing biography of Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor of Cosmopolitan, who shook up the sixties with her book "Sex and the Single Girl," is written in a style worthy of its subject: intimate, charming, and slightly unhinged.
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One of the intellectuals, Laura Secor writes in "Children of Paradise," an engrossing but narrowly focused history of the Iranian reform movement, was Abdolkarim Soroush, a champion of the Austrian-British philosopher of science and open-society advocate Karl Popper.
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It also comes from the team behind the Max Payne and Alan Wake games, so you can expect tight, fast-moving gameplay to go along with what looks to be an engrossing story about time manipulation and science gone wrong.
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Our overall take: The videos were well made and engrossing, but we found a few problems that the format probably needs to fix if it wants to gain mainstream recognition, both as a medium for porn and as worthwhile VR content.
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It wasn't because the diseases these films tackled were the most upsetting, or because the science was the most fascinating––all six of the films were completely engrossing, and raised awareness for their respective causes without reducing the patients to caricatures.
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The mystery and scandal surrounding the story of Theranos and its CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a fascinating one, made all the more engrossing thanks to her secret relationship with the president of the company which was only revealed after the fact.
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While I've read it off and on for the better part of a year, it's an engrossing read, delving into every element that makes up the phone, from the battery to the camera to the teams that designed and produced it.
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Even those who haven't found him to be the most engrossing interpreter of repertory staples must credit Mr. Gilbert with emboldening the Philharmonic at a time when strong artistic purpose and outreach are crucial to the future of classical music.
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Often painted to the strains of classical music, these images are engrossing portals to strange worlds that combine the terror tableaux of Bruegel with the van mural fantasy of Frank Frazetta, making for a distinctive body of work worthy of attention.
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It's difficult to present a compelling arc in each clip, especially when it has to be engrossing enough to justify demanding a viewer's full attention — unlike a web series, there's no way to play Invisible on a background tab at work.
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GE is once again pushing that image of an industrial company for the Internet age with a series of Discovery Channel-style videos of some engrossing technology-heavy experiments meant to show off the power of its employees and equipment.
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I've played my share of them, from the skin-crawling horror of Capcom's Kitchen to the thrilling spaceship dogfighting of CCP's EVE: Valkyrie and onto the puzzle-solving of ustwo's Land's End and the engrossing drama of nDreams' The Assembly.
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Selections from each of these series, all of which were made into books now eagerly sought by collectors, are in "Danny Lyon: Message to the Future," an engrossing new exhibition of about 274 photographs at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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During this past 13 years, Facebook and the social media revolution have taken off and taken hold, powerful smartphones found their way into a few billion people's pockets and the way we all interact online has grown richer and more engrossing.
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Engrossing despite its daunting scope and tangled politics, "The Other Side of Everything" offers an uncommon opportunity to view the shifting borders and identities of an entire region through the eyes of the Eastern European intellectuals caught in the turmoil.
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There's a morbid fascination inherent to documentaries like "A Gray State," which is engrossing for the reasons it's also unsatisfying: As Adam Shambour, a friend of Mr. Crowley's, says, it's a mystery that answers all the major questions except "Why?"
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Undoubtedly, her account of living and working at that time as a very visible black American woman artist in European cultural capitals, working in both poetry and the plastic arts and finding audiences for her work would make an engrossing memoir.
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The most engrossing of these shows is "In Search of Expo 228," an incisive, sometimes wistful exploration of the fair and its afterlives by nearly two dozen contemporary artists, on view at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, known as MAC.
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Unlike some of her contemporaries, she has never been content merely to resurrect an earlier musical era, which may explain why she has turned out a more engrossing body of work than any of the other acts associated with neo-soul.
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Accessing your Steam saves is exactly as easy as it is on The Witcher 3, and while Divinity doesn't quite map to a controller as naturally, it's still a great option to have for such a deep and engrossing game.
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Born in Moscow to Russian immigrant parents, the 14th seed became the youngest American since Serena Williams in 103 to win a major, with Muguruza double faulting on Kenin's second match point to end an engrossing contest of over two hours.
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The engrossing array of Arab-language magazines, novels, cartoons, and film clips they've assembled illustrates a theme: the gradual change, traced in popular imagery over the last half-century, of what they call the "Arab body" from wholeness to fragmentation.
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I don't know why the King is played by two tall men (Russell Janzen and Ask la Cour) as a single faceless, giant bivalve that magically sunders into two to reveal the Princess — but the effect is so compellingly fantastic that it's engrossing.
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Still, there are few people in the history of movies who've come to better understand how they work on an intuitive level, and watching Spielberg try to explain something that's always seemed to come naturally to him makes for an engrossing watch.
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"This game is an opportunity to give mobile gamers a fresh and exciting way to interact with the engrossing themes and enigmatic narrative explored by the Westworld series," said Jonathan Knight, vice president, studio head at WB Games San Francisco, in a statement.
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Space Odyssey hit bookstores earlier this year in conjunction with the film's 50th anniversary, and it's an engrossing, if at times tedious, read that serves as a definitive history of how Stanley Kubrick developed and directed 2001: A Space Odyssey 50 years ago.
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Where, previously, characters' blurry and heavily-filtered Instagram uploads felt like an engrossing way to exist within the show's universe, the overly-polished social-media presences of the new characters smacks of Facebook (Instagram's owner) using the show to hawk its own wares.
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Rumaan Alam explores the intimacies and insecurities of their friendship in one of last summer's most engrossing and absorbing novels — and now it's out in paperback, so you can catch up even if you're more a Laura than a Sarah, bank account-wise.
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He is always curious, she says, and constantly engrossing himself in new topics and making an effort to learn as much as he can about his hobbies—which, recently, have included craft beer, hand-grinding coffee, and sourcing his own denim from Japan.
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Behold, the best of the bunch, which include a new YA book from legend Angie Thomas; a collection of poetry you'll buy for your friends; fantasy epics that will sate your Game of Throne fever; and more than one engrossing family saga.
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Lee's first win came after an engrossing game where AlphaGo played some baffling moves, prompting commentators to wonder whether they were mistakes or — as we've often seen this week — just unusual strategies that would come good in the end despite the inscrutable approach.
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The evergreen American has enjoyed a brilliant campaign, reaching two grand slam finals in 25, and the 23-year-old American was able to call on all her experience to find a way to stifle her upset-minded opponent in an engrossing encounter.
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The bottom line is that this new Mass Effect installment still delivers many, many hours of engrossing, enjoyable gameplay — leaving aside the new multiplayer mode, which I haven't yet been able to sink my teeth into, being primarily a single-player gamer myself.
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How Smoyer answered those questions is the subject of an upcoming book, "Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II." Written by Adam Makos, the engrossing book is a war story and a mystery.
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Netflix's Russian Doll – about a woman who keeps resetting to the same night in her life – isn't a response to this rubbery reality, but the show is a concise and engrossing study of what makes us alive and it couldn't be more apt.
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It's the story of a British spy in London in 1981 — everyone is watching the Jeremy Irons "Brideshead Revisited" — and its narrative is halting, occasionally far-fetched and only intermittently engrossing, but its language is brilliant, a poet's language, luminous and watchful.
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But the story of the game, as engrossing as it so quickly proves—I played a couple of hours this morning and boy, can I feel those hooks right now—isn't the only captivating side to a surprisingly deep and detailed package.
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It's telling that I, a thirtysomething who scoffs at most rom-coms and anything related to Nicholas Sparks, was so completely wrapped up in Ron and Hermione's immature but engrossing mating ritual that I felt like a tween with her first crush.
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Engrossing and deeply moving, "The Wandering Lake 2009-2017," at the Queens Museum, mostly shifts attention away from the artist's body, relying on moving water as a metaphor for concerns ranging from gender fluidity and internet surfing to climate change and migration.
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THE MOST FUN WE EVER HADBy Claire Lombardo The big family secret is revealed almost immediately in Claire Lombardo's engrossing debut novel, "The Most Fun We Ever Had," which connects four decades in the lives of the Sorensons of Oak Park, Chicago.
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To hear two productions in St. Louis — "Rigoletto" and Monteverdi's "The Coronation of Poppea," both originally in Italian — in an intimate, 960-seat theater was to experience opera as it was intended to be: engrossing music drama, with an emphasis on the drama.
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In terms of dramatic focus and emotional directness, this engrossing stage translation of a novel invites comparisons to the work of Simon McBurney, the English director whose emotionally raw production of Stefan Zweig's "Beware of Pity" is also in repertory at the Schaubühne.
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Scenes like these have become the Champions League's calling card, every spring: intense, engrossing games, games that seem to twist and turn and defy prediction, hour upon hour of live-action, cliffhanger drama, denouements that quicken the pulse and draw the breath.
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That they would eventually identify as part of the white oppressor class that dehumanized others is one of many paradoxes explored by Huang — a professor of English and the author of a book about Charlie Chan — in this contemplative yet engrossing volume.
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" Each season, "Crimetown" explores one city's criminal element; first up is an engrossing and disturbing portrait of organized crime in Providence, R.I. 'IN THE DARK' A rash of long-form true-crime podcasts was introduced this year, inspired by the success of "Serial.
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As the story tends to go, Mr. Wuorinen and Babbitt's cohort seized control of American composition at the height of the Cold War, creating an abstruse musical language that, in a post-Sputnik moment, gained prestige for engrossing specialists while alienating mainstream audiences.
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In order to avoid dwelling on a depressing or disturbing subject—the sort of subject that can keep you from falling back asleep—you concentrate on a subject that is so engrossing that it can drive the depressing subject from your mind.
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If it's done right, these books can be every bit as engrossing as a museum presentation — and these days, in a global art world where none of us can catch every show, they offer an essential guide to cities and institutions abroad.
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It was visually engrossing, but mostly it felt like the staging of an elaborate modern dance recital — a bit like a Depeche Mode album, over-produced and atmospheric, fun to listen to the first few times, but not a work I would recommend.
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The argument driving this engrossing show is that Buchanan was actually a thematically ambitious and multi-faceted artist who participated in the avant-garde movements of her day, bringing to them a distinct perspective informed by her sense of identity as black and female.
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But the argument driving this engrossing show is that Buchanan was actually a thematically ambitious and multifaceted artist who participated in the avant-garde movements of her day, bringing to them a distinct perspective informed by her sense of identity as black and female.
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The result is a listen that's engrossing and informative, and it puts a more human spin on the document that governs our lives in the US. You can listen to Constitutional on The Washington Post's website, and on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, RadioPublic, and Stitcher.
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"It's a subject that for 100 years ... has been suppressed, and I thought this was a wonderful opportunity to try and enlighten the world and at the same time tell an engrossing story," George said in a red carpet interview ahead of the premiere.
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But "Appointments," the lead single from the forthcoming Turn Out the Lights, is even more brutal and engrossing, a paradoxically vivid detailing of depression that builds from a whisper to an agonizing howl that barely offers any hope beyond the promise of more medication.
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Mark Asquith, in the shrewd study " Reading the Novels of John Williams " (Lexington), and Charles J. Shields, in his engrossing short biography "The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel" (Texas), have raided Williams's papers at the University of Arkansas, where he lectured after retiring.
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Be prepared to want to take notes on this six-part mini-series from 1988: Bill Moyers's thorough, engrossing interviews with Joseph Campbell about humanity, religion and storytelling are beautiful enough to border on revelatory and substantial enough that they should be worth college credit.
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The result is an engrossing visual feast of modern Iran, its food and its people, from fish markets in the north piled with fresh Caspian salmon; through farmlands planted with pomegranates, pistachios and crocuses for saffron; to the Indian spices of the Persian Gulf region.
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This is the other strategic choice that makes this exhibition engrossing: it effectively demonstrates that the evolution of the labor movement was not a story with an inevitable ending, but a passage with pitfalls, failures, switchbacks and outcomes that could not have been predicted.
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You can watch that process unfold in one of the most engrossing works in the exhibition: "Um-basax-bilua, 'Where They Make the Noise' 1904-2016" (2019), a timeline of photographs from Crow Fair, a large annual festival and gathering that features daily parades.
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The designation of a "beach read" suggests a book that's frothy and engrossing, but ultimately ephemeral — one that you can sink into as you slump in a folding chair in the sand, but you won't miss too much if you forget it at the hotel.
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THE REGENCY YEARS During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern By Robert Morrison Nine years ago, the Canadian historian Robert Morrison published a scholarly and engrossing life of England's second most famous opium eater, Thomas De Quincey.
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This season, the Volkstheater in Vienna is paying unusual tribute to Kieslowski with "Die Zehn Gebote" ("The Ten Commandments") an engrossing theatrical version of "The Decalogue" that compresses the 10 original segments into a fast-moving and dramatically incisive two and a half hours.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads What does it mean to read Ronan Farrow's engrossing Catch and Kill the week after you have seen Leah Gardner's vibrant Public Theatre production of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have committed suicide when the rainbow is enuf?
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Oscar winner Julia Roberts is attached to play Kelli Peters, the PTA mom whose story was chronicled in Christopher Goffard's engrossing L.A. Times serial Framed, in a feature film that is currently being shopped to studios, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told Mashable.
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It is, for the most part, an engrossing account, although the filmmakers employ one extremely questionable device to help illustrate what had only been heard, not seen, using animation as a visual aid during voiceover excerpts read from murder victim Hae Min Lee's diary.
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The video Ms. Price produced in Oxford forms one half of an engrossing exhibition here, "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans," that explores the slippages of archaeology and how easily we project present-day expectations onto the mystery of the past.
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Better Call Saul, American Crime Story: The People Vs. OJ Simpson, and House of Cards all proved the value in pumping the brakes and letting a moment of beautiful cinematography, an engrossing character study, or a particularly juicy scene linger just a bit longer than necessary.
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Injustice 43 looks like it carries forward everything that worked about the previous game — namely, the engrossing story and finely tuned combat — and adds to it a new collection of gear drops that let you tweak the look (and performance) of your preferred heroes and villains.
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This engrossing survey of his work from 1988 to 2012, curated by Orianna Cacchione, focused on his affinity for repetition as a powerful tool to upset what is typically seen on Chinese television, from Cultural Revolution-era films to the daily readings of a news broadcaster.
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Stick with it, though, and this eight-part limited series becomes an engrossing deconstruction of the Unabomber case, including how the aforementioned FBI profiler, Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald ("Avatar's" Sam Worthington), employed then-nascent techniques of dissecting speech quirks in his quarry's notorious Manifesto to unearth him.
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Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now long, starkly intimate live exchanges — character excavations that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft and engrossing celebrity interviewers in the business and a sought-after stop for stars selling a movie or setting the record straight.
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Gleick is a polymathic thinker who can quote from David Foster Wallace's undergraduate thesis as readily as from Kurt Gödel or Lord Kelvin, and like many of the storytellers he thumbnails, he employs time travel to initiate engrossing discussions of causation, fatalism, predestination and even consciousness itself.
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" But the advice of New York Magazine's "Polly" to a woman who wondered why she's had so much "bad luck" with men is ringing in my ears: Instead of asking why men "don't like you," Polly shot back, why not ask: "Why isn't your work more engrossing?
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Far from limiting itself to one type of work, Burckhardt's dynamic and engrossing installation melds painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, and text-based works, along with copies of both consumer objects and paintings, while simultaneously alluding to theater sets, natural history dioramas, and maybe even museum period rooms.
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"This has to be one of the most engrossing histories ever written — yet not a word of it is true," William Beauchamp, a French literature scholar, wrote in The New York Times Book Review when the book was published in English in the United States in 1975.
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Behind the mound is a small second gallery where "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," one of Eurythmics' biggest hits, plays in reverse with strange, engrossing distortions, while viewers marvel at the "Trophy Room," a small chamber whose walls are tiled with Ms. Lennox's gold discs.
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In monumental biographies of Peter the Great (19803-1725), Catherine the Great (1729-96) and Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra, who were assassinated with their five children and others in 22003, Mr. Massie captivated audiences with detailed accounts that read to many like engrossing novels.
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Directed by Kery James and Leïla Sy. October 15th Netflix description: In this engrossing drama based on a 2008 New Yorker article, the cold case of a slain Polish businessman begins to heat up again after a famous writer publishes a novel about a strangely similar crime.
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One of his earliest published works, it has all the earmarks of King at his finest: an engrossing plot featuring psychological suspense, a deep sense of nostalgia for a specific time and place, and a complex villain — in this case, a serial killer nicknamed Springheel Jack.
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During the Cold War, Britain became known as America's "unsinkable aircraft carrier" for hosting its ally's atomic bombers, long-range communications systems, intelligence infrastructure and missiles, making the threat of a nuclear strike palpable, wrote Nick Catford in "Cold War Bunkers," an engrossing book of photographs published in 2010.
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So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the new Blade Runner, an engrossing true crime tale, the return of Bob's Burgers, and a loving ode to VHS — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
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It was the first time Ghibli had ever worked on a game, partnering with Level-5, the studio behind acclaimed RPGs like Dark Cloud and Dragon Quest IX. It merged the engrossing feel of a world-spanning role-playing experience with the style and storytelling of a Ghibli movie.
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Still, it's the kind of movie that would be a lot more engrossing on a big screen (even if it means you can't pause during that scene), and despite a very limited awards-qualifying theatrical release, most viewers will probably end up catching this one from their couch.
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And if you want to understand Fox, and you want to understand the rise of conservatism today, Roger's life story is a good way to look at that — an engrossing, non-didactic way of exploring a lot of big ideas, because he's really fascinating as a human portrait.
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Mallaby, whose previous book was a sympathetic (and engrossing) history of hedge funds, doesn't buy the argument that the deregulation of financial markets that began in the 21970s and accelerated in the 1990s was all a mistake — or that Greenspan could have stopped it if he wanted to.
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In The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It, historian Joanna Scutts puts Hillis into the context of her time, in an engrossing book that's part biography of Hillis and part cultural history of women in 20th century America.
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"The OTTO trilogy is an intact and hermetic system, fueled by the tensions between impulse and restraint, between sheer desire and control," curator Nancy Spector writes in the intro to Gladstone Gallery's engrossing OTTO Trilogy book, a must for audiences looking for the foundations to Barney's epic later works.
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Weber, a professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, is an erudite literary historian as well as a fashion connoisseur, and she spent years of archival research amassing the sumptuous details, apt and amusing illustrations, lengthy endnotes, huge bibliography and three appendixes of this engrossing story.
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Book Entry "Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal," by the BuzzFeed investigative reporter Ken Bensinger, delivers an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue culminating in dozens of individuals and companies associated with professional soccer being brought to justice.
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Caught between parents, cultures and ideologies, Andreas's thoroughly engrossing account of his conflicted upbringing is enriched by excerpts from his mother's diaries, offering glimpses into the mind of a woman so driven by a desire for social equality that her actions call into question what constitutes quality parenting.
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There are countless free-to-play analogues for mobile on the market—among them celebrity chef-co-signed Restaurant Dash with Gordon Ramsay and Cooking Fever, which garnered more than 100 million downloads in 2017—though Cooking Craze, through sheer speed and chaos alone, is definitely the most engrossing.
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In engrossing prose, Dennis-Benn tracks how Patsy and Tru fare over the years, as Patsy struggles to find work as an undocumented person in an America that's not as promising as she thought it would be, and Tru grapples with her mother's incomprehensible absence and burgeoning feelings of gender nonconformity.
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Man At Arms: Reforged is an engrossing video series that follows the blacksmiths at Baltimore Knife & Sword as they create real-world versions of fictional weapons and shields, such as Link's Master Sword from Legend of Zelda to the Lich King's Frostmourne from World of Warcraft to Wonder Woman's iconic shield.
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So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the latest true crime TV series, a satirical novel about a Brooklyn mom on the lam, and an engrossing step team documentary — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
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Since meeting in Manchester almost twenty years ago, the duo of Jas Shaw and James Ford have found themselves everywhere from Berghain to the Billboard charts, and have put out engrossing, evocative electronic music that is as approachable as it is unconventional—all while almost willfully reinventing themselves at every turn.
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Williams, one of the manifesto's authors, is now out with his second book of graphic fiction, THE LADY DOCTOR (Penn State University, $24.95), which, like his first, "The Bad Doctor," is set in a small town in Wales and offers the engrossing perspective of a hard-working and fallible physician.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Dominic Thiem was dragged into an engrossing five-set scrap by former ditch digger Alex Bolt on Thursday but disappointed a vocal partisan crowd by emerging a 1403-2 5-7 6-7(5) 6-1 6-2 winner to reach the third round of the Australian Open.
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British director Tim Wardle does such an engrossing job investigating the fascinating and disturbing story of how and why the brothers were separated, but, alas, the Academy was not convinced — maybe all those ads touting the film's debut on CNN when voters were filling their nomination ballots had something to do with it?
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Similarly, while TV has indulged in more ambitious storytelling over the past decade, "Game of Thrones" wedded those attributes and engrossing characters with an organic world into which the audience can escape, while marshaling blockbuster filmmaking techniques in a manner that traditionally wasn't feasible in TV in terms of time or money.
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But search your memory for a time where you've had a genuinely engrossing onion ring argument—one where you claimed that Jack In The Box's onion rings are superior to what you can find at Arby's, or turned your nose up to those who preferred a thicker cut, or a waffled texture.
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"Drawing Dialogues: Selections From the Sol LeWitt Collection" reveals that artist's restless eye, with drawings ranging from a "Devil Man" from around 1980 by Old Tutuma Tjapangati, an Aboriginal artist, to more predictable but engrossing works by peers like Lawrence Weiner, Alice Aycock, William Anastasi, Charles Gaines, Lee Lozano and Nancy Graves.
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Two of those movies deal with literary titans: "Colette," an engrossing biography starring Keira Knightley as the author and fashion firebrand, who, after her marriage, began openly living with a woman; and "The Happy Prince," with Rupert Everett as the notorious Oscar Wilde, in a movie that the actor also wrote and directed.
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Though the film's extensive interviews with the artist and odd (dare I say "Lynchian"?) pacing make for a very engrossing experience, hardcore fans of his films may leave frustrated as The Art Life is, as its title suggests, very much focused on Lynch's life pre-fame (and pre-film) and his studio art.
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Labo VR is great for playing short arcade games in five-minute bursts, but with full support for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the way, it's hard to see how holding a tablet to your face could be comfortable and enjoyable for long sessions with involved and engrossing action games.
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A combination of challenges, errands, side quests and main quests, along with unlockables, makes this a very engrossing game that you can spend many days with, even leaving aside how fun it can be to just jump in and test out different hunting methods on random groups of enemies with no particular goal in mind.
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Instead, it's an engrossing costume pageant of clichés: Sarah Paulson and Sterling K. Brown as the prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden are noble but outmatched pros, drinking tequila and bantering at the office late into the night like Don Draper and Peggy Olson; Steve Pasquale, as Detective Mark Fuhrman, lovingly polishes his Nazi memorabilia.
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Just when you're beginning to be tired (as poor old Eric must be) of Jane's perpetual blanking out, just when you can't decide whether this is a fictional investigation of the mystical, the marital or the medical, the narrative ramps up a notch and turns into that most engrossing of beasts, a novel about sex.
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Her engrossing new memoir, "Lab Girl," is at once a thrilling account of her discovery of her vocation and a gifted teacher's road map to the secret lives of plants — a book that, at its best, does for botany what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould's writings did for paleontology.
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Behind an imposing castle wall, "Harry Potter: A History of Magic," an engrossing new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, traces the origins of Harry's story, not just through the lens of the writing process, but through the many historical, cultural and scientific influences that helped shape and inspire the magic of the books.
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In Liza Mundy's prodigiously researched and engrossing new book, "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II," she describes the experiences of several thousand American women who spent the war years in Washington, untangling the clandestine messages sent by the Japanese and German militaries and diplomatic corps.
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A nearly-17.996-page graphic memoir by a 218.95-year-old seems like a dicey proposition — not least because most cartoonists take years or decades to develop their voice — but Tillie Walden's SPINNING (First Second, paper, $17.99) is an engrossing, gorgeously quiet look back at the 12 years she devoted to figure and synchronized skating.
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That makes watching a war movie like Platoon much more engrossing with the Command Bar than with, say, the cheaper $200 Samsung TV Mate, and the simple fact that the Polk soundbar comes with a subwoofer almost makes it seem like a better deal than the new $400 Sonos Beam, another new smart soundbar with Alexa skills.
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You just need one long sunny day to get through this engrossing novel about an Maria, an academic who struggles under the weight of representing a new sort of cultural idea: She and her fiancé are a mixed race power couple in Brooklyn in the 1990s, symbols of how the world can improve when racial boundaries blur.
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That question hangs over the climax, in which Kapuscinski must decide whether to send a scoop to his news agency or withhold it, knowing that the revelation could endanger the M.P.L.A. Whether you regard his decision as ethical or not, "Another Day of Life" remains an engrossing film in which form and function can be intriguingly opposed.
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In Brooklyn you'll find some engrossing self-portraits, including MoMA's severe "Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair," but Kahlo also painted half-competent still lifes, gross Stalinist agitprop, and ghastly New Age kitsch — including this show's "The Love Embrace of the Universe ...," a world-spiritualist tableau featuring a lactating Mother Earth that would make Deepak Chopra blanch.
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Coming off a wonderful year of challenging black art that swam in acclaim, engrossing ideological debate, and, in the case of Kendrick Lamar's titan of a sophomore retail album To Pimp a Butterfly, respectable record sales and album of the year accolades, worrying that Macklemore will get credit for pushing the dial on matters of black sociopolitical interest seems odd.
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The real stars are the environment—The Division's frozen Manhattan is stunning, and wandering through its desolate streets is one of the game's great pleasures—and the nihilistic yet completely engrossing gameplay, which has you teaming up with other players to assault enemy strongholds, ultimately in the service of gathering better loot, more lethal equipment, and various clothing that changes your character's appearance.
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Organized by Manuel Borja-Villel and Teresa Velázquez, respectively the director and the head of exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, where it was first seen earlier this year, this survey of Ishida's art is one of the most engrossing presentations of contemporary painting to have been shown in the United States in many years.
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Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden get the "30 for 30" treatment in this by-the-book but nonetheless engrossing doc, directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio (who also directed one of my favorites in this series, "You Don't Know Bo.") In a summer where many are celebrating the anniversary of the Mets' 1986 World Series win, revisiting two of that team's biggest stars feels right.
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Watching him piece together the clues while his friends assess his deteriorating mental state is engrossing and affecting, and when everything comes together for an explosive finale, it kind of feels like the only possible end to an evening in LA. Another film that's technically a revenge film, Man From Nowhere is basically The Professional meets John Wick on speed, with a lot more blood and violence.
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They are Terence Rattigan's "The Deep Blue Sea" at the National Theater, in which the wondrous Helen McCrory adds yet another memorable portrait to her gallery of devastatingly devastated women; a three-play, single-day, engrossing marathon of early Chekhov works (also at the National); an especially bruising "Midsummer Night's Dream" at Shakespeare's Globe; and Simon Stone's merciless and mesmerizing updating of Federico García Lorca's "Yerma," starring a fabulous Billie Piper.
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The result is an engrossing assemblage of contradictions: Black Origami is born from Jlin's footwork roots, but with its drum corps, Bollywood, ambient, and industrial influences, is squarely genreless within its electronic framework; it's wildly arrhythmic, but finds momentum in the spaces between beats; its components are a brilliant, if often baffling, cerebral flex, but together amount to a stream of consciousness experience that feels natural, even easy.
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Following his Polaris win, Kaytranada dropped a new mixtape "for the fans;" Bruce Springsteen, still tearing it up three hours at a time, preparing to release what I expect will be a wonderful memoir—the man was built for this as much as anything—released an engrossing retrospective; Ty Dolla $ign and Mick Jenkins both released full-length albums of ingenuity and subtlety; T.I. squared up to the world around him and rapped what he said he was compelled to.
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Not wanting to give away too much (including the gruesome significance of the title), I do think it fair to say that the lure of Gould's ghost proved irresistible to Lepore (as another "secret history," that of Wonder Woman, did previously), and I leave it up to the book's readers to sift through the literary remains (including significant notes and sources) to decide if the dogged pursuit of a madman's grossly engrossing tale is in some elemental way more fascinating than the man himself.
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