Critics At Large

Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot once again, in A Haunting in Venice . A Haunting in Venice is the third Hercule Poirot adaptation writte...

Album cover art: Bjorn Vandenneucker “What is typical of our century and largely promoted by the media, is the general belief that everythin...

Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer . Christopher Nolan makes his bid for movie posterity with Oppenheimer . His three-...

Ann Patchett's new novel Tom Lake was published by Harper in August 2023. (Photo: Emily Doriot) “There are the stars – doing their old,...

Jeff Bridges and Alan Arkin in Hearts of the West (1975). Alan Arkin died on June 29, two years after he was killed off on his penultimat...

Hachette Books, 2022; Hachette Books, 2022. “How does it feel, to be on your own, a complete unknown, with no direction home . . .” – Bob Dy...

Mike Nadajewski and Kristi Frank in On the Razzle . (Photo: Emily Cooper) This piece includes reviews of On the Razzle , Blithe Spirit and ...