Critics At Large

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, via PBS. Ken Burns ’s newest film, The U.S. and the Holocaust , is the most timely, dark, and pol...

Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman and Robert Pattinson as Batman in The Batman . (Photo: Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros.) In his 1957 architectonic study ...

from left: Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once . Theories of the multiverse go as far back to...

Renate Reinsve in The Worst Person in the World . Socialists are quick to point out that we’ll still have problems after the revolution – t...

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog , currently streaming on Netflix. Reading the rapturous reviews of The Power of the Dog is a ...

Paul Rudd in The Fundamentals of Caring on Netflix. With his compact frame, large head, and pliable facial features, Paul Rudd has e...

Devin Druid and Gabriel Byrne in Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs . Joachim Trier's previous movie,  Oslo, August 31st , offe...

Matt Damon in Jason Bourne . Jason Bourne is the fifth installment of the espionage franchise and the third in which Matt Damon ...

Today marks the seventieth anniversary of V-E Day, the official surrender of the German government that brought the Second World War to...

MacKenzie Meehan, Kathleen McElfresh, & Christopher Donahue in The Second Girl . (All photos by T. Charles Erickson) Eugene O...

Two Days, One Night —the latest offering from the Dardenne brothers of Belgium—feels about as long as that, despite clocking in at a l...

A scene from Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), shot by Gordon Willis. Near the opening of his 1977 film Annie Hall , Woody Allen ...

Christian Bale as Moses in Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings Director Ridley Scott’s latest epic, Exodus: Gods and Kings , m...

Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo in Foxcatcher Bennett Miller’s 2005 film Capote started out as a literary biopic about the novelis...

Jeremy Renner as Gary Webb in Kill the Messenger If last summer’s scenes from Ferguson, M.O. –   the corpse of a black man lying i...

Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig in The Skeleton Twins In director Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins , Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig play tw...

Ben Affleck stars in David Fincher's Gone Girl This review contains major spoilers for Gone Girl . “It was long. It wa...

James Gandolfini and Tom Hardy in The Drop When The Godfather opened in 1972, Pauline Kael wrote of the terrifying light it shed on...

Movies like Michael Winterbottom ’s The Trip (2010) elude the reductive marketing categories of studio advertising. The trailer pitched...

Derek Jeter in 2008, after his 1,270th hit at Yankee Stadium, breaking Lou Gehrig's record (Photo: Barton Silverman) No start ...