Critics At Large

Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m the one who is haunted and not her, or not the photographs of this compelling, spooky, charming and ...

Paul Newman and Susan Sarandon in Twilight (1998). The writer-director Robert Benton adapted Richard Russo’s novel Nobody’s Fool ...

A scene from Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson (2016). Documentaries are often – aesthetically speaking – very, very boring. Man ...

RIOT runs until June 16 in Toronto. (Photo: Fiona Morgan) RIOT , the hit Irish variety show kicking up a storm at this year’s Lumina...

Gord Downie performing with The Tragically Hip in Vancouver in 2016. (Photo: Andrew Chin) Michael Barclay’s biography of The Tragicall...

Lucy McCormick, Le Gateau Chocolat, Peter Brathwaite, and Katie Bray in  Effigies of Wickedness! (Photo: Helen Murray) When the Nazi...

Photo: Roy Grogan Beverley McLachlin retired early this year after serving eighteen years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of...

Artists of the National Ballet of Canada in Frame by Frame . (Photo: Karolina Kuras) Film is a form of dance. – Norman McLaren ...

Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani in Paterson (2016). We are pleased to welcome a new critic, CJ Sheu, to our group. Many reviewe...

Stella Stevens and Jason Robards in Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue . (Photo: Getty) In a brilliant essay for Critics at L...

Saniya Abilmajinova with the Ballet Jörgen ensemble performing the Walpurgis Night ballet from Faust . (Photo: Jakub Kracmar) To cel...

Joachim Waibel self-portraited as a moment in his "Stalingrad" series. I have observed and written about the mixed-media art ...

Adetomiwa Edun, Colin Morgan, and Seamus O'Hara in Translations . (Photo: Catherine Ashmore) Brian Friel’s 1980 Translations , on...

Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes in Dirty Dancing (1987). From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show ...

Lakeith Stanfield, Donald Glover, and Brian Tyree Henry in FX's Atlanta , whose second season ended May 10. (Photo: FX) Note: Thi...

Naomi Watts and Edward Norton in The Painted Veil . (Photo: IMDB) My friend Michael Sragow, who currently writes for the online edit...

Julie Walters (right) in Terry Jones's Personal Services (1987). From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of th...

Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story . (Photo: Jonathan Olley) Note: This review contains spoilers for Solo: A Star...

Elvis Costello, in a publicity still for his debut album in 1977. (Photo: Getty Images) I turned 19 years of age the day My Aim Is Tru...

Saoirse Ronan and Corey Stoll in Michael Mayer's film adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull . (Photo: IMDB) Of the four Chekhov...