Critics At Large

Chef Yotam Ottolenghi is the author of Simple . (Photo: Chris Floyd) If you're familiar with Yotam Ottolenghi's cookbooks and ...

There’s no way you could contain 2018 in a list, no matter how long. The year was too chaotic, and too much incredible art rose ...

Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970). The Italian filmmaker Bernardo Berto...

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Pixie Davies, Joel Dawson, Nathanael Saleh and Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns . (Photo: Jay Maidment) Author...

Jacki Weaver and Elizabeth Debicki in Widows . A heist film is usually focused on the heist: who’s the mark, what’s the take, who...

Yalitza Aparicio in Roma . During the credits of Roma , Alfonso Cuarón ’s black-and-white memory picture about growing up in Mexi...

Jonny Lee Miller, Jon Michael Hill and Lucy Liu CBS's Elementary . It can be difficult to decide what to buy people for the holid...

When the Real Day Breaks , by Dénesh Ghyczy, 2018, 130 x 170 cm. “The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but...

A detail from The Effects of Colonialization, Past and Present by Manasie Akpaliapik. Manasie Akpaliapik has not had an easy time ...

Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Lee Israel was a freelance journalist who enjoyed some success writing celebrity bio...

Gerard Butler (left) in Hunter Killer . If you hadn’t already guessed from the film’s name and poster typeface, Hunter Killer is ...

Kyle Vincent Terry and John Douglas Thompson in Michael Cristofer's Man in the Ring . (Photo: T. Charles Erickson) Michael Cristo...

“Music is frozen architecture and architecture is frozen music.” – ...

A scene from Jennifer Peedom's Mountain (2017). I want to discuss two films that, to a significant degree, are stitched toge...

Eddie Redmayne and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald . We can all agree that the more franchises crowd the ...

Kevin Courrier passed away on October 12. He would have turned 64 years old today. I was already very interested in movies when I beca...

The Beatles' "Mad Day Out" (July 28, 1968). (Photo credit: Apple Corps Ltd.) Devin: I'd love to follow up on that W...

Janet McTeer in Bernhardt/Hamlet . (Photo: Joan Marcus) It’s hard to imagine that devout theatrephiles wouldn’t fall for Theresa Re...

Svetlana Lunkina as Anna Karenina in John Neumeier’s Anna Karenina . (Photo: Kiran West) John Neumeier’s Anna Karenina , at Toronto...

Brittany Ashworth in Hostile (2017). Writer-director Mathieu Turi’s debut is a zombie post-apocalypse thriller cum meditation on a ro...