Critics At Large

Tosh Berman (left) gesturing tantrically with family friend Allen Ginsberg. (Photo: Wallace Berman) Review of the new memoir, Tosh: Gr...

The cast of The Wolves . (Photo: Mark S. Howard) Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves is set among the members of a teenage girls’ socce...

Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) was restored and re-released in 2010.  Fritz Lang must have been a rare kind of genius. He somehow...

 Saoirse Ronan in Mary Queen of Scots . (Photo: Liam Daniel) This piece contains reviews for Mary Queen of Scots , The Favourite , T...

Thomas Couture’s 1873 contemplation The Thorny Path , aka the courtesans’s carriers. A review of the new book The Thorny Path: Pornogr...

Kevin Courrier's interview with Robertson Davies was conducted in 1985. This week marks the ninth anniversary of Critics At Large ...

Ben Dickey and Alia Shawkat in Blaze . Blaze , Ethan Hawke ’s biography of the Austin-based country singer-songwriter Blaze Fole...

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.” – ...