Critics At Large

Alex Honnold in Free Solo . (Photo courtesy of National Geographic) Feature movies about mountain climbing generally fail because the...

Jeff Daniels and Gbenga Akinnagbe in To Kill a Mockingbird . (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Aaron Sorkin ’s To Kill a Mockingbird , no...

Richard Turner in Dealt . (Photo: Geoff Duncan) I thought I’d just about finished reviewing documentaries after that las...

Hugh Jackman (centre) in The F.ront Runner . Movie-wise, 2018 culminated in the lamest Christmas season in years; aside from Mary Po...

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 ...