Critics At Large

Jared Leto and Diane Kruger in Jaco van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody (2009). There’s nothing in the world more terrifying than a restauran...

Matthias Schoenaerts in The Mustang . The first images of The Mustang , of a herd of wild mustangs racing vainly across a western...

Published by Black Rose Books, 2019. “There is no such thing as seeing any object or event without the act of seeing being affec...

Eddie Korbich, Chandler Williams, and Arnie Burton in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense . Photo by T. Charles Erickson I fell fo...

Makiko Esumi in Hirokazu Kore-eda's Maborosi ( Maboroshi no Hikari / 幻の光, 1995). Grief is a many-faceted thing. I’ve often felt t...

Sara Mearns and Mark Evans in I Married an Angel . (Photo: Joan Marcus) I Married an Angel is the sixth musical by Richard Rodge...

Brian Wilson, 1966, the fragile reason why The Beach Boys matter. Brian fought hard against the industry attitude that if it works,...

Josie Lawrence and Joan Plowright in Enchanted April . During World War I, two middle-aged women, fed up with their dreary marria...

Robert Pattinson in High Life . Despite having seen Trouble Every Day (2001) , nothing could’ve prepared me fo...

Jake Gyllenhaal in Sea Wall/A Life . (Photo: Joan Marcus) Sea Wall and A Life are a pair of monologues, each about forty-five ...

Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in Serenity (2019). This piece contains spoilers for Serenity and Aquaman . When critics fir...

Bruno Schulz, self-portrait, 1922. Review of Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz, a new translation by Madeline Levine, released by Nor...

Noma Dumezweni, Jamie Parker, and Paul Thornley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child . (Photo: Manuel Harlan) I grew up reading Harry...

Johnny Ramey and Myxolydia Tyler in Detroit '67 . (Photo:  T. Charles Erickson) Detroit ’67 (at Hartford Stage ) is part of ...

Mahershala Ali and  Viggo Mortensen in Green Book . Green Book (2018) – directed by Peter Farrelly; written by Farrelly, Brian Ha...

The proposed new building for the Vancouver Art Gallery, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. “We used to build temples, but museums a...

Jason Gotay and Carmen Cusack in Call Me Madam . (Photo: Stephanie Berger) When Irving Berlin’s musicals entered the realm of politic...

Nathan Lane,  Christina Vidal and Michael J. Fox in Life with Mikey (1993). Life with Mikey was director James Lapine’s second movie,...

Kelly Macdonald in Puzzle . Agnes, the Bridgeport, Connecticut working-class housewife played by Kelly Macdonald in Puzzle , se...

Adam Driver and John David Washington in BlacKkKlansman . The following contains a spoiler for the film Shoplifters .   It’s alwa...