Critics At Large

Adam Driver in The Report . After the September 11 attacks, the CIA requested authorization to use what it euphemistically called...

Rip Torn and Jeff Morris in Payday (1973). In my final 2019 posting on Critics at Large I’d like to pay tribute to two marvelous...

George Crumb. (Photo by Sarah Shatz) CD Review of George Crumb’s Makrokosmos 1 and 2, Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for ampl...

The cast of White Christmas at Boston's Wang Theatre.   I saw Randy Skinner ’s stage version of Irving Berlin’s White Christm...

Dame Judi Dench in Cats . For the last few days, my Facebook feed has been inundated with memes and tweets and hot takes and qu...

Monetaire 26 ,  2019, mixed media, collage and resin on canvas. (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery) Jennifer Kostuik Gallery , Vancouver, Sep...

Andrew Scott and Indira Varma in Present Laughter . (Photo: Manuel Harlan) The relentless updating of classic material continues apa...

Liz Baer in the kitchen. Liz Baer earns her paycheck teaching Latin, but she’s been moonlighting for a little more than a year test...

James Cusati-Moyer and Ato Blankson-Wood in Slave Play . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) This review contains spoilers for Slave Play .   ...

Emilio Delgado and Hugo E. Carbajal in Quixote Nuevo at the Huntington Theatre Company. (Photo: T. Charles Erickson) Octavio Sollis ...

Jude Law and Silvio Orlando in The Young Pope on HBO. Now that Paolo Sorrentino's new limited series The New Pope has premier...

Brenda Wehle and Charlotte Bydwell in The Michaels: Conversations During Difficult Times . (Photo by Joan Marcus) The Michaels: Conve...

Author Colson Whitehead. (Photo: Chris Close) Most of us do not harbour a benign view of slavery, namely the belief that the owne...

William H. Daniels, with Greta Garbo, on the set of Romance (1930). The best time I’ve had at the movies so far this year was watchi...

Bingham Bryant in Notes on an Appearance (2018). Notes on an Appearance (2018), writer-director-editor Ricky D'Ambrose...

Timothée Chalamet in The King (2019). This review contains spoilers.   In a capsule review of a 1932 straight-dramatic movie ...

The Impressions in 1970: Curtis Mayfield, Fred Cash and Sam Gooden (Phoyo: Giles Petard) “They were living in the future, those ar...

Metropolis by Otto DIx (1927-1928). When the Scottish-born author, Philip Kerr, died of cancer last year at the age of 62, he left b...

A scene from Fiddler on the Roof at Manhattan's Stage 42. (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Since Fiddler on the Roof  swept New York five ...

Quentin Dolmaire and Tom Mercier in Synonyms ( Synonymes , 2019). In our era of resurging fascism, Israeli writer-director Nadav...