Critics At Large

Devon Snell in Echo Dark (2020). (Photo: Ömer Yükseker) Farewells are rarely easy. But Christopher House, outgoing artistic dire...

Taylor Swift in Miss Americana , now streaming on Netflix. People often say that you need to be objective to be a good critic, but ...

Kathryn Hunter in Timon of Athen s. (Photo: Henry Grossman) In Shakespeare’s late, one-of-a-kind tragedy Timon of Athens (now ...

Choi Woo Shik, Song Kang Ho, Chang Hyae Jin and Park So Dam in Parasite . Director Bong Joon-ho ’s magnum opus Parasite is his firs...

Sam Poon, Anthony Genovesi, Jakeim Hart and Gian Perez in Sing Street . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) I caught the sold-out final performan...

Tina Turner shared her own transformative heart experiences with Andrea Miller. (Photo: Nathan Beck). I wish I had known about Awaken...

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in The Aeronauts .  . . . [A]ll balloon flights are naturally three-act dramas. The First Act ...

Eleanor Reissa and Stephen Schnetzer in We All Fall Down . (Photo: Nile Hawver) The Huntington Theatre Company ’s commitment to produ...

Yong Mei and Wang Jingchun in So Long, My Son ( Dijiutianchang / 地久天长, 2019) Chinese New Year is almost upon us, a time for family a...

Judgment Day , at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. (Photo: Stephanie Berger) The British director Richard Jones has directed ...

Aretha, ready for a little churchy action (Photo: Roger Bamber) “Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-Ameri...

Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro in The Irishman . (Photo: Niko Tavernise/Netflix) This article includes reviews of The Irishman , ...

Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen in Greta Gerwig's Little Women . Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is the...

Like most years, 2019 was a parade of dizzying highs and disappointing lows for the video game world. Join me, won’t you, as I hand out ...

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...