Critics At Large

 Orlando James and Natalie Radmall-Quirke in The Winter’s Tale. (Photo: Johan Persson) Because The Winter’s Tale – one of the late gl...

“The past is intrinsic to the present, despite any attempts to dismiss it.” – Ariana Neumann Ariana Neumann’s moving, beautifull...

A mother and daughter in Albert Maysles's In Transit (2015). For one glorious week, the last film by documentarian and pioneer of...

Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration is currently streaming at Broadway.com. After technical screw-ups that d...

Edward Watson as Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis at London’s Royal Opera House. (Photo: Tristram Kenton) For the next month, Ar...

Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946). Two of the most enjoyable and elegantly appointed thrillers of the Hollywood big-...

Just as psychoanalysis reconstructs the original traumatic situation in order to release the repressed material, so we are now being...

Mare Winningham in  Off the Minnesota Strip (1980). There wasn’t an ounce of pretense or melodrama in Mare Winningham ’s portrayal ...

Bartosz Bielenia in Corpus Christi (Boze Cialo ). Did you know that Poland has a fake priest problem ? You’d think paris...

Joan Baez  and Bob Dylan in Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese , now streaming on Netflix. The Rolling Thund...

“I may lie a lot. But never in my lyrics.” – Courtney Love Imagine receiving a postcard from a friend who claimed to be writing to y...

Shirley Knight and Hal Holbrook in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). When Sidney Lumet made a movie of Mary McCarthy’s The G...

Greta Hodgkinson in Marguerite and Armand . (Photo: Karolina Kuras)   Given that dance seasons usually are organized at least a year...

Nancy Anderson and Charles Busch in The Confession of Lily Dare . (Photo: Carol Rosegg) The last two shows I caught in New York befor...

Anya Taylor-Joy in Emma. Many people love Jane Austen’s novels for the romance of them, and the romance is very good: unsentimenta...

The False Mirror, by Rene Magritte, 1929. “Images, our great and primitive passion . . .”   – Walter Benjamin, ca. 1930 The word ...

Joél Pérez, Ana Nogueira, Jennifer Damiano & Michael Zegen in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice . (Photo: Monique Carboni) Pau...

Steve Earle (right) in Coal Country at The Public Theater in New York City. (Photo: Joan Marcus) Steve Earle’s haunting, melodic folk...

Shia LaBeouf in Honey Boy . Shia LaBeouf does first-rate work in Honey Boy – not only as the leading actor but even more impressi...

Yehouda Chaki, 1503 , oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches. “I wonder if I'm the only one in the running business with this system of ...