Critics At Large

Zofia Wichlacz in World on Fire. This review contains spoilers. Watching the sprawling, emotionally gripping seven-part drama World...

A still from Three Sisters (1970). The reason you can keep looking at productions of the four Chekhov masterpieces – The Sea Gull , ...

Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Russia House (1990). When Australian director Fred Schepisi ’s 2001 film Last Orders came o...

Matthew Macfadyen and Hayley Atwell in the BBC's Howards End (2017). I approached the 2017 BBC adaptation of E.M. Forster’s 191...

Contre-Jour (Backlight) 2009/Festival of Gijon, 2010. Note: A shorter version of this article appeared in  Arcade Project Magazine  ...

Allen Garfield and Peter O'Toole in The Stunt Man (1980). Allen Garfield died on April 7 at the age of eighty, one of the early CO...

Saleema Nawaz, author of Songs for the End of the World . (Photo: Thomas Blanchard) “Society is still worth protecting, don’t you thin...

James Caan and Peter Boyle in Slither (1973) When those of us who lived through the great renaissance of American movies – that magic...

The lads, from The Beatles’ last photo session, in August 1969. (Photo: Ethan Russell) “And in the end, the love you take is equal to...

Jeremy Pope, Darren Criss, and Laura Harrier in Hollywood . now streaming on Netflix. This review contains spoilers. Ryan Murphy’s l...

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart in 1937. Moss Hart was an aspiring young playwright, still living in the Bronx with his family and wor...

Morgan Spector, Azhy Robertson, and Zoe Kazan in HBO's The Plot Against America . (Photo:Michele K. Short/HBO) It's about: W...

 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 ...