Critics At Large

Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile was published by Crown Publishers in February. (Photo: Nina Subin) Pandemic or not, culture co...

Invocation Democracy , a virtual exhibition Curated by Monet Clark for Pro Arts Commons in Oakland California. October 30, 2020 - January 20...

Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso and Amy Adams in Hillbilly Elegy . (Photo: Lacey Terrell/Netflix) It’s hard to believe that Ron Howard, the ski...

Critics At Large 's Deirdre Kelly wins the 2020 Nathan Cohen Award for Outstanding Review. (Photo:  McKenzie James) The Canadian Theatr...

Sean Connery (1930-2020) in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Everyone knows that Sean Connery, who died on Halloween at the age of ninety, beca...

Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen's Gambit . (Photo: Phil Bray/Netflix) At first, maybe even second, the hit new Netflix miniseries The Queen...

Migrant (Pythalo Blue Green) (2020), oil and acrylic on panel, 20 x 16 inches. The Ambient Paintings of Bernadette Jiyong Frank , July 9-Au...

Nahéma Ricci and Rachida Oussaada in Antigone (2019). In 1944, occupied Paris saw the premiere of Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of Sophocles’ An...

Soumitra Chatterjee in Charulata (1964). Soumitra Chatterjee – the name of the Bengali actor who left us on November 15, at eighty-five, of ...

Happy Holiday by Agnes Martin, 1999, oil and graphite on canvas, five feet square (Tate Gallery) “I paint with my back to the world.” – Agn...

Bill Murray and Rashida Jones in On the Rocks . . This article contains reviews of On the Rocks, A Rainy Day in New York, My Octopus Teacher...

Luca Marinelli in Martin Eden (2019). Jack London’s 1909 novel Martin Eden is the story of a Bay Area sailor who falls in love with an arist...

Harvest of Memory , Bea Nettles (University of Texas Press) “I see my career as a spiral with my ideas always circling and picking up reflec...

Caitlin Fitzgerald, Alan Metoskie, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch, Sasha Baron Cohen and Noah Robbins in The Trial of the Chi...

Jerry Jeff Walker, 1942-2020. (Photo: Paul Natkin) Jerry Jeff Walker, who succumbed on October 23, at seventy-eight, to the throat cancer th...

Jim Parsons, Robin de Jesus, Michael Benjamin Washington and Andrew Rannells in The Boys in the Band (2020), now streaming on Netflix.   The...

  “Filmmaking is more athletics than art and filmmaking comes from the thighs.” – Werner Herzog, 2011. Yes, this is an art review, even tho...

A scene from Barbara Kopple's Desert One . Operation Eagle Claw, the aborted attempt by a Delta Force crew in April 1980 to rescue fifty...

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in Frederick Wiseman's City Hall . Still turning out documentaries at ninety, Frederick Wiseman is one of the ...

No 2. (2020), acrylic, Plexiglas, goldleaf on aluminum, 8 x 8 inches (Odon Wagner Gallery). “If we keep our eyes open in a totally dark plac...