Critics At Large

Faraway places with strange sounding names  Far away over the sea Those faraway places . . . are calling, calling to me. They call me a drea...

Pierfrancesco Favino in The Traitor (Il traditore ) , directed by Marco Bellocchio. (Photo: Laura Siervi/Sony Pictures Classics) The Traito...

Meryl Streep and James Corden in The Prom , now streaming on Netflix. Early on in The Prom , director Ryan Murphy ’s new Netflix movie musi...

Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father . Florian Zeller ’s play The Father , about an aging man sinking into dementia, opened in ...

“There are quantities of human beings, but there are even more faces, for each person has several.” – Rainer Maria Rilke Everybody has one –...

Jefferson Mays in A Christmas Carol , available for streaming until January 3. (Photo: Chris Whitaker) There have been dozens and dozens of...

Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank . The film is now streaming on Netflix. This review contains spoilers. Pauline Kael ’s essay “Rai...

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...