Critics At Large

Catherine Hessling and Harold Levingston in Whirlpool of Fate (1925). Kino’s release of Whirlpool of Fate and Nana is a boon to Jean Renoir...

Shamier Anderson, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, and Toni Collette in Stowaway (2021). “To Build a Fire,” Jack London’s most anthologized ...

“Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is the negation of the ideal.”– Gustave Courbet, 1830. Given the al...

Nina Hoss in The Audition (2019) The focus of the German actress Nina Hoss is so precise and intense it’s almost freaky: when she levels ...

Diary / Gisoo Kim , stitched yarn on photo-collage, 2020. (Gisoo Kim) “Avant-garde art is yoga for the mind.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen Human ...

Mira Sorvino and Jay Rodan in The Triumph of Love (2001). “ One can do almost anything for love,” the aging art historian Basil Sharp (Seba...

Ewan McGregor and Krysta Rodriguez in Halston , now streaming on Netflix. Ewan McGregor does the finest work in his career in the title ro...

New and recent works by Fabiana Salomao, featured in her studio solo exhibition at 468 Queen Street East in Toronto, June 10-30 2021.  (All ...

Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera in In the Heights . You know you’re in trouble at the opening of In the Heights , the new movie of Lin-Ma...

Yoshiaki Hanayagi and Kinuyo Tanaka in Sansho the Bailiff (1954). “A slave becoming a governor, that’s a true fairy tale!” – Sansho to Zushi...

Published by Reaktion Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press. “The Who began as a spectacle. Then they became spectacular. They a...

Jean-Pierre Léaud and Chantal Goya in Masculine Féminin (1966). Between 1960 and 1967 Jean-Luc Godard made fifteen features, all of them vi...

Salim Dau and Jeff Wilbusch in Oslo . . Given the peculiarly insulated nature of theatre, despite its success on Broadway too few people ar...

Chuck Samuels: Becoming Photography (Kerber Verlag, 2021).   “From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one pra...

Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur in History Is Made at Night (1937). There are romantic comedies that veer into high comedy (like Ernst Lubits...

Amy Adams in The Woman in the Window (2021). In Joe Wright ’s creepy new chiller The Woman in the Window , Amy Adams gives a splendid, un...

Dreamwalk , Mimi Gellman, Edward Day Gallery, Giclee print, 2002. (Image courtesy of the artists) Note: All images are courtesy of the artis...

Holliday Grainger and Tom Burke in C.B. Strike . I fell for J.K. Rowling ’s Cormoran Strike detective novels at the beginning of the serie...

Lauren Cuthbertson and Federico Bonelli in the Royal Opera House's 2017 production of  Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wond...

George Segal in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). When George Segal died at eighty-seven on March 23, most people would have recogniz...