Critics At Large

Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain , which had a brief life in art...

Brian Wilson in action, 1966. “The men and women who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose c...

 Germaine Greer and Norman Mailer in Town Bloody Hall (1979). Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s Town Bloody Hall (1979) is an unauthori...

Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore (foreground) in Devi (1960). By the nineties, the films of the great Indian director Satyajit Ray w...

Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in Dune (2021). Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One , co-written with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth, has ma...

James Norton in Mr. Jones (2019). Since most new movies since the lockdown have shown up on the ever-expanding list of streaming platforms...

Natasha Poon Woo and Larkin Miller in Touch . (Photo: Dahlia Katz) Physical contact – what we all once took for granted – has become a preci...

Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis (2012). Fresh off filming the final Twilight film (2012), Robert Pattinson jumped straight into portraying ...

Jennifer Hudson in Respect . Jennifer Hudson is probably giving a truly great performance as Aretha Franklin in Respect , but the movie is...

Introduction:  Welcome to My World “When I’m singing, I’m happy. I’m doing what I can do, and this is my contribution to life . . .” – Anit...

Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams in Take This Waltz (2011). The opening and closing images of Take This Waltz , of Margot ( Michelle William...

Goldner Ildiko (left) ; Carrie Meijer (right) “Paintings are music you can look at. Music is painting you can listen to.” – Miles Davis. I h...

Merab Ninidze and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Courier . Benedict Cumberbatch has one of his best roles in The Courier (available on Amazon ...

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight (2008). I confess: I too used to shit freely on Twilight (2008) . What started changing my...

Emilia Jones in CODA . The last half hour of CODA (playing in theatres and on Apple TV+), about the hearing daughter of a deaf family of G...

Jasna Djuricic in Quo Vadis, Aida? This article contains reviews of Quo Vadis, Aida?, Uncle Frank and Georgetown. Quo Vadis, Aida? , set at...

Camille Cottin in Stillwater . There are two terrific scenes early on in Stillwater , the new movie from director Tom McCarthy. Matt Damon ...

Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley in My Salinger Year . Margaret Qualley was frighteningly good as Pussycat, the Manson girl who hitche...

Robert Downey and Poly in Dolittle . Dolittle received punitive reviews when it showed up on Prime last year, but I decided to check it out...

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...