Critics At Large

David Alvarez Ariana DeBose in West Side Story (2021). The enthusiasm over Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story , the street-gang r...

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos . I’ve always thought that you can’t predict when the talented, wildly erratic Nicole...

Harold Rosenberg: A Critic‘s Life by Debra Bricker Balken was published by University of Chicago Press in October. “At a certain moment the...

Kathleen Rea in Five Angels on the Steps . (Photo: David Hou) Toronto indie dancer Kathleen Rea has put her life – the good bits and the no...

Ahmad Maksoud, David Hyde Pierce and ensemble in The Visitor . (Photo: Joan Marcus) Tom McCarthy’s 2007 film The Visitor is focused on Walt...

Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien in All Too Well: The Short Film (2021), directed by Taylor Swift. That’s right – despite its name, All Too...

; Stephen Sondheim, New York, July 10, 1961. (Photo: Richard Avedon) Stephen Sondheim was ninety-one when he died on the day after Thanksgiv...

Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson in Passing . Making her directorial debut with an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing , Rebecca Ha...

Don van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart. (Photo: Andy Freeberg) Part One of Cracked Mirrors was published on this site on October 27, 2021. Th...

Artists of the Ballet in Angels ’ Atlas . (Photo: Johan Persson, Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) Excitement surrounding the retu...

Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux in No Time to Die . The James Bond pictures that Daniel Craig has starred in over the past decade and a half ...

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...