Critics At Large

Jack O'Connell and Stephen Graham in The North Water . Set in the 1860s on an English whaling ship that meets disaster in Arctic waters,...

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog , currently streaming on Netflix. Reading the rapturous reviews of The Power of the Dog is a ...

Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk in Company . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) There’s something undeniably poignant about seeing a Sondheim musical abo...

Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe in Belfast . Watching the black-and-white trailers for Belfast , Kenneth Branagh ’s fictionalized memoir o...

Yoko Ono; Paul McCartney.              Yoko One, "Death of Samantha,"  Approximately Infinite Universe , 1973. The Firemen,  Stra...

Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter . When first-rate actors turn into directors, one thing you can usually count on is the quality of the p...

Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley . William Lindsay Gresham’s tough, darkly lyrical 1946 novel Nightmare Alley moves from...

(University of Chicago Press) “Objects have the longest memories of all. Beneath their stillness, they are alive with all the terrors they h...

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...