Critics At Large

Matthew Mcfadyen and Colin Firth in Operation Mincemeat . For anyone who follows British actors – and that includes just about everybody I ...

The Sublime Void (Ludion Press, Antwerp / DAP, 1993); Art in the Age of Anxiety (MIT Press/Morel Books, 2021) “Perhaps it was always lik...

The cast of Epiphany . (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) The new Brian Watkins play Epiphany , which closed last weekend at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. N...

A scene from Ottó Foky’s Scenes with Beans (1976). It’s been a year and a half since my last shorts roundup , and the pandemic is still o...

Laakan McHardy and Jeremy Beck in Chains . (Photo: Todd Cerveris) The Mint Theater Company, an off-Broadway house in the business of revivi...

Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly in Top Gun: Maverick . Top Gun , which came out in 1986, was a Reagan-era special if there ever was one. It h...

Allison Blackwell, Jarvis B Manning Jr., Maiesha McQueen, Arnold Harper II and Anastacia McCleskey in Ain't Misbehavin' . (Photo: Da...

Jude Law and Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore . The third chapter of the Fantastic Beasts series, The Secrets of Du...

Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman and Robert Pattinson as Batman in The Batman . (Photo: Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros.) In his 1957 architectonic study ...

Nima Rakhshanifar and Henry Stram in Andy Warhol in Iran . (Photo: Daniel Rader) The first play to be mounted on Barrington Stage Company ’...

from left: Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once . Theories of the multiverse go as far back to...

Aline Mayagoitia as Sally Bowles in Goodspeed's Cabaret . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) One of the most exasperating developments of the las...

Red Army II , 2022 digital print on metal, 48 x 48 inches. “Art ceases to be solely a form of self-expression alone in the electronic age. I...

Željko Ivanek (left) and Michael Moriarty in Law & Order , "American Dream" The recent reboot of Law & Order is singularl...

Christopher House in New Tricks . (Photo: Ömer Yükseker) Canadian modern dance innovator and Order of Canada recipient Christopher House o...

The cast of The Minutes , the new play by Tracy Letts at New York's Studio 54. This is a review of The Minutes. It includes spoilers. ...

Harrison James and Heather Ogden with artists of the National Ballet of Canada in The Sleeping Beauty . (Photo: Teresa Wood) As a harbinger ...

Nude portraits of antique clocks without their hands, silently holding their vigil and thus calmly reminding us of Henri Bergson’s bold 1911...

 Bboyizm dancers in Crazy Smooth’s  In My Body . (Photo: Jerrick Collantes) Hip hop is a ruthlessly athletic dance form that pushes the bod...

Ivan Trojan and Juraj Loj in Charlatan . Agnieszka Holland ’s Charlatan is based on the little-known story of Jan Mikolášek (an authoritati...