Critics At Large

Jean-Pierre Aumont and Annabella in Hôtel du Nord (1938). I look eagerly forward to the monthly announcements of the new Blu-Ray releases fr...

Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal in Aftersun . Aftersun  was inspired by the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’s memories of her father....

Bob Dylan, November 1961. (Photo: Michael Ochs) I. Many things matter about Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven So...

Matthew Maher and Daniel Zolghadri in Funny Pages . In the first scene of Funny Pages , a middle-aged man strips naked and hoists himself o...

Matt Bogart, Audrey Cardwell and Josh Breckenridge in Christmas in Connecticut . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) Christmas in Connecticut shows u...

The Hofesh Shechter Company performing Clowns . (Photo: Todd MacDonald) Terrific. It’s a word denoting terror and intensity of experience. B...

Svetlana Lunkina, Peng-Fei Jiang and Artists of the Ballet in Concerto . (Photo:Karolina Kuras, Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) A...

Stanisław Lem, Kraków, 1971. (Photo: Jakub Grelowsk) As for me, I am busy pointing my telescope through the bloody mist at a mirage of the ...

Photo: Maarten Vanden Abeele Within seconds, Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring has you by the throat, not letting go for close to 40 minutes of...

Paul Dano, Mateo Zoryan and Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans . The fallback of filmmakers who dramatize some version of their coming-of-ag...

Bob Dylan performing in stage in Los Angeles in 2012. (Photo: Chris Pizzello) I. Each of the 66 chapters in Bob Dylan ’s The Philosophy of ...

Micaela Diamond and Ben Platt in Parade at New York City Center. (Photo: Joan Marcus) The 1998 musical Parade , written by Alfred Uhry (book...

 Casey Likes and Solea Pfeiffer in Almost Famous . (Photo: Neal Preston) Affable and well-acted and entertaining as it is, I’ve always thou...

The Beatles in Abbey Road Studios during filming of the "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" promo films. (Photo: Apple Corps) ...

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, via PBS. Ken Burns ’s newest film, The U.S. and the Holocaust , is the most timely, dark, and pol...

14 Back: Hate, Fate, and the Summer of 78 (2018) takes us back to the 1978 World Series. After four championships this century, explaining t...

Bill Irwin in On Beckett. (Photo: Craig Schwartz ) At the top of On Beckett , the one-man show Bill Irwin brought to Boston last week in th...

Milkweed Editions, 2022.   “The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.” – Cheryl Strayed In her 2012 memoir...

A scene from the London production of Leopoldstadt , now on Broadway. (Photo: Marc Brenner) With a cast of twenty-six actors of all ages pl...

Carina-Kay Louchey and Max von Essen lead the cast of 42nd Street in the "Lullaby of Broadway" number. (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) ...