Critics At Large

Lea Michele in Funny Girl . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) The Broadway revival of Funny Girl is a hit, but its path has been slippery. Michael M...

Cate Blanchett with Zethphan D. Smith-Gneist in Tár . Todd Field’s T ár is one of those self-important, self-promoting movies of the moment...

“Ever since Adam, who has really gotten the meaning of this great allegory—the world?” – Herman Melville, 1851 “Any sufficiently advanced te...

Jessica Lange in Marlowe . The Irish writer John Banville’s The Black-Eyed Blonde , published in 2014 and the source of the new Neil Jordan ...

Charles Laughton in The Suspect (1944). Robert Siodmak began his filmmaking career in Germany, hot-footed it to France when Hitler came to ...

(Courtesy Ecco Press/Harper Collins);(Wordsworth Editions) “Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are.” – Sancho Panza, Don Qui...

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin . Set on an island off the coast of Ireland in the early 1920s, the era of th...

 Olivia Colman in Sam Mendes's Empire of Light . In Sam Mendes ’s Empire of Light , Olivia Colman plays Hilary, the assistant manager o...

Federico Ielapi as Pinocchio and Marine Vacth as The Blue Fairy in Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019). Those with fond memories of the 1...

Author and film critic Charles Taylor. (Photo: Lelia McCabe) I've long been a fan of 1970s American movies,  a time when American cinem...

Christian Borle & J. Harrison Ghee in Some Like It Hot . (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) The best romantic comedy released in the early fiftie...

“Comedy equals tragedy plus time.” – Dorothy Parker (among others). “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” – George Burns (on his deathbed). Hav...

Adrianne Krstansky (far left), Michael Kaye, and Rom Barkhordar (far right) in The Art of Burning . (Photo: T Charles Erickson) Kate Snodg...

Art censorship, especially in cases that did not involve printed books, also once again reveals the limitations and often fortui...

Siphesihle November and Jason Ferro in Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM . (Photo:Bruce Zinger; Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) "B...

Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton and Viggo Mortensen in Thirteen Lives . This piece includes reviews of Thirteen Lives , The Good Nurse , Glass...

Eric Yang, Jinn S. Kim, and Amy Kim Waschke in The Far Country. (Photo: Ahron R. Foster) The Far Country , recently produced by the Atlant...

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...