Critics At Large

Hannah Galway and Siphesihle November in Emma Bovary . (Photo: Karolina Kuras/Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) Emma Bovary ran at...

Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez in Merrily We Roll Along . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Every time there’s a new edition of...

Elizabeth Marvel and John Turturro in Sabbath's Theater . (Photo: Jeenah Moon) Devoted as I am to Philip Roth ’s novels, I had trouble...

Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. Killers of the Flower Moon is great around the edges. Martin Scorsese ’...

Lucien Clergue, Portrait (1956). “Mystery is the essential ingredient of every work of art.” – Luis Buñuel Who and what do we see when we st...

Daniel Lamont and James Norton in Nowhere Special . The Irish movie Nowhere Special came out in 2020 but never made it to these shores. A ...

 Michael Gambon as the ailing writer in The Singing Detective (1986). Michael Gambon, the towering English actor who died on September 27 at...

Kevin Courrier (1954-2018) Five years ago today, on October 12, 2018, Critics At Large lost one of its leading voices, Kevin Courrier . Ke...

“Silence is the potential from which music can arise.” – Keith Jarrett  Meteors are among the rarest objects on earth and have left a perva...

Reed Birney and Karen Allen in Lunar Eclipse . (Photo: Maggie Hall) The new play by Donald Margulies , whose wide range of works includes S...

Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot once again, in A Haunting in Venice . A Haunting in Venice is the third Hercule Poirot adaptation writte...

Album cover art: Bjorn Vandenneucker “What is typical of our century and largely promoted by the media, is the general belief that everythin...

Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer . Christopher Nolan makes his bid for movie posterity with Oppenheimer . His three-...

Ann Patchett's new novel Tom Lake was published by Harper in August 2023. (Photo: Emily Doriot) “There are the stars – doing their old,...

Jeff Bridges and Alan Arkin in Hearts of the West (1975). Alan Arkin died on June 29, two years after he was killed off on his penultimat...

Hachette Books, 2022; Hachette Books, 2022. “How does it feel, to be on your own, a complete unknown, with no direction home . . .” – Bob Dy...

Mike Nadajewski and Kristi Frank in On the Razzle . (Photo: Emily Cooper) This piece includes reviews of On the Razzle , Blithe Spirit and ...

Marla McLean and Qasim Khan in The Playboy of the Western World . (Photo: Emily Cooper) In the preface to his 1907 masterpiece The Playboy o...

Corbin Bleu and the dancers in Summer Stock . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski) Summer Stock, released in 1950, followed a particularly unhappy tim...

Carol Burnett and Joe Bova in the original Broadway production of Once Upon a Mattress (1959). Mary Rodgers, the daughter of the legendary B...