Critics At Large

Milo Machado Graner in Anatomy of a Fall . The gripping French film Anatomy of a Fall may be the most unconventional courtroom thriller I’v...

Photo by Christophe Raynaud deLage. In a six-day run at Boston’s Paramount Theater under the auspices of Arts Emerson , the Norwegian comp...

Hinata Hiiragi and Soya Kurokawa in Monster . The movies of the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda are not just different from those of ot...

KAIROS Records, 2023. “Whatever you think can’t be done, someone will come along and do.” – Thelonious Monk “Don’t play the piano part, I’m...

The heron in Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron . One of the cinematic high points of 2023 was surely the great Japanese animator H...

Taraji P. Henson in one of her spectacularly ugly costumes she wear in The Color Purple . Why are most of the recent movie musicals so ghast...

Dominic Sessa and Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers . The review of The Holdovers contains spoilers. In The Holdovers a prodigiously bright ...

Mireille Asselin as Eurydice, with Artist of Atelier Ballet Xi Yi, in Orpheus and Eurydice . (Photo: Bruce Zinger) Life after death? The qu...

Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in  Fair Play . There’s nothing wrong with the kind of movie Fair Play purports to be, but there’s eve...

Arnold Schoenberg, MS 96. “It’s all about starting in the middle of a musical sentence and then moving in both directions at once.” – John C...

Natalie Gold, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Michael Esper, Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll in Appropriate . (Photo: Joan Marcus) A magnificent cast und...

Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey in Fellow Travelers . (Photo: Ben Mark Holzberg) Matt Bomer has a personal triumph in the role of Hawk Full...

Judy Kuhn and Santino Fontana in I Can Get It for You Wholesale . (Photo: Sara Krulwich) The composer-lyricist Harold Rome, who died in 19...

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...