Critics At Large

Genevieve Penn Nabity and Christopher Gerty in The Four Seasons . Gerty was injured and replaced by Larkin Miller in the performance our cri...

Peter Sarsgaard (left) and cast in September 5 . (Photo: Paramount.) We are pleased to welcome a new critic, Nick Braccia, to Critics at Lar...

David Lynch in the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life (2016). A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of l...

Portrait of William S. Burroughs by Lance Austin Olsen. “Language is a virus.” W. B. William S. Burroughs’ supernal and subterranean Beat in...

Kwaku Okyere, Louise Lambert, Sarah Murphy-Dyson and Nickeshia Garrick in People, Places and Things  (Photo: Elana Emer) Duncan Macmillan’s ...

Kirsten McKinnon as Christine (played by Kirsten Leblanc at the performance our critic saw) in  La Reine-Garçon . (Photo: Michael Cooper.) A...

Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in Maybe Happy Ending . The musical Maybe Happy Ending is first surprising, then charming, and finally touchi...

Marianne Faithfull. (Photo: Peter Seeger.) “The men and women who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosp...

Tye Sheridan and Jude Law in The Order . The Order (available on Apple+), based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherh...

Missagh Zareh and Soheila Golestani in Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig . Part political chronicle, part thriller and part...

The cast of Last Landscape . (Photo by Fran Chudnoff.) A droning litany of environmental crises emanates from a laptop in a cramped, cardboa...

Flow . (Courtesy of Janus Films.) Flow : This gorgeous-looking animated film from Latvia, written by Gints Zilbalodis and Matiss Kaza and d...

“You are what you contemplate, so choose wisely.” --Machado de Assis Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press. This new entry into the mod...

I have a confession: for eighteen months, I’ve been addicted to Sixteen Tons Entertainment’s Emergency (2023, a.k.a. Emergency [Free to Play...

Elliott Heffernan and Saiorse Ronan in Steve McQueen's Blitz . (Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Apple TV+.) Steve McQueen’s film Blitz , set in...

Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown . (Photo: Macall Polay. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.) Long conflicted on its subject, I was rel...

The cast of House . From left: Omar Epps, Olivia Wilde, Robert Sean Leonard, Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Jesse Spencer, Jennifer Morrison, ...

“My desire was not to compose, but to project sounds into time, free from any compositional rhetoric. Music which specifically defined pitch...

From left: Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Bill Irwin, Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz, and Jessica Hecht in Eureka Day . (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Eureka...

Director and cast member David Verbeek in An Impossibly Small Object . An Impossibly Small Object (2017), Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek’s s...