Critics At Large

Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal in The History of Sound . (Photo: MUBI.) In The History of Sound Lionel Worthing and David White fall in ...

Laurence Lemieux in Anne : "...lives linger and ripple forward." (Photo: Jeremy Mimnagh.) Laurence Lemieux’s Anne is a work of el...

(Reaktion Books, University of Chicago Press.) “An element, we take it, is a body into which other bodies may be analyzed, present in them p...

I opted to listen to Barbra Streisand’s 2023 memoir, My Name Is Barbra , rather than reading it in hard copy so that I could hear her inimit...

The company of Forgiveness . (Photo: David House.) Stratford’s production of Forgiveness (at the Tom Patterson Theatre), Hiro Kanagawa’s ad...

Mary Antonini as Reno Sweeney and the cast of Anything Goes . (Photo: David Cooper.) This article includes reviews of musicals at the Shaw F...

Lee Min-ho (center) as Yoo Joonghyuk in Omniscient Reader: The Prophet . (All accompanying photos are stills from the movie's trailer.) ...

Gabriella Sundar Singh as Barbara Undershaft in the Shaw Festival's current production of Major Barbara . (Photo: David Cooper.) Is Majo...

From left: André Sills as Polixenes, Sara Topham as Hermione, and Graham Abbey as Leontes with members of the company of  The Winter's T...

André Breton claimed with these glasses he could see the future. He was right. (Photo: InLibris.) “How very hard to run a movement and be on...

Debra Winger in James Brooks'  Mike's Murder . (Ladd Company/Warner Bros.) James Bridges directed Debra Winger’s breakthrough perfor...

David Hyde Pierce and the cast of Pirates! The Penzance Musical . (Photo: Joan Marcus.) At sixty-six, David Hyde Pierce is so slender and li...

Ryan Mac and the company of All Shook Up . (Photo: Diane Sobolewski.) The current production of All Shook Up , Joe DiPietro’s parodic jukebo...

Superman (David Corenswet), looking glum. (Warners Brothers.)  The beginning of James Gunn’s new iteration of the Man of Steel is somewhat p...

(University of Texas Press.)                                   (Duke University Press.) “What remains to be said about an absence that canno...

Dakin Matthews as Pellinore and Ken Wulf Clark as King Arthur in Camelot . (Photo: Daniel Rader.) Over the years I’ve grown wary of revivals...

My coverage of short films has fallen off a bit lately, but I’m still keeping an eye out for interesting ones. Here are eight more since my ...

This round-up includes reviews of Adolescence , Good Night, and Good Luck and Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning , as well as a tribu...

(McGill/Queen's University Press.) “Much we long for what we lack, for what is closed within the grave, our treasure and triumph, our gl...

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night . (Criterion Collection.) Mark Harris’s wonderful book Pictures at a Revolution ...