ReviewNEW YORK: It’s not hard to draw a straight line from Charles Dickens to Armando Iannucci. In each there’s a passion for human frailty and absurdity and,...
ReviewNEW YORK: For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” has endured. First published in 1911, it remains one of the great...
NEW YORK: The Toronto International film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup bearing little in common with its standard barrage of awards contenders and...
NEW YORK: Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand, will premiere across the major fall film festivals in an alliance forged by the Venice,...
NEW YORK: A long time ago in a pre-COVID universe far, far away, blockbusters opened around the globe simultaneously or nearly so. In 1975, "Jaws" set the...
ReviewNEW YORK: It was dirty work, Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of radium and polonium. To investigate uranium at their Paris laboratory, Marie acquired...
ReviewNEW YORK: Vaclav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” begins with utter bleakness. Over the course of its 169-minute running time, however, it keeps finding...
NEW YORK: The Telluride Film Festival, the annual film retreat held in the Colorado mountains and one of the fall movie season’s top launching pads, has been...
NEW YORK: When Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon handed in the book they had toiled on for eight years -- a satirical “anti-memoir” about Carrey’s life but with...
NEW YORK: Though most of the films that have debuted during the pandemic never got to screen for packed movie houses, "Palm Springs" had the kind of premiere...
NEW YORK: Anonymous sources in documentaries have often been reduced to a shadowy, voice-distorted figure -- or worse, a pixelated blur. A new HBO documentary...
ReviewNEW YORK: One of the most tragic lines in the powerful and damning documentary “Athlete A,” about sexual abuse in the USA Gymnastics, comes when gymnast...
NEW YORK: The Toronto International Film Festival, one of the leading launch pads for fall movies and Oscar contenders, announced plans for a smaller 2020...
NEW YORK: Joel Schumacher, the eclectic and brazen filmmaker who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen...
ReviewNEW YORK: No movie that features Judi Dench as a fairy who says “Get the four-leaf clover out of here” can be all bad, but the big-budget adaptation of...
NEW YORK: Spike Lee was just 10 when Muhammad Ali, in 1967, refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War. It wasn’t his fight, Ali said then. The Vietnamese...
ReviewNEW YORK: Josephine Decker’s prickly, unnerving “Shirley,” is set mostly in the Bennington, Vermont, home of the reclusive writer Shirley Jackson...
NEW YORK: From an empty movie theater in Paris, organizers of the Cannes Film Festival have announced the films that would have played at there in May had it...
NEW YORK: It’s not the first time that Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” has been freshly urgent, but Lee’s 1989 film has again found blistering relevance in...
ReviewNEW YORK: “The Vast of Night,” a micro-budget noir set in 1950s New Mexico, crackles with B-movie electricity. The film is one of those little miracles:...
ReviewNEW YORK: Most franchises that have made it to four films have by then traipsed the galaxy, pulled off a series of daring heists or freed Willy many...
ReviewNEW YORK: Even before darker anxieties took hold, the bad guys of “Scooby-Doo” were charmingly quaint. An evil circus owner, a grumpy civil servant, a...
NEW YORK: When many were rushing to rewatch “Contagion,” Steven Soderbergh’s eerily prophetic 2011 film about the outbreak of an easily transmitted virus, I...
ReviewNEW YORK: During lockdown, have you taken a moment to appreciate that at least you’re not quarantined with eight free-thinking adventurers in a...
ReviewNEW YORK: Joe Robert Cole’s “All Day and a Night” is a tough and anguished drama that somberly spirals around the circular tragedies of crime and...