Thursday, May 21, 2026
Virginia Woolf’s interior epic “Mrs Dalloway” survives — and thrives — following a surprisingly successful transplantation from London to Lagos in brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2026
If Jane Schoenbrun is feeling the pressures of being their generation’s highest-profile trans filmmaker, it shows in only the most enjoyably defiant of ways in Un Certain Regard opener …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2026
Only a species suffering from terminal main character syndrome would, when describing intimately human experiences like love, reach for the language of global cataclysm. Tsunami, earthquake,…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:56PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2025
"I get along without you very well," sings Nina Simone in her beautiful, grazed voice at a pivotal moment in Isabel Coixet's "Three Goodbyes," a glimmering drama adapted from a short story c…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2025
The paperback of "Straight Outta Scotland" by Gavin Bain, which tells the real-life yarn on which James McAvoy's directing debut is based, boasts a cover quote from the patron saint of worki…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
Complexity is key to the flavor profile of a good single-malt whisky. Top notes, middle notes and low notes, and different combinations of minerals, spices, smoke and salt make each sip trig…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
In the beginning, wars are measured in days. As the days become weeks and months, however, different metrics take over: materiel use; meters of territory won and lost; climbing numbers of ca…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2025
It is said that Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, the leading lady of the Italian stage in the late 19th/early 20th century, was an intensely private, introverted woman who once told a journalist…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:01PM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
Sex, sexism, aging, celebrity, social class, suicide, churchgoing, anti-Roma bigotry, the emergence of a new geopolitical world order and the now rather tarnished lustre of EU membership: Is…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Bones; earth; worker; murderer. These are not words that any language course would suggest as the basic building blocks for communication in a new tongue. But for Spanish-speaking Teresa (a …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
The pleasures and the pitfalls of a hybrid format are both in evidence in French actress-turned-director Romane Bohringer's "Tell Her I Love Her," a plaintive, affecting account of her strug…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2022
It is hard to watch the brutalization of women on screen, especially when you know it is a re-creation of an actual crime. But it is harder still " rightly, valuably so " if you've been made…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2022
From Shakespeare's dithering Dane to Desperate Housewives' steely-eyed Bree, our critics serve up the coldest revenge dishes
In Desperate Housewives, when her gay son, Andrew, sleeps with he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2016
Despite evident good intentions, and some excellent interviewees, this is a frustrating effort in many ways, not least of which is its slightly misleading title, which suggests a more contem…
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