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In Steven Soderbergh's film, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are superbly matched as two skilled painters who find their way from slippery deception to common ground.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
In Rian Johnson's latest whodunnit, Josh O'Connor plays a Catholic priest trying to restore moral order at a church befouled by murder.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:54PM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
In Chloé Zhao's film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's novel, the death of a child gives rise to the creation of a literary masterpiece.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
In the second of two movies adapted from the Broadway musical, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo battle fascism, bigotry, and some fairly dreadful filmmaking.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 07:10PM[SHARE]Mascha Schilinski's dark, century-spanning ensemble drama sees four generations of women take up spectral residence in a German farmhouse.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
The latest reanimation of Mary Shelley's classic tale, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, is a labyrinthine tour of a filmmaker's career-long obsessions.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 07:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2025
In Sarah Friedland's début feature, Kathleen Chalfant plays an octogenarian with dementia adapting to the constraints and possibilities of assisted living.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
In Celine Song's follow-up to "Past Lives," Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2024
With a musical return to Oz and a bloody epic of ancient Rome, Hollywood studios double down on blockbuster spectacle.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
There was no one like Aretha Franklin, and this knockout chronicle of the recording sessions for "Amazing Grace" captures her powers at their peak.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:24PM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2017
We were warned not to miss a moment of Jimmy Fallon's Golden Globes opening number, which some had accurately predicted would be an extended tribute to "La La Land." And why not? Damien C…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
If the first "Star Wars" (1977) hadn't already been rebranded "A New Hope," that optimistic title might have applied just as well to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," by any measure a rousing,…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:52AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
Come back, come back, wherever you are, David Mamet. All is forgiven (even “Race”) if you will just quit jerking us around on non-plays like “China Doll” and get a gr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07AM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
A sharply drawn portrait of a dysfunctional artistic family that effectively speaks to the troubled legacy all parents (Plunkett & Walken) bequeath to their children (Kidman & Bateman). Bea…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Variety critics talk the can’t-miss pics at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — and attempt to do so in 140 characters or less. (Click image for large preview.)
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2014
This sloppy, boisterous "X Factor" spoof is a splashy, flashy tonal mess that just about succeeds.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2014
James Dearden turns his own 1987 screenplay into a dreary, clunky stage drama laboriously helmed by Trevor Nunn.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:25PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Frederick Weller and the ever-astonishing Tyne Daly bring considerable humanity to Terrence McNally's diffuse and disjointed new play.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2014
This reverential revival of the long-runner Broadway hit is a solid piece of theatrical architecture.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
Bryan Cranston owns the role of LBJ in this beautifully built dramatic piece.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2014
Bruce Ramsay directs and stars in a modestly inventive but curiously bloodless version of the Bard's timeless tragedy.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
"Frozen," a musical about two princesses? You wouldn't know it from the Mouse House's advertising strategy, aimed at concealing everything remarkable about Disney's splendid new animated fea…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2013
Doug Hamilton's engaging backstage doc offers a straightforward account of "American Idiot's" journey to the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wouldn’t we all kill to be invited to a dinner party at Sue Mengers’? But, as Bette Midler puts it so plainly to the auds at her solo show, “Of course I would ask you to st…
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