Saturday, July 25, 2026
"Hadestown," with its free-form jamboree vibe, its spontaneous swirl of musicians and dancers onstage, is as much a happening as it is a musical. It’s a show about ancient mythology — it…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Malek colors him in with shades of anger, tenderness, psychosis, and the sheer pesky individuality of Jimmy. He makes him a morosely charismatic flake — the kind of flamboyant narcissist w…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2026
In his Army jacket and lollipop-blue round sunglasses, with shaggy long sideburns, Lennon gives off a fascinating air of self-involved indifference, which is expressed in the fact that he’…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2026
"Lorne" lures us in with the mischievous playfulness of its tone. The premise of the movie is that Lorne Michaels is one of those rare showbiz figures known, almost mythologically, by just o…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2026
"Mother Mary," as it takes the leap into Gothic metaphysical fantasy, becomes almost completely incoherent, and stays that way. It's like an exorcist movie where the devil is a piece of bolt…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
In "The Drama," a squirm comedy that's supposed to hinge on the ultimate case of marital jitters, Robert Pattinson gives one of the twitchiest performances in the history of twitchy performa…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AM[SHARE]As a piece of stagecraft, "Dog Day Afternoon," directed by Mauk Kaufman, does a canny job of translating the film's action, keeping the flow taut and exciting. But it also does something tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2026
This is a terrific story because of how much we believe it. Rudd makes Rick a fully felt presence, a gifted musician with a dad-rock swagger about him, who's suddenly lost in the despair of …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Is it a horror movie? Not quite. It's a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l'amour fou, a renegade take-off on the "Frankenstein" mythology. And while the movie doesn't entirely work " it …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2026
The director, Polly Findlay (an acclaimed British stage director making her first feature), presents all of this in a stately and fastidious prestige-teleplay-of-the-week way. Adapting a 201…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2026
Considering all the horror movies I've seen, I'm a pretty easy jump scare. I can sit through the degraded slasher-film trash of the week, and when that formula shock cut arrives, synced to a…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
When you think of the great actors (Brando, Streep, De Niro, Ullmann, Day-Lewis), one of the first qualities that leaps to mind is range. Robert Duvall, who died Sunday at 95 and was most as…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 3, 2026
Is the hero of "Marty Supreme" likable? I think he is, and for reasons that include the fact that he's a scoundrel. (Has there ever been a likable scoundrel in movies? No! Not Once!) The num…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
"Wicked," the stage musical, took its first bow 22 years ago. The novel it's based on, "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," was published in 1995. All of that happen…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Released in 1987, "The Running Man" was a lumbering Arnold Schwarzenegger movie; you could say that Edgar Wright, the director of the deluxe new version, has made it into a decent Bruce Will…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2025
It's Perry's version of a holiday movie and a connect-the-dots love story, but it's cliché-driven in such a minimal way that it makes you long for the Perry movies that can feel like a nigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
We might look at Mike, in his overcoat of blue glitter, with his long hair cut and styled into a neatly parted Diamond pageboy, and Claire, in her spangled red dress with the gold piping, pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 25, 2025
The latest poster for "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" features a painting of Bruce Springsteen in concert, viewed from the side, his index finger held high in the air. If you examine …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
"Stiller & Meara" begins to morph from a likable entertainment-world profile into something more resonant " a nearly novelistic portrait of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara's life-and-art ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2025
She'll always be Annie Hall. The first time you see Diane Keaton, who died on Saturday at 79, in Woody Allen's great touchstone of a romantic comedy, she's walking into a tennis club, her ey…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
"Newport & the Great Folk Dream" is a rapturous documentary " elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The m…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
In the old days, when a movie drama had a topical urgency, we would say that it was "ripped from the headlines." But that phrase is now beyond quaint. Today we're in the age when a film with…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
You might say: Okay, those performers all got their start in "Godspell" " so what? But the niftiness of Davis's film is that it's about "Godspell," and it's about something bigger than "Gods…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2025
"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun " a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The whole real-time, hand-held-camera aesthetic of "Dead Man's Wire," which Van Sant brings off with astonishing flair, looks at Tony Kiritsis's actions "objectively." But beneath that it's …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 30, 2025
Ed, in "Late Fame," goes on a journey " into his past, but really into the question of whether who he was and what he was can still exist in the present.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
The show practically invites us to chuckle at the neatly interlocked way that a song like "Honey, Honey" or "Knowing Me, Knowing You" will dovetail with the (thin) motivation for singing it.…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2025
As a film critic, the question I get asked more than any other is, "What's your favorite movie?" For decades, I've given the same answer. But in the last 10 years or so, when I say, "My favo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
On TV, she presented herself as a fighting mensch, someone who could disarm you with that sympathetic twinkle in her eye. Yet off camera she could be ruthless. She burned through romantic re…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2025
"Everything's Going to Be Great" is a ramble, an unconvincing grab bag, a domestic tall tale with too much stuffed into it.
SOURCE: Variety at 04:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
"And So It Goes" is not a once-over-lightly, papering-over-the-dark-side portrait of a legendary pop star. It includes the warts, and more than that it shows you how Billy Joel's complicated…
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