In an industry where even "Weird Al" Yankovic has a movie about his life story, it's about time the Boss got his due. But "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" isn't just another assembly-l…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PM[SHARE]No city on earth feels more like the mythical land of Oz than Las Vegas, with its tacky towers and the hordes of dreamers who make the trek, desperately hoping to have their wishes granted "…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:10AM[SHARE]There have been 36 years, roughly 40 million divorces and a seismic cultural shift (or several) since Danny DeVito's dark, down-with-love comedy "The War of the Roses" pitted Kathleen Turner…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]The title's a problem, but it would be a crying shame to let that discourage you from seeing "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," which is precisely the sort of intelligent, human-scale adu…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:20PM[SHARE]Just as "My Beautiful Laundrette" launched a little-known English actor named Daniel Day-Lewis, the London-set "Unicorns" spotlights up-and-coming talent Ben Taylor (whose minor roles in "Bo…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:06PM[SHARE]Of Paolo Genovese's 2016 Italian phenom "Perfect Strangers," the original Variety review warned "remakes will be rampant," and sure enough, Guinness made it official last fall: The hooky dra…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PM[SHARE]Some people simply aren't made to be mothers. That idea, which runs counter to social expectations in nearly every culture on earth, has inspired a provocative strand of unconventional famil…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45AM[SHARE]Whereas Hollywood has told and retold "A Star Is Born" so many times as to make trite its plot " of a preternaturally gifted young female singer whose career is simultaneously encouraged and…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]So much goes unspoken in "Broken Voices," Czech director OndÅ™ej ProvaznÃk's nuanced retelling of the notorious sex scandal that rocked the Bambini di Praga girls choir, rechristened C…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22AM[SHARE]When George Orwell published "Animal Farm" 80 years ago, he intended the book " in which barnyard animals rebel against their human overlords to create an egalitarian society, only to slide …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:09PM[SHARE]Witticist-lyricist Lorenz Hart would cringe at the pun, but "Blue Moon" is nothing if not a funny valentine to the tortured (closeted, Jewish, alcoholic, diminutive) songwriter who died in 1…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PM[SHARE]Boundaries are constantly blurring in "Kiss of the Spider Woman," the revolutionary mid-'80s film that became a Kander and Ebb musical, and that cunningly (and stunningly) morphs back to the…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:26AM[SHARE]In "The Wizard of Oz," there can be no doubt which witch is the worst witch: That would be the one with the army of flying monkeys, who melts upon contact with water. But in "Wicked," the gr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]A hundred years ago, before email and social media found ways to slap us in the face with unsolicited obscenity on a daily basis, the quiet English town of Littlehampton was scandalized by a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30PM[SHARE]All for one and … two for all? In a bold move, French film studio Pathé (together with partners in Germany, Spain and Belgium) bet nearly $80 million on an all-star, double-barreled adapt…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]As a critic, I'm always looking for a fresh challenge, which is one reason I took up writing about theater: It still has the capacity to scare me. I've reviewed nearly 1,700 movies in my tim…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PM[SHARE]If you've ever seen Mike Birbiglia before, whether on stage or screen (or a couple months back, filling in for Jimmy Kimmel), then "The Old Man and the Pool" feels like catching up with an o…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:19PM[SHARE]The trick of stage acting comes in playing the same thing every night as if it were happening for the first time, right there in front of the audience's eyes. But once-controversial American…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Debuting on opening night of the Cannes Film Festival a full year after it was originally expected to appear, "Annette" arrives on a pedestal from which it's too easily toppled. This latest …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:49AM[SHARE]Perhaps it's time for another meeting between officials from Israel and Palestine like the series of off-the-books negotiations that took place in Oslo, Norway, back in 1993. Those sessions …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:02PM[SHARE]Even after a year of indoor theaters being shuttered in Los Angeles, it's hard to imagine a future without the ArcLight Hollywood, the tony 15-screen megaplex that countless Angelenos consid…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45PM[SHARE]Magic never works the same way in movies that it does in person, which is not to say that it doesn't work in movies. It just takes a different kind of finesse, typically relying on editing a…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13AM[SHARE]It started with a hunch. Edith Pretty and her husband bought a house at Sutton Hoo, the estate of which contained several large mounds of earth. For years, there had been theories about what…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:26PM[SHARE]A colleague who teaches recently pointed out a surprising insight into the current generation of university-age students: According to an informal show-of-hands poll she conducted, hardly an…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PM[SHARE]What function do superhero stories play in American society? Are they merely escapist distractions for head-in-the-clouds teens, or could those same formats actually serve a practical functi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:10PM[SHARE]How much can you change "Cinderella" before it is no longer "Cinderella"? In the case of choreography maestro Matthew Bourne " who, it should be said, first unveiled his spin on the classic …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PM[SHARE]When people say a movie feels like a play, they often mean it as a kind of insult " less showy than talky, self-contained, more concerned with ideas than authenticity " but in the case of "L…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:49PM[SHARE]Cooper may have achieved movie star status before getting the chance to direct "Â "luckily, in the end," he says " but that gave the actor time to find his voice before making "A Star Is B…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20AM[SHARE]Anyone who loves musical theater owes it to themselves to see "Bathtubs Over Broadway," a delightful deep-dive documentary into one man's obsession with the obscure world of industrial music…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:24PM[SHARE]The question arises every year: When is the right time to toss the fake spider webbing and carved pumpkins in favor of inflatable snowmen and fiberglass reindeer? Must you wait until Thanksg…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:40PM[SHARE]The less you know about the Temptations, the more you'll get out of "Ain't Too Proud," a finger-snapping, hand-clapping new jukebox musical passing through Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre en r…
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