Film Review: ‘Better Watch Out’
This macabre Christmas movie seems destined to become one of those Yuletide perennials for people who like their holiday-themed entertainment as perversely un-wholesome as possible.
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Annecy Review: ‘A Silent Voice’ (Koe no katachi)
An unconventional and psychologically probing animation on bullying told from the viewpoint of the bully.
Film Review: ‘American Folk’
A pulse-taking of America in a moment of shellshocked unity that now seems more remote than the terrorist plot itself.
Film Review: 'Wallflower'
This culture-clash snapshot provides a moving if also mysterious portrait of fragile mental health snapping tether entirely amidst an alien environ of blithe hedonism.
London Theater Review: ‘Anatomy of a Suicide’
The sins of the father revisited on the son — it's a stage staple that tracks back to Ancient Greece. From Captain Alving in Ibsen's “Ghosts” to Arthur Miller's arms-dealing Joe Keller in “All My…
Off Broadway Review: ‘Bella: An American Tall Tale’
Kirsten Childs’ high spirits are infectious. “Bella: An American Tall Tale,” a musical folk tale having its premiere at Playwrights Horizons, is her irresistible invitation to kick up your heels. Set…
Film Review: 'Who's Gonna Love Me Now?'
Blood is thicker than water, but blood is also the problem that flows through the veins of Barak and Tomar Heymann's sincere, moving documentary that won the Panorama Audience Award in Berlin. Now…
Theater Review: Trump-Like ‘Julius Caesar’
Brutus is a commanding figure in the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar.” The wily Mark Antony also looms large. But the most fearsome character in the show…
Film Review: ‘Cars 3’
“Cars,” back in 2006, was the first Pixar movie that was far more beloved by audiences than critics. That meant something, since Pixar had long been a critical darling. The movie struck many…
Film Review: ‘Mobile Homes’
French-born, NYU Tisch-educated director Vladimir de Fontenay's "Mobile Homes" is born out of a paradox: Inspired by the uniquely American sight of a prefab home rolling down the highway, its very…
TV Review: 71st Annual Tony Awards
Maybe it was inevitable that in the year after “Hamilton's” triumph, the Tony Awards would seem to be lacking in pizzazz. The 71st annual Tony Awards was, as always, a well-produced affair, stocked…
