NEW YORK: John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author, whose pioneering 1972 book “Ways of Seeing,” and the BBC series...
NEW YORK: “Make sure they know to play it loud,” the filmmaker Maren Ade advises ahead of a screening of her film, “Toni Erdmann.” Since its rollicking debut...
NEW YORK: We seem to be shooting our best movie stars into outer space with alarming frequency. George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Matt...
TORONTO: A movie has a way of sitting up straight whenever Sigourney Weaver is in it. With her intelligence and commanding presence, she jolts any film alive....
NEW YORK: Movie-wise, the office Christmas party is the great dismantler of white-collar worker-bee life. Set out the booze, turn down the lights, and...
NEW YORK: A melee has broken out in the boxing film. The genre’s ring is so crowded, a fighter leaning back for a left hook might inadvertently sock the...
NEW YORK: Deeply nostalgic moviemaking is rendered with digital precision in Robert Zemeckis’ highly manicured World War II romance...
NEW YORK: The filmmaker and playwright Kenneth Lonergan, a self-described “ultranaturalist” whose eloquently empathic stories tremble with the richness of...
NEW YORK: It’s starting to look a lot like the ’50s at the movies. That was when theaters, alarmed by the rise of television and newly freed from the...
NEW YORK: There are some wonderful idealistic films about American politics, warm with optimism and belief in Washington’s system. None of them resemble...
NEW YORK: “Cutting through the noise” is a phrase often uttered around Hollywood, where mammoth marketing budgets are routinely expended to reach...
NEW YORK: By a twist of fate, there are two infernos you can submerge yourself in this weekend. You can either take the Dan Brown audio tour of Florence and...
NEW YORK: The bean counter cometh. In Gavin O’Connor’s “The Accountant,” Ben Affleck stars as a paper-pushing CPA – roughly the exact opposite of...
NEW YORK: The modern studio comedy increasingly feels limp, suffocated by the financial imperatives of high-concept plots and desperately in search of signs...
NEW YORK: About 20 years ago, Andrew Knoll, a professor of natural history and NASA consultant, was sitting in his office at Harvard when he got a strange...
NEW YORK: Writer-director Richard Tanne’s feature film debut “Southside With You” views history through an unlikely, heart-shaped prism – Barack Obama and...
NEW YORK: Tate Taylor’s “The Girl on the Train” may be technically set in the Westchester suburb of Ardsley-on-Hudson, but its cocktail of...
NEW YORK: The question of “Where do babies come from?” has been answered, throughout movie history, with some unsavory characters. In the case of “Rosemary’s...
NEW YORK: Edward Snowden, who cast himself as the hero of his own spy movie, gets the real thing in Oliver Stone’s Hollywoodized biopic of the National...
NEW YORK: In “Sully,” Clint Eastwood’s haunted and sterile docudrama of Capt. Chesley Sullenberger’s 2009 landing of Flight 1549 on the Hudson, Eastwood has...
NEW YORK: Early in “Kubo and the Two Strings,” our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered...
NEW YORK: Gene Wilder was terrific when he was calm. But when he lost it, he was transcendent. Often playing opposite enormous performers like Zero Mostel and...
NEW YORK: “Festival fever” is the name the film industry gives to the inflated reception a movie can experience at a festival, where exuberant...
NEW YORK: The superhero movie is at a strange crossroads. It generally either takes itself too seriously (“Man of Steel,” “Batman v...
NEW YORK: Jason Bourne, as played by Matt Damon across four movies, is forever disappearing off the grid only to reluctantly resurface years later and again...