Critic’s Notebook

Are the Academy Awards dying?

The 98th Annual Academy Awards have come and gone, and the only issue in dispute is whether the movie industry’s [...]

Among film connoisseurs, one of the most abhorred techniques is the montage. Some critics consider it a cardinal sin, an [...]

A question came up recently whether the films “Parasite” (2019) and “Kinds of Kindness” (2024) should be considered comedies or [...]

World cinema has a long history of producing a wide array of political films that fall somewhere between light entertainment [...]

Though love truly is complicated, the adage still sounds like a cliché. Given the difficulty of speaking about love, it [...]

Barbie has had many names throughout the years. Twist and Turn Barbie tells what she’s capable of. Astronaut Barbie identifies [...]

During the pandemic, once thriving movie theaters suddenly turned into ghost towns. And even though many have reopened since then, [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson has proven he knows his way around the most inaccessible regions of the human heart. An explorer [...]

Nobody saw the blatant aggression coming. The world stood by in shock as the blow was delivered. Any progress towards [...]

At the beginning of “Viewing Booth,” the 2019 documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, there’s a reference made to author [...]

Wes Anderson is among the most vibrant directors American filmmaking has produced in the last few decades. With each of [...]

In late October, film-making faced its worst-case scenario. On the New Mexico set of the Western “Rust,” the actor Alec [...]