Critic’s Notebook

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 [...]

If you look for it, you can see it. Just as the house lights dim, and right before the instant [...]

I was always a fan of apocalypse movies. Not the kind that overwhelms you with monsters and aliens, and special [...]

If widescreen Hollywood ever had just cause to lapse into melancholy about its future prospects, that time is now. With [...]

In H.G. Wells’s 1897 “The Invisible Man,” Griffin, a scientist and student of optics, carries out a rogue experiment to [...]

Perhaps the best way of approaching Sam Mendes's hell-on-earth World War I saga "1917" is by describing its uncomplicated premise. [...]

Fernando Meirelles's "The Two Popes" should have been a stage play. In such a play, with Jonathan Pryce as the [...]

In Mitzi Pierone's sorcery and female-brokered horror, two on-the-lam city drug dealers — Petula (Imogen Waterhouse) and Tilda (Sasha Hay) [...]