Critic’s Notebook

In a year in cinema dominated by both race and films “based on a true story,” “Cold War,” filmed in [...]

After a first enigmatic scene —buckets of soapy water flowing over a stone surface — it seems clear early on [...]

When we’re introduced to Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), she’s just been fired (apparently from "The New Yorker" magazine, where she [...]

The strength of Paul Dano’s directing debut, “Wildlife,” based on the eponymous 1990 novel by one of America’s best novelists, [...]

It’s convenient and often useful to classify films: this one’s a buddy film, that one’s a rom-com, another’s a chick [...]

Director Bo Burnham, in his first feature film, vividly captures the unrelenting anxiety of the early teenage years in “Eighth [...]

The film's title is “Sorry to Bother You," and that's also the first line of the script that call center [...]

Director Gerard McMurray's "The First Purge” is a prequel in a franchise constructed on a rather silly social science premise [...]

Piazza Vittorio: an enormous rectangular space not far from Stazione Termini, Rome’s central train station, surrounded by magnificent 19th-century porticoes [...]

In his latest cinematic effort, the master Italian director Paolo Sorrentino revisits two themes that have dominated his work: La [...]

The blockbuster "Black Panther" is both a classic super-hero movie (not meant as a compliment), and an immersion into black [...]