Bruce Bawer
Critic, schmitic. How can you pretend to be engaged in objective aesthetic appraisal when you’re talking about movies that you…
I hadn’t heard of the 2018 film Operation Finale until the other night, when I was scrolling through the offerings…
After watching Patryk Vega’s 2021 documentary Eyes of the Devil the other day, I felt guilty for having gotten such…
I’ve always been of two minds about Quentin Tarantino. His movies parody and pay tribute to genres, both literary and…
The original Hollywood adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s bestselling 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts neues)…
Recently I dropped my cell phone somewhere between our home and the supermarket across the street. When I opened our…
On an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the best sitcom of the 1970s, Ted Baxter (Ted Knight), the…
Some famous writers are forgotten the moment they kick off. Joan Didion, who passed away at age 87 two days…
Five hours, baby. Of course, by Netflix standards, it’s the flicker of an eyelid, the flap of a hummingbird’s wing,…
