James Bowman
Anthony Tommasini, music critic of the New York Times, greeted the New Year by ranking, in order, the top 10…
That the second iteration of True Grit has recently proved to be such a hit, even winning an Academy Award…
It’s still only March, but I don’t hope to see a better movie this year than Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods…
What I take to be the bottom line of Cedar Rapids, directed by Miguel Arteta (Chuck and Buck, The Good…
How astonishing to me is the amount of attention given — worldwide and not just in America — to the…
ANOTHER MONTH, ANOTHER media hurricane of “controversy” in “the arts.” Forgive my use of quotation marks in the previous sentence,…
Perhaps the most significant moment of Mike Leigh’s Another Year comes near the beginning when we see the great Imelda…
One line which people are likely to remember from the otherwise pretty forgettable No Strings Attached, directed by Ivan Reitman…
Although I very much enjoyed Tom Hooper’s sepia-tinted return to the 1930s, The King’s Speech, I was also conscious throughout…
One scene from the 1969 version of True Grit, directed by the journeyman Henry Hathaway, that doesn’t appear in the…
