James Bowman
Movie reviewing isn’t what it used to be, I’m sorry to have to tell you. Criticism has ceased to be…
“Beckett’s despair is as bracing as ever.” So, at least, says the Sunday Times critic proudly quoted on the marquee…
On the day I went to see Oren Moverman’s The Messenger, the editorialists for the London Daily Telegraph were so…
Not, I hope, to seem too much devoted to my one of my pop-cultural hobbyhorses, but the attraction of apocalypse…
You only have to hear the plot summary of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist to hate it. It begins with scenes…
Just as we have now arrived at the cultural moment where we have to define art as whatever is displayed…
The Coen brothers’ new movie, A Serious Man, would have been better named for the brothers themselves: Two Unserious Men….
Not long ago, a player for the British rugby team, Harlequins, “one of the game’s most venerable clubs,” according to…
On the same day that An Education opened in the U.S., the Daily Mail of London reported on court testimony in the…
