A friendly warning: After I die, no matter how many centuries have passed, I will return to earth in the…
Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances By David Thomson (Knopf, 288 pages, $30) Eighty-two years old this month, David…
The other day, after watching the 2015 Swedish movie A Man Called Ove for the first time — an experience…
In an episode of the late, great sitcom The King of Queens, Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his wife, Carrie…
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Edited by Noah Isenberg; translated by Shelley Frisch (Princeton…
The history of Hollywood is studded with failed attempts to adapt European films. Take Édouard Molinaro’s charming 1978 French-Italian comedy…
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…
