Hollywood and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences have finally woken up and acknowledged that woke programming doesn’t resonate…

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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…