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She Screams, They Scream, We All Scream For Lea Michelle In ‘Funny Girl’
Unfairly maligned Beanie Feldstein is gone. Noisy enough to be heard in the Times Square subway, indifferent in the acting department, but serving the score by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill admirably,...
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‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Is Nothing Short Of A Marvel
When Martin McDonagh, the London playwright who specializes in bizarre, twisted and darkly humorous ruminations on offbeat behavior in the emotional and political state of affairs in Ireland, alarmed...
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‘My Policeman’: A Mature, Sophisticated, Sexy Love Triangle That Will Break...
Meticulously directed, gorgeously photographed, and sensitively acted by a superb cast, Michael Grandage’s My Policeman is a heartbreaking, largely underrated British film about three people in an...
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‘The Good Nurse’: This Serial Killer Thriller Is A Nerve Shattering Work of Art
At the movies, serial killers are a dime a dozen. They all provide popular and disturbing movie fodder, but I don’t remember one as baffling and complex—or played so charmingly—as the one Eddie...
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‘The Fabelmans’: Spielberg’s Self-Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Is...
In the 58 films of Steven Spielberg, there has almost always been something youthful and adventurous that appeals to kids of all ages, some element of movie magic that defines his reputation as the...
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‘The Menu’: Vicious, Delicious, And Horrifying
Bizarre, original and loaded with revelatory surprises with every turn of the page, The Menu uses the culture of haute cuisine as a metaphor for the spit-roasted values of high society, with results...
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Review: The Excruciating “& Juliet” Fails on Every Level
& Juliet | 150 min with an intermission | STEPHEN SONDHEIM THEATRE 124 W 43RD ST, NYC Although the moronic new Broadway show & Juliet at the theater newly named for Stephen Sondheim (who must...
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‘Bones and All’: A Blood-Filled Two-Hour Trash Fest of Dreamy-Eyed Cannibals
Cannibals in love? I don’t think so. But as movies get loopier, the people who somehow, in the middle of inflation, find the millions to make them, just do not seem to care if anybody sees them or...
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‘The Son’: A Stellar Hugh Jackman Makes This Engrossing But Downbeat Movie...
The third and final entry in French writer-director Florian Zeller’s acclaimed trilogy of plays about conflicted family values in perpetual crisis, The Son is a bold, harrowing and unflinchingly...
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Review: A Nuanced Jennifer Lawrence Performance Can’t Save ‘Causeway’
Year-end releases reveal a plethora of fine actors vainly trying to apply their extraordinary skills to raise the quality level of mediocre films. Jennifer Lawrence in Causeway is a perfect example....
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‘Ohio State Murders’: 75 Minutes of Waiting for Something To Happen
Ohio State Murders | 1hr 15mins. No intermission. | James Earl Jones Theater | 38 West 48th Street | 212-239-6200 Solo shows have never been a favorite theatrical genre for me unless it’s Julie...
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‘Empire of Light’ Review: Movies Are Magic, But Not This One
[contact-form] The trend this holiday season (great actors in mediocre, maudlin movies) continues apace with phenomenal award-winning Olivia Colman in Empire of Light, working hard to prove she can...
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Review: ‘Some Like It Hot’ Is The Joyous Broadway Musical People Have Been...
Some Like It Hot | 2hrs 30mins. One intermission. | Shubert Theatre | 225 W 44th Street | 212-239-6200 Few things in show business are as genuinely, indestructibly, and reliably close to perfect as...
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‘The Whale’ Review: Brendan Fraser’s Heartbreaking Performance Isn’t Matched...
Some things cannot be denied, even at gunpoint. One of them is the power, awe and surprise inherent in Brendan Fraser’s genuine, realistic and heartbreaking performance in The Whale. The film isn’t...
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‘The Old Way’ Review: Nicolas Cage Goes West
Horror, sci-fi, romance, domestic drama, comedy—Nicolas Cage has tried his hand at everything. The only thing he has never done is a Western. Urban, unpredictable, very modern and sometimes...
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‘A Man Called Otto’ Review: A Plodding, Predictable Waste of Tom Hanks
A Man Called Otto is a plodding and predictable take on the 2015 Swedish film A Man Called Ove, dusted off to please viewers desperate for a bit of feel-good optimism in a current cinematic atmosphere...
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‘Dog Gone’ Review: A Tearjerker With Mature Intentions
Based on a true story about a beloved adopted pooch that goes missing and the distraught family that turns life upside down trying to find him, Dog Gone is carefully designed to warm the hardest of...
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‘Plane’ Review: A First-Rate Action Thriller
There’s always room for another first-rate action thriller, and Plane breathlessly packs its punches in spades. Starring underrated, two-fisted hunk Gerard Butler and tightly directed by Jean-Francois...
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‘Blood’ Review: Dog Bites Boy, Boy Drinks Blood In This Creep-Show Bomb
With the demise of real movies on big screens that appeal to real audiences, we’re in the middle of an alarming trend to make movies on the cheap, featuring good actors desperate to keep their careers...
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‘The Man In the Basement’ Review: A Provocative, Intelligent And Suspenseful...
In the profound and deeply troubling French film The Man in the Basement, a man named Simon Sandberg (played by the amiable and ingratiating Jeremie Renier, a real discovery) sells a small cellar...
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