Like the Broadway doyen herself, the documentary, “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” is brilliant, funny caustic, critical and…
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Liam Neeson has taken some lessons from Miley Cyrus, apparently he can’t stop doing films that are derivatives of his…
Director William Friedkin’s 1971 classic police thriller, The French Connection, which won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Picture (and…
After reading David Denby’s “The New Yorker” review of the documentary about J.D. Salinger, which has recently been…
The LEGO Movie is a prime example of why movie theater owners are right to complain about trailers. I felt…
I understand why George Clooney would have been intrigued with filming “The Monuments Men.”…
A little over 30 years ago, Godfrey Reggio and Phillip Glass united to make “Koyaanisqatsi,” a tone poem documentary with…
I likely saw the film version of “Requiem For A Heavyweight” when I was quite young. My dad was a…
George Wu After the lackluster 2012, 2013 was a superb year for movies delivering excellence in every genre from dramas…
For those of us who still believe that commercial art forms like the movies have the potential to be transformative—“The…
A strong, carefully directed period film with an excellent cast, “The Invisible Woman,” lets us into Charles…
Any movie following the sublime A Separation comes with impossible to meet expectations, and Asghar Farhadi’s The Past is indeed…
In May of 1962, the first spring after France’s debilitating war with Algeria, documentarian Chris Marker, together with his cinematographer…
If you’re looking for a tragic hero in the classic mold, look no further than Lance Armstrong. Astronomic rise, as…