Tough Room
/What does a movie-maker do? Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola's new book, Live Cinema and Its Techniques, offers a strange blend of answer and feint by way of responding.
Read MoreWaiting for the Dough
/Near the end of his life, Orson Welles tape-recorded his lunches with a faithful industry friend. By turns hilarious and self-pitying, they give a brilliant glimpse of the aging titan.
Read MoreObstinate About Surviving
/Batman and Inception director Christopher Nolan's latest film is a sprawling WWII epic about the desperate heroism of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Read MoreBook Review: Warner Bros
/The latest entry in Yale's "Jewish Lives" series is the story of Warner Brothers Studo, by the great film historian David Thomson
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Windsors: Family Drama
/A lavish new production dramatizes the tensions between royalty and personhood in the House of Windsor. Steve Donoghue reviews The Crown.
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Poldark
/The companion book to the 2015 production of "Poldark" turns out to be more than just a pretty face
Read MoreIn Paperback: Manhattan Night
/A terrific ten-year-old noir novel is given a new paperback edition on the occasion of its translation to the Hollywood screen.
Read MoreA History of Violence
/When watching a Quentin Tarantino film, critic Max Ross contends, you can never forget you're watching a Quentin Tarantino flim. But is that a strength or a weakness of his latest, The Hateful Eight?
Read MoreFosse's Dark Vision
/Director Bob Fosse dreamed that his 1983 movie Star 80 would put him in the front ranks of Hollywood, but what resulted was both stranger and - our reviewer urges - more powerful than it first seemed.
Read MoreAprès moi, le déluge
/Charles Marville’s extraordinary photographs of 19th-century Paris are like a cautionary tale, urging us to preserve the best of what is left in our own cities.
Read MoreWAKE UUUUP!
/What does the summer of 1989, when Do the Right Thing hit theaters, have to say to the summer of Ferguson, and police militarization, and race relations today?
Read MoreTitle Menu: 10 Minutes from Prometheus
/Ridley Scott's Prometheus, ill-served by critics when it appeared last year, is the finest sequel to the Alien movies yet made. Our contributing editor chooses ten exemplary minutes to make his case.
Read MoreLeft Wanting
/Elia Kazan's unwavering confidence in his own brilliance was the spur to his successes as a director and the source of his infamy as a Cold War canary. A new collection of his letters makes his outsized personality seem even larger.
Read MoreEcho Chamber Blues
/Marvel Comics is mopping up at the box office, but what of its rival DC? Our resident expert fisks the also-rans and reminds us about an epic story still waiting to be adapted.
Read MoreBigger with More and More
/Spike Jonze is the most mainstream of indie directors -- or the most indie of mainstream directors -- and his newest film Her is a triumph of quirky charm and visionary depth. Matt Sadler reviews.
Read MoreNever Take Off the Mask: The Films of Gore Verbinski
/The man behind the trillion-dollar "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise (and, more recently, the high-profile "Lone Ranger" flop) has been characterized as a hack, a purveyor of standard-issue Hollywood dreck. But, asks Tucker Johnson, is there art buried in the films of Gore Verbinski?
Read MoreArendt in New York City
/When Hannah Arendt published Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1964, her moral authority was called into question. Now Margarethe von Trotta’s new film Hannah Arendt explores both who has the right and who has the responsibility to speak about the Holocaust.
Read MoreAll the Absolutely Fabulous Gatsbys
/Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster is merely the newest Great Gatsby for film or television--four adaptations before it attempted to capture the dazzle and pathos of the classic. Matt Sadler us on a tour of West Egg across the decades.
Read MoreFlowers in the Pit
/“The eye says ‘Here is Anna Karenina,’” wrote Virginia Woolf; “A voluptuous lady in black velvet wearing pearls comes before us. But the brain says ‘that is no more Anna Karenina than it is Queen Victoria.’" Joe Wright's cinematic adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel avoids the pitfalls of such literalism.
Read MoreClassics Reprinted: 5001 Nights at the Movies
/A thick masterwork of that maddening maven of the movie screen, Pauline Kael, gets a rock-solid reprint from Picador
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