About 45 minutes into A Complete Unknown, Joan Baez tells Bob Dylan he’s “kind of an asshole.” As the scene plays, I suspect most viewers will agree because director James Mangold avoids the ...
Where Oppenheimer displays total control of his craft of visual storytelling, the film fails the shortcomings of its script -- specifically, the choice to tell this story as a musical. The decision is ...
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, news coverage by the most prominent U.S. outlets of Israel's assault on Gaza and its Palestinian inhabitants has provided more propaganda than ...
A new year beckons new resolutions. At the risk of sounding like a stubborn old relic who resists change, I resolve to have only the following resolution: to stay resolute against all modern-day ...
Eggers’ recreation of 19th-century Europe allows Nosferatu to serve as a reclamation of history, where women are at the forefront, while also enabling the director to take contemporary conversations ...
An accomplished historian and author of "The Impeachers," Wineapple takes her time setting up the story. In a leisurely manner—perhaps too leisurely—her narrative encompasses Prohibition, the Ku Klux ...