This is a fresh take on a teen sex comedy: someone who worships logic sets out to explore the complexity of sexuality.
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Arts Remembrance: Film Critic Michael Wilmington — A Memory
Remembering film critic Michael Wilmington, a unique guy, and friend, whom I knew for 53 years.
Film Review: “The Matrix Resurrections” – A Glitch in the Reboot
Director Lana Wachowski seems less interested in telling a coherent story with fleshed out characters than she is in aggressively commenting on how we’re trapped in a cycle of reboots and remakes with no end in sight.
Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently Pessimistic
The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.
Film Review: “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” — Satiric Fury, with a Dry Midwestern Chuckle
The documentary supplies plenty of deserved admiration for its haggard but gentle subject, but it doesn’t tell us enough about the enduring value of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing.
Film Review: Tracking the Snow Leopard — “The Velvet Queen”
The Velvet Queen, elegantly directed by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier, is a vivid chronicle of an arduous journey, old-fashioned but visually high-tech.
Film Review: “Nightmare Alley” — The Greatest Con on Earth
With Nightmare Alley, Guillermo del Toro once again proves to be an unparalleled cinematic visionary whose commitment to craftsmanship continues to amaze.
Arts Feature: Best Music Documentaries of 2021 — and Some Disappointments
This list consists of recent music documentaries that I streamed over the past year — a couple of duds as well as the standouts.
Best of 2021: Music Documentaries on TV
Here is my list of the 5 best music documentaries from the past year that you could/can watch on the boob tube.
Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2021
Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year.