Film
Director Frank Borzage’s wonderful 1937 History Is Made at Night, newly restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection, defies pigeonholing.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Undine is a film best savored (and best absorbed) with a second viewing. Viewers must be open to its charms, perhaps allowing memories of the primal to seep into their consciousness.
This fine documentary of a highly respected elder bassist presents a clear, focused picture of a man who is also a jazz musician.
More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm.
Survival is the primary motivation, and the film’s unrelenting series of unexpected attacks generate considerable tension.
Cruella is by far the best of the Disney reboots.
Plan B, Hulu’s latest raunchy teen romp, proves why we need diverse voices in Hollywood.
Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Blue Lives Madder, “Dirty Harry” Turns 50
The path Dirty Harry (and too many of his defenders, then and now) chose to pursue — the urban policing version of “killing the village in order to save it” — was outdated and discredited even in 1971.
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