Review
The brilliant Drive My Car is about many things, but at its core the film is an exploration of loss.
Netflix may have yet to create an animated hit on the scale of Frozen, but this entry in the sweepstakes suggests that the streaming platform is moving closer towards that goal.
Licorice Pizza, director Paul Thomas Anderson’s ninth feature film, proves that he is a purveyor of cinematic joy.
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is fairly entertaining, fairly decent, but that’s about it.
Rather disappointingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, the expressions of lesbian eroticism in Benedetta are very obviously depicted for the male gaze.
Hot Maroc is more of a three-ring circus than a drama, with a high-wire act at one end, tigers and elephants at the other, and scurrying clowns in the middle.
The arrival of the internet adds a sour-grapes ending to an otherwise fairly compelling narrative.
Some splendid, new (and newish) books that are sure to inspire young children.
Who else, but The Beatles, could command this much attention, of this many people, for that long of a time, and still be interesting, even joyous?
Solo performance is still a way ahead for jazz pianists, judging from four CDs released in 2021.
Visual Arts Commentary: The Great Spirit Gets Company