Search Results: the secret of the pearl room
Atung and Moy have a lot to say about American history and culture — acutely informed by the playwright’s 21st century sensibility and identity politics.
Read More
Five more feature films of great interest and their links, lovingly chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.
Read More
In tracing the tortuous path that established historians took in trying to get to the bottom of the war, Perry Anderson doesn’t acknowledge leftwing observers who knew perfectly well what was going on at the time.
Read MoreWith the 1% rapidly vacuuming up the resources of the upper and middle classes, A.R. Gurney’s comic vision of the tipsy idle rich, shorn of cares and criminality, floats completely free of reality.
Read MoreA movie critic can’t help but tie the Boston Marathon tragedies to the cinema, and so John Frankenheimer’s “Black Sunday” (1977) obviously flashes to mind.
Read More
Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.
Read More
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Read MoreAce film blogger Farran Smith Nehme’s first novel grows directly out of her adoration of classic American cinema.
Read More
Three guitarists — Bill Banfield, Ray Obiedo, and Lee Ritenour — release superb albums.
Read More
Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025