Rebecca Hall gives Resurrection the psychological grounding it needs, as the thriller stretches towards a macabre, fable-like payoff.
Rebecca Hall
Film Review: “Resurrection” at the Independent Film Festival Boston
What lifts Resurrection above the standard victim-becomes-avenger routine is a preposterous — in a wonderfully sick way — claim that gives the movie a welcome touch of giallo unpredictability.
Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #4 — Trauma and Terror
When given a choice, tend to choose films that are fairly harrowing to watch. The next three Sundance Fest films on my slate were often disturbing, but also powerful and inspiring on many levels.
Television Review: “Passing” — The Tragedy of Race and Space
After nearly a century, the fierce psychological nuance of Passing remains as relevant as ever.
Film Review: “Christine” — Dramatizing an On-Air Suicide
Christine is less interested in serving up a moral lesson or providing sociological analysis than generating sympathy.
Theater Review Roundup: Taking in London Stages
Reviews of eight stage productions in London, with two terrific shows noted: American dramatist Bruce Norris’s powerful study of racial relations, Clybourne Park, and Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980 farce Season’s Greetings. Another winner on the West End, the critically acclaimed War Horse, comes to New York next week. By Joann Green Breuer Penelope by Enda Walsh […]
Theater Review Round-up: Our Man in London
It should be pointed out that in London it is possible to see more shows in a limited time than one can do in the United States. Why? Because it has long been the sensible practice to stagger weekday matinees. By Caldwell Titcomb Shakespeare first, of course. The British quite rightly never tire of “Hamlet.” […]