Movies

After a brief separation dedicated to soul-searching, Eliza Doolittle returns to Professor Henry Higgins’ house. He greets her with a singular question that encapsulates the nature of their relationship—“Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?” The 1964...

I keep waiting to become more cynical about movies as a film critic. Every week I read one think piece after the next about how cinema is dying and no good movies are made anymore. But 2025...

The bodies of innocent citizens don’t stay buried, or submerged, for long in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Corruption in 1970s Brazil saturates the bodies and souls of politicians, police officers, the media, and industrialists. In...

Behind a new documentary, The Man Who Saves the World?, is a man who just might save the world. Or, more specifically, be the spark that saves the Amazon and thereby prevents the destruction of a region...

James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg is a grand, complex, thought-provoking, intelligent piece of work, a combination war movie/courtroom drama/political beacon, on a subject that most of its audience might think is over and done with.  All the action takes place...

TORN FROM A REVIEWER’S NOTE PAD: Walking out of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, we couldn’t get a certain crazy retro-pop ditty out of our heads. In Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough’s 1966 song “I’m Hip,” unforgettably covered...

Some weeks there aren’t any new theatrical releases audiences are hyped for, so most people stay home and check out something on Netflix or another streaming service. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t films worth watching or...