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theater review
Yesterday at 10:00 p.m.
Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the People With Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
By Sara Holdren
classical-music review
Yesterday at 1:52 p.m.
Klaus Mäkelä Brings Back the Wild Streak in Stravinsky The young Finnish conductor had even his own orchestra stomping with enthusiasm.
movie review
Mar. 16, 2024
A Final Farewell to Ryuichi Sakamoto A new concert film, Opus , represents the culmination of a lifelong journey from effusive maximalism to gentle simplicity.
theater review
Mar. 14, 2024
Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The Effect A musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
By Sara Holdren
movie review
Mar. 14, 2024
The Eras Tour Film Is Sequined Asset ManagementTaylor Swift’s big-screen adaptation is almost too much movie.
The Fall Guy Is a Funny, Romantic, Stunt-Filled DelightRyan Gosling and Emily Blunt have terrific chemistry in this action-packed movie adaptation of the hit 1980s TV series.
theater review
Mar. 11, 2024
Corruption’ s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
By Sara Holdren
kingdom of dreams
Mar. 11, 2024
The 2024 Oscars Closed the Gates This year’s Academy Awards turned on the charm and turned away from anything uncomfortable, even as protests raged outside.
movie review
Mar. 10, 2024
Oppenheimer Is a Tragedy of Operatic GrandeurChristopher Nolan’s movie about the invention of the atomic bomb is almost too big to wrap your head around.
theater review
Mar. 10, 2024
The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead Outlaw From the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
By Sara Holdren
movie review
Mar. 10, 2024
Is Poor Things the Best We Can Do for Female Sexuality Onscreen? Emma Stone fully commits to a banal rendition of faux -feminist sexual freedom.
movie review
Mar. 10, 2024
Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz Drama Borders on the Unwatchable The shock of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning Auschwitz drama is not in the graphic terrors it depicts, but in what it doesn’t show.
movie review
Mar. 10, 2024
Miyazaki Didn’t Lose a Step Back from temporary retirement, Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film, The Boy and the Heron, is a reminder of what makes him an animation legend.
movie review
Mar. 10, 2024
We’re Going to Be Talking About American Fiction All Awards Season Long Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, American Fiction , is a sharp comedy about racial commodification anchored by a terrific Jeffrey Wright.
movie review
Mar. 10, 2024
We Don’t Know Anything The Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom thriller and a marital drama, but it’s also about how we’ve lost the ability to grasp reality.
movie review
Mar. 8, 2024
Wonka … Is Pretty Good?Look, I’m as surprised as you are.
movie review
Mar. 8, 2024
Netflix’s Damsel Is Sweaty, Snarly, Slithery Fun Millie Bobby Brown might have the lead role in the new fantasy thriller, but the dragon steals the show.
theater review
Mar. 7, 2024
Doubt Returns in a Traditionalist ProductionJohn Patrick Shanley’s dialogue still packs heat, but the fire’s been turned down this time.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 7, 2024
Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through Movement Sufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
By Sara Holdren
movie review
Mar. 5, 2024
movie review
Mar. 4, 2024
Adam Sandler Is All Wrong for Spaceman Sandler plays a Czech astronaut. Paul Dano plays a giant spider from outer space that comes out of his nose. This movie should have been a lot better.
theater review
Mar. 1, 2024
Brooklyn Laundry ’s Drama Has Been Worn to DeathJohn Patrick Shanley’s play needs a little starch.
paris fashion week
Mar. 1, 2024
Finally, a New Voice for Women As debuts go, Chemena Kamali at Chloé could not have done better.
movie review
Feb. 29, 2024
theater review
Feb. 28, 2024
In The Ally, Impossible Conversations We’re All Having Itamar Moses’s drama about a lefty Israeli American caught up in the complexity of pro-Palestine academia is confident and eloquent in its humility.
By Sara Holdren
opera review
Feb. 27, 2024
At the Met, Great Voices and Overwrought Choices in La Forza del Destino Soprano Lise Davidsen knows what’s needed here; director Mariusz Treliński does not.
movie review
Feb. 27, 2024
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Doesn’t Give a Damn That the DC Universe Is EndingWinningly goofy but blemished by behind-the-scenes tinkering, The Lost Kingdom is disappointing in the usual sequel way.
theater review
Feb. 26, 2024
Fiasco’s Smooth-Sailing Pericles An affable, legible take that intermittently sings.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 26, 2024
Cynthia Nixon Does Anything But Vanish in The Seven Year Disappear She and Taylor Trensch lead an ambitious, if rangy, survey of mother-son dynamics.
theater review
Feb. 25, 2024
Through a Glass, Familiarly: The Hunt In this adaptation of a Danish thriller, almost all the characters conform to movie-trope behavior and movie-trope actions.
By Sara Holdren
movie review
Feb. 23, 2024
Drive-Away Dolls Is Just Fizzy EnoughMargaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan star in a lesbian road trip comedy that will mostly remind you of better movies.
movie review
Feb. 23, 2024
Let the Hypnotic, Caustic Beauty of About Dry Grasses Consume You Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes award winner is one of the best films of this or any other year.
theater review
Feb. 22, 2024
The Jazz Age Re-reborn: At Encores!, Jelly’s Last Jam From tap to vocals, an astonishing achievement for such a short run.
street view
Feb. 21, 2024
The Showman Becomes the Realist Bjarke Ingels and the limitations of building in New York.
theater review
Feb. 20, 2024
Sunset Baby’ s Troubled Children of the RevolutionDominique Morisseau’s play looks at the time after revolutionary fire is reduced to a simmer.
By Sara Holdren
movie review
Feb. 16, 2024
Unfortunately, Madame Web Is Bad in a Boring Way Dakota Johnson seems to give up halfway through this latest superhero movie, which drags through the middle and is inept by the end.
theater review
Feb. 14, 2024
Alone in the Dark: I Love You So Much I Could Die and On Set With Theda Bara Two solo shows, looking to make the most of limited resources—and one, at least, soars.
By Sara Holdren
movie review
Feb. 14, 2024
theater review
Feb. 13, 2024
Two Queens (and Some Dancing): The Apiary Virtuosic performances in a play that can’t quite get airborne.
By Sara Holdren
movie review
Feb. 13, 2024
The Iron Claw Should Be Even SadderZac Efron, Harris Dickinson, and Jeremy Allen White star in the story of a tragic wrestling family that holds its subjects at arm’s length.
theater review
Feb. 12, 2024
Reviews: Onstage, Trauma Times 3 Reviews of Munich Medea, Self Portraits (DELUXE), and you don’t have to do anything.
new york fashion week
Feb. 12, 2024
At Khaite, Lots of Drama and Little Design Meanwhile, other labels like Fforme, Altuzarra, and Eckhaus Latta showed clothes that focus on fit.
Usher Rolls Out the Complete R&B Experience The Atlanta legend’s halftime show was a message to never doubt him again.
theater review
Feb. 11, 2024
Too Too Solid: Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet The British comedian, so deft on a standup stage, has a go at Shakespeare—and tightens up.
By Sara Holdren
new york fashion week
Feb. 10, 2024
Tommy Hilfiger’s New New Take on American Prep On the first full day of New York Fashion Week, designers put muscle into their collections.
movie review
Feb. 9, 2024
The Taste of Things Is Ravishing, Delectable, and Maybe Even a Little RadicalStarring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, Tran Anh Hung’s film immediately joins the pantheon of great food movies.
movie review
Feb. 9, 2024
Lisa Frankenstein Is Strictly a Mall-Goth AffairKathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse star in a disappointingly flimsy horror comedy about a teen loner and her undead companion.
theater review
Feb. 8, 2024
theater review
Feb. 8, 2024
The Trouble With Trolls, in Russian Troll Farm Sarah Gancher’s play takes us to the bunker where disinformation begins its journey.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 7, 2024
We’re in This Together: Bark of Millions and The Following Evening A maximalist performance and a quiet, inward-looking play—both, somehow, about creative legacy and earthly mystery.
By Sara Holdren
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