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There has never been a president in the entire history of the United States who has had so many books published as warnings against the dangers he brings to the office. They are too numerous to keep...

Last night she visited me in a dream. I was flying through the air, very fast, when suddenly I found myself in her arms. I caught a good look at her smiling face. Then I woke...

Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird” can be hard to wrap your arms around. That’s by design. It’s right there in the tongue-in-cheek words that open every episode: “All of This is True. Most of It Happened.” It...

No life-story could turn into a paint-by-numbers biopic in the hands of director Julie Taymor, a creative force for both the stage and screen. Indeed, the filmmaker’s uniquely vivid, sometimes unruly signature informs much of her...

For 40 autumns before the Year That Cinema Screeched to a Halt, each September offered a singular geographic and aesthetic itinerary: as the air began to bear a bracing chill, I would join other critics in...

Two kids from the muddy outskirts of London, hired through a burner phone, travel to a dilapidated apartment building under the pretense of killing a pedophile. But there’s something they don’t know until it’s too late:...

We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the September 2020 edition of the online magazine, Bright Wall/Dark Room. This month’s issue is dedicated to the legendary Billy Wilder, and in addition to Elizabeth Cantwell’s piece on “Ace in...

The Jessica Chastain vehicle “Ava” is not the movie you expect it to be, and that’s the source of its weaknesses as well as its strengths.  In the abstract, “Ava” looks like it wants to be another...

Though it precedes “Small Axe: Lovers Rock” in Steve McQueen’s series, “Mangrove” follows it in this year’s New York Film Festival Main Slate premieres. This is quite a different affair; the racist actions and rules that...

No matter how far in the future, we already know the first two lines of James Comey’s obituary. One will be about his decision as Director of the FBI to announce, just days before the 2016...