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Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023
Review: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's "Nyad"
In "Nyad," there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) to accomplish a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida across 103 miles of open, shark-infested waters. Then there is the mettle of Nyad's support team to tolerate the...
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023
Review: Director Errol Morris' "The Pigeon Tunnel"
Errol Morris's conversation with the late David Cornwell in " The Pigeon Tunnel " is fascinating even without the filmmaking flourishes. Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was the spy-turned-novelist whose tales of espionage and betrayal defined an era, gave literary heft to a...
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023
Review: Martin Scorsese's Epic "Killers of the Flower Moon"
There tends to be lots of fast talking and fast moving in Martin Scorsese films, often from shifty types trying to get away with something. Or sometimes, simply because the master filmmaker has so much to pack in. But in "Killers of the Flower Moon," everything seems to slow down, and especially...
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023
Martin Scorsese Shares "Internal Spectacle" In "Killers of the Flower Moon"
A moment from years ago keeps replaying in Martin Scorsese 's mind. When Akira Kurosawa was given an honorary Academy Award in 1990, the then 80-year-old Japanese filmmaker of "Seven Samurai" and "Ikiru," in his brief, humble speech, said he hadn't yet grasped the full essence of cinema. It struck...
Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023
Review: Director Sam Wrench's "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour"
It opens with a clock counting down until show time — the dropped stomach, rollercoaster slowly encroaching its apex sensation — and then, a gentle fake out. Taylor Swift is heard before she is seen. "It's been a long time..." her voice carries. Then the drop hits: an abridged performance of "Miss...
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023
Review: Director Justine Triet's "Anatomy of a Fall"
Of all the ways that a relationship can end, a fundamental disagreement about a work of art is in some ways extremely silly. And yet, a film or a book exposing an irreparable rift in a love that perhaps wasn't as compatible, as symbiotic or as caring as one might have thought is also, somehow, as...
Friday, Oct. 6, 2023
Review: Director Maggie Betts' "The Burial"
Jamie Foxx deploys his movie star charm judiciously and skillfully as a litigator with swagger to spare in " The Burial," a very entertaining courtroom drama. Foxx is one of those actors, blessed with an allure and glamour that runs so deep that it's almost tempting to dismiss a performance like...
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023
Review: Writer-Director Chloe Domont's "Fair Play"
The disquieting root of Chloe Domont's slinky, slick feature debut "Fair Play" lies in the face of Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) as he learns that his fiance Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) has been given the promotion at their Wall Street hedge fund he thought was his. "Congratulations," he says with a grin that...
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023
Review: "Joan Baez: I Am a Noise"
Bob Dylan called it her "heart-stopping soprano," and it's true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song "We Shall Overcome," you could believe we would, indeed, overcome. The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course. But what...
Thursday, Sep. 28, 2023
Review: Director Gareth Edwards' "The Creator"
The artificial intelligence in Gareth Edwards' " The Creator," a visually magnificent if by-the-books epic, is not the AI making headlines at the moment. This is AI in the classic sci-fi mold — the Roy Battys of "Blade Runner," the Avas of "Ex Machina," the ones whose sentience we question and...