The Marcel Marceau Biopic Has Nothing to Say
Jesse Eisenberg’s Resistance pays unimaginative tribute to sentimentality.
Pedro Costa: The Rembrandt of the Ghetto
His high art exposes Hollywood’s failed pathos.
The Suppressed Woody Allen Movie
A Rainy Day in New York deserves a U.S. release, though it’s a so-so effort.
Zombies in the Age of COVID-19
The zombie can represent anything, or nothing—and that may be the source of its pop-culture durability.
The Lennon and McCartney of Comedy
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David mixed together sweet and sour the way the Beatles did.
Dark Waters Drowns in Sanctimony
Mark Ruffalo weeps and accuses again.
Social Distancing in Movies: Comparing Millennials and Boomers
In the recent Uncut Gems, we see egotism and self-centeredness; in1976’s Mikey and Nicky, connection and compassion.
The Gene Revolution Is Already Here
Human difference, even to some extent human imperfection, would be a terrible thing to lose, and yet all technology is what you make of it.
Abortion Movies: Art, Choice, or Atrocity?
Never Rarely Sometimes Always kowtows to Hollywood’s women’s-rights industry.
Tom Hanks Announces He Has Coronavirus
Hanks and wife Rita Wilson are currently in Australia, where Hanks was to begin production on a movie about the life of Elvis Presley.