Chloé Zhao is a filmmaker with a particularly special cinematic language. She can capture stark experiences with an almost ethereal glow. In 2020, the Bejing-born director made history by becoming the first woman…
Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning speak about making Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” as a personal experience. It is the job of actors to create characters, give them life, and shape…
The first two films in legendary filmmaker James Cameron’s “Avatar” saga broke box office records and introduced technological breakthroughs in cinema. While audiences had to wait 13 years between those movies, Cameron now…
Bradley Cooper takes blending comedy and tragedy quite seriously in “Is This Thing On?” It is a welcome downscaling for the actor-director, whose previous work profiled relationships within the grand world of…
Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his toughest case yet in “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.” In the third installment of Rian Johnson’s comedic murdery mystery franchise, an earnest…
Beyond ove, loss and sorrow are the most universal of human experiences. Not even historical giants are immune to them. Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” lures us in promising to gaze into a side…
When “Downton Abbey” first premiered 15 years ago, probably no one at the time could have predicted that it would go on to become the culture juggernaut it is today. After six seasons…
When legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” first opened on Broadway in 1981, the results were quite disastrous. Critics thrashed the production and it closed after only two…