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…
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…
The films of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho are driven by a rich sense of place and time. His stories occupy a space so fully that they truly feel recovered from some distant…
Making a true friend is special. Sustaining that friendship can sometimes be the hard part. Disney’s “Zootopia 2” reminds us that animated family films can still tackle such subject matter with breezy…
To truly ponder the possibility of life after death should mean considering a lot of rather inconvenient details. “Eternity” is a romantic comedy that poses a challenge that makes complete sense when…
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…
The life story of a seemingly ordinary man is at the center of “Train Dreams,” the beautiful and haunting second feature from Clint Bentley. The story of protagonist Robert Grainer (Joel Edgerton),…
Brendan Fraser continues to take his craft to the next level in Hikari’s affecting comedy-drama “Rental Family.” The Oscar winner plays Phillip Vandarploeug, a middling American actor living in Japan. Phillip has…