The first theatrical feature film written and directed by David Chase, the creator of “The Sopranos,” is an autobiographical tale about the formation of an artistic sensibility. John Magaro plays Doug Damiano, a northern New Jersey teenager whose father Pat…
An interview with author Sady Doyle.
Superficial in some ways, deeply insightful in others, this is still a must-see for cinephiles.
Underrated in the manner of so many Steven Spielberg historical dramas, “The Post” is a journalism thriller that doubles as a stealth portrait of the media’s responsibility in the age of Trump.
From a childhood of pain, a lifetime of art.
When I was a college student in Dallas in the 1980s, my favorite theater was the Big Town, which showed second-run movies for a dollar. It was located in a small, run-down mall that probably hadn’t been thriving for 10 years. By the…
An improvement on the original.
A great premise is undercut by a script that keeps pushing to make its characters less complicated than they could be.
Sincere but often frustrating family drama set among the ultra-rich.
Appreciating the art of one of the greatest documentary filmmakers.
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