The new Tom Hanks play is a drag
This World of Tomorrow is a waste of time travel
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
Monday
RIP Rob Reiner
Remember him for his great works, not his horrific end
Saturday
Liberation is a witty, genuine snapshot of second-wave feminism
In the second act of Liberation the main cast quietly, and without fuss, starts to undress. By the time the lights go up, all six women are naked. In this masterful play by Bess Wohl, the moment does not feel shocking or gratuitous but somehow comforting. In 1970s Ohio, a group of women meet weekly to fight for equality through “consciousness-raising.” Mostly that consists of free-ranging conversation, of which the women have a lot and which is always smart, funny, vulnerable and eye-opening. But after reading an article about body positivity in Ms. magazine, they meet in the nude. As one group member, Dora, ostensibly the most beautiful, breaks down
Stoppard, Sappho and me
Many years ago, and well retired, I was working in my study at home when the phone rang and a voice said, “This is Tom Stoppard. David West put me onto you.” David was the professor of Latin at Newcastle University and it emerged that Tom used him when he had queries about Latin, but now had a question about the ancient Greeks. When he couldn’t answer it, David suggested that Tom should call me. I felt a vast chasm of ignorance opening in front of me and have no memory of what the question was – but my reply must have satisfied him because he continued to throw the
Friday
The Diddy documentary is required viewing
Give him no second chances
Wednesday
The Golden Globes loves Paul Thomas Anderson
Hollywood might be in trouble, but the director isn’t
Monday
The fight for the future of Warner Bros.
The sale would create a monopoly the likes of which has never been seen before in the film industry
Friday
Will the new Avatar be the last?
We should hope so
Tuesday
Is there such a thing as right-wing art?
A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being
Reconciling dreams with reality
Truth to tell, surrealism lent itself to individuals who were inherently off-the-beam
The contingent talent of Emily Sargent
Creativity in proximity to genius without its obligations
Monet’s Venetian moment
Monet also captured another element of the open air: smog
Portrait of a frontier life
Train Dreams, often hailed as a ‘miniature masterpiece,’ is not a story of defeat
Friday
The new Stranger Things is loopy and sweet
The fifth season is full of self-referential excess, but it’s also an example of great homage
Wednesday
When will the Beatles bandwagon end?
Anthology 4 makes the extraordinary band seem ordinary
Tuesday
They should never make another James Bond film
The spy learned his final lesson in No Time to Die
Saturday
What if the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights is good?
Jacob Elordi might well be about to capture Heathcliff’s mixture of brutality and magnetism
Friday
Nuremberg and the overpowering greatness of Russell Crowe
He skillfully suggests what a fascinatingly complex character Herman Göring was
Wednesday
Give Stellan Skarsgård an Oscar for Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier’s film shows us what compassion is
Tuesday
South America is flush with Nazi-looted art
Sleuths rediscovered a stolen painting, galvanizing efforts to uncover even more
