The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty

Jun 21, 2019 — The French iconoclast explains how his background in industrial filmmaking helped him bring life to abstract ideas about the human condition.

Jun 13, 2019 — She turned roles as women past their prime into her greatest triumphs.

May 28, 2019 — Songbook Some songs are so beautiful that it takes six or seven or fifty listens before you really hear the words. High on the list of the greatest American songwriters, Jerome Kern crafted many such melodies: perfect enough to momentarily...

May 23, 2019 — Performances Those who have recently discovered Kim Minhee will know her as the magnetic actress in Park Chan-wook’s lascivious thriller The Handmaiden, in which she made the clinical act of tooth-filing a new form of eroticism, and in Hong Sangsoo’s...

May 20, 2019 — Triple crosses follow double crosses in this slick crime thriller.

May 18, 2019 — Diop’s debut fiction feature is a love story, a detective story, and a ghost story.

May 17, 2019 — Ly’s fiery fiction feature debut alludes not only to Hugo but also to Fuqua, Kassovitz, and Spike Lee.

May 16, 2019 — Initial response to Silverstein’s first fiction feature is ranging from warm to very warm indeed.

May 16, 2019 — All week long, writers have been reminding us that there was more to Doris Day than sweet sunshine.

May 8, 2019 — Songbook “The very first time I saw a picture of [Charles Starkweather], I knew I was looking at the future. His eyes were a double zero. There was just nothing there. He was like an outrider of what America might...