One of the longest-running Nazi restitution cases, fiercely debated within the courts for two decades, seemed to have met its end last year when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth...
Read more‘The Paragon’Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.The last time a dryly zany comedy from New Zealand involving fantastical shenanigans made me laugh this much, it was the original “What We Do in...
Read moreIt’s not every day that a critic gets to review a premiere by Ravel.He died almost a century ago, after all. And while some previously unknown works have come to light over...
Read more‘Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice’Stream it on YouTube.When Gavin Creel died of a rare form of cancer last fall, at the age of 48, he left behind an artistic...
Read morePorky Pig just turned 90. His first cartoon was released on March 2, 1935; his tormentor and eventual foil Daffy Duck came along a couple of years later. These Warner Bros. comedic...
Read more‘Black Bag’Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star as Kathryn and George, a married couple of glamorous spies who turn their espionage skills against each other.From our review:“Black Bag” is the third movie...
Read moreThe makers of “Meanwhile” (in theaters) describe it as a “docu-poem,” which is a bold choice: Not many people encounter feature-length nonfiction poetry onscreen. But in about 90 minutes, the director Catherine...
Read moreAnne Kaufman Schneider, who shepherded the plays of her father, George S. Kaufman, a titan of 20th-century American theatrical wit, into the 21st century with an acerbic sagacity all her own, died...
Read moreIt was supposed to be a moment of celebration: Vice President JD Vance was attending a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Thursday evening...
Read moreThe mayor of Miami Beach is seeking to oust a nonprofit art house cinema from a city-owned property for showing “No Other Land,” the Oscar-winning documentary that chronicles the Israeli demolition of...
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