Eighty-seven-year-old filmmaker Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” is about how changing demographics in an struggling English town called Durham manifest in a crumbling old pub,…
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I often wish that I could still hear George Carlin riffing on the news. But I can’t, and it’s good that I…
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One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked “the one with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.” Someone…
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This series presents a different essay by a different writer on the first Friday of the month. Each one starts from…
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Roger, thank you for the rich treasure trove of opinions and images you left for us. Thank you for your…
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Roger Ebert’s Top 10 lists each year always contained a few surprising picks that said a lot about what he…
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Two years after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival, “The People’s Joker” finally opens this Friday. If that sounds…
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Lee Chang-dong began his career in the arts as a novelist and “novelistic” in all the richness and implication of…
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Set in 1980s Tuscany, the ethereal romantic drama “La chimera” from writer-director Alice Rohrwacher follows the plights of Arthur (Josh…
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The launching pad for Bertrand Bonello’s new picture “The Beast” (“La Bete”) is a 1903 short story by Henry James…
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