Owen Gleiberman

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Brian Wilson’s Genius Was the Surest Sign We’ll Ever Have That Pop Music Is Religious

I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a second-run movie theater finally watching...

‘Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything’ Review: Captures Her Brilliance as an Interviewer…and the Fusion of Politics and Entertainment She Helped Forge

“Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything” is a documentary a lot like its subject. It’s sharp and inquiring in a playful way. It asks friendly questions but knows just when to toss...

‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ Review: Oscar Boyson’s Audacious Drama About Fake Empathy, School Shooters and How the Online World Connects to Both

The title character of “Our Hero, Balthazar” is no one’s idea of a hero. But he’s certainly a creature for our time. Balthazar, played in a hipster fade and with a...

No One in the Movies Stays Dead Anymore

The “John Wick” franchise has just returned to life with “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas as a Ruska Roma dancer who trains as an assassin to avenge the death of her...

‘Something Beautiful with Miley Cyrus’ Review: The Star Co-Directs an Album’s Worth of Her Music Videos, Celebrating Her Sexuality…and Herself

It’s the rare pop star who doesn’t use his or her sexuality in some way. But the current moment, typified by stars like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli XCX, tends...

‘Billy Joel: And So It Goes’ Review: The Tribeca Festival Opens with a Luscious Longform Documentary That Captures Just the Way He Is

When it was announced that this year’s Tribeca Festival would open with the premiere of the HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” I assumed, as a fan of Billy...

Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Is Going to Netflix. Is Jean-Luc Godard Turning Over in His Grave?

When I first heard that “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s ingenious and elating docudrama about the making of “Breathless,” had been sold to Netflix, I initially had the reaction I think a...

‘Honey Don’t!’ Review: Margaret Qualley Is Back, with Even More Panache, in the ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Companion Piece No One Asked For. But It’s Throwaway...

Margaret Qualley swans through “Honey Don’t!” like a movie star who might have been born in the wrong era, but she’s going to make the most of it. Regally tall, in...

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