The media has done a good job of talking about what’s not in “Michael.” I refer, of course, to the accusations of child sexual abuse that dogged Michael Jackson from 1993...
When a once-successful director finds himself stranded in a wilderness of misguided projects and indifferent audience response, he may try to reignite inspiration by going back to the ingredients of an...
I’ll read a news story about more or less anything, but I glaze over at the prospect of consuming any article about cryptocurrency. That’s because even when I do read one,...
“Thrash,” like just about every shark thriller, has a grade-Z son-of-“Jaws” quality. (The one exception: the ingenious “Open Water.”) Everything in the movie, from the chomping shark attacks that splash up...
In the 1970s, when horror movies started to get more and more extreme, it wasn’t just the blood and the savagery that increased. So did the sensation that you were seeing...
Why turn “Dog Day Afternoon,” one of the greatest and most iconic of New Hollywood movies, into a Broadway play? It’s not the first legendary film of the ’70s to get...
As a critic, I should probably take offense at the title of “The Last Critic.” The movie is a captivating portrait of Robert Christgau, the legendary music writer who was one...
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” is a scary, dizzying and essential documentary. If you have any interest in artificial intelligence (which is to say: the future), you...
