The New York Times – Film:
Jonathan Glazer has made a hollow, self-aggrandizing art-film exercise set in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
Author: Manohla Dargis
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‘Wonka’ Review: Willy When He Was Young and Oh So Sweet
The New York Times – Film:
Timothée Chalamet stars as the chocolatier in this musical origin story, playing a wide-eyed innocent instead of an eccentric mad-hatter.
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‘Poor Things’ Review: Monster Mash
The New York Times – Film:
Emma Stone runs amok with Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe in Yorgos Lanthimos’s off-key Victorian-era riff on “Frankenstein.”
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‘Origin’ Review: The Roots of Our Racism
The New York Times – Film:
Ava DuVernay’s new feature film, adapted from the Isabel Wilkerson book “Caste,” turns the journalist into a character who examines oppression.
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‘La Syndicaliste’ Review: Power Plays
The New York Times – Film:
Isabelle Huppert plays a union representative swept up in a byzantine conspiracy in this French movie, which is based on a true crime.
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‘May December’ Review: She’ll Be Your Mirror
The New York Times – Film:
In Todd Haynes’s latest, Natalie Portman is an actress studying the real-life model for her character, (Julianne Moore), a woman with a tabloid back story.
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‘Napoleon’ Review: A Lumpy, Grumpy Little Man
The New York Times – Film:
Joaquin Phoenix is oddly mesmerizing as the French emperor in Ridley Scott’s historical epic charting his rise and ruin.
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‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ Review: A Beautiful Collaboration
The New York Times – Film:
For his 44th documentary, Frederick Wiseman journeys to the French countryside to examine the workings of a family-owned, Michelin-starred restaurant.
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‘Maestro’ Review: Leonard Bernstein’s Life of Ecstasy and Agony
The New York Times – Music:
As director and star, Bradley Cooper delivers an intimate portrait of the composer and his many private and public selves.