Film
Joseph Gordon Levitt in The Walk.
Reviews of The Walk, Sleeping with Other People, Stonewall, and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. |
Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky and Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fisher in Pawn Sacrifice.
There may be happy, well adjusted, even-tempered geniuses out there. But no one ever makes movies about them. |
Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway in The Intern.
It’s a crime, a real aesthetic crime, what writer-director Nancy Meyers has done to Robert De Niro. |
 Is it possible to make a bad film staring Patricia Clarkson and Sir Ben Kingsley? Maybe, but LEARNING TO DRIVE isn’t it. |
Luigi Lo Cascio, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Emanuela Scarpa, and Alessandro Gassman in The Dinner.
Opening at the North Park this weekend, this Italian drama takes a meandering route to get to where it’s going. |
Lily Tomlin and Julie Garner in Grandma.
No one knows better how to snap off a sarcastic retort than Lily Tomlin, and she gets plenty of them here. |
 Scott Cooper’s Black Mass is a grim, violent, and sharply visceral crime drama. It also tells an important American story. |
 Mount Everest? It’s for pussies, says writer-mountineer Jon Krakauer. |