The Art of War
The true story of how a team of artists and art historians fought to keep the Nazis from looting or destroying priceless works of...
Odds and Ends
I spend every December catching up with films that I didn’t see in the theater, and every year I find interesting ones that never...
Ryan’s Hope
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the fifth big-screen adventure of the all-American superspy invented by Tom Clancy, the second one that imagines Jack as...
Apple and Tree
For the first two minutes of Gimme Shelter, I thought this modestly budgeted drama was on to something. Crazier, I thought its star, Vanessa...
All Folked Up
When I ran my list of 2013’s best movies a couple of weeks ago, I left off one film that was on many other...
Letts Do It
I need to say this right off the bat: I haven’t seen Tracy Letts’ play August: Osage County on stage. I’ve heard that the...
Uh Huh Her
Spike Jonze has always been brilliant, but lately he’s become something more. You can see it in the tenderness that pervades both his previous...
SEALs on the Ground
I’m trying to figure out whether Peter Berg is a formerly promising filmmaker who has turned into a hack, or if that early promise...
Top 10 Movies of ’13
Here’s how strong 2013’s movies were: Nebraska, Enough Said, The East, and The Wolf of Wall Street aren’t even cracking my honorable mention list,...
Jordan Rules
This I know about The Wolf of Wall Street: It’s not Martin Scorsese’s best movie, but it’s certainly his funniest.
It really is a shame...
