Wednesday, December 26, 2018
One of the year’s most critically shellacked movies (the pros were forced to watch it in theaters on Christmas Day alongside the common hordes), Holmes & Watson begins as ineptly as an…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:13PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Slipped into theaters with few advance screenings or the usual ballyhoo for a Clint Eastwood film (this one featuring what might be the 88-year-old’s last leading performance), The Mule tu…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:39PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
For more than two decades, Nicole Holofcener has made wonderfully level-headed comedies that center on the loop-de-loops of the middle- and upper-middle-class female psyche — the contradic…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:38PMSunday, August 26, 2018
Bashing Neil Simon has been almost de rigueur for highbrow critics since the playwright had his first hits in the early sixties. But now that he’s 82 [Editor’s note: this story was origi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:37PMWednesday, April 4, 2018
For decades, filmmakers have turned to Al Pacino when they’ve wanted a galvanic leading man — a declaimer, a pop-top. But as the title character in the HBO movie Paterno, the actor barel…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
This was the best, most inspiring, and most sheerly likable Academy Awards telecast I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen ‘em all. (Well, all since 1967, when I was seven years old.) It was als…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:09AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Although Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince has a downward trajectory that left the audience at its Sundance premiere more muted than was warranted, it’s lifted into th…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:05PMFriday, September 29, 2017
Although Sony Pictures has advertised the hell out of Flatliners, it didn’t screen the movie for critics or even put it in theaters for the now-common Thursday night showings. The studio m…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:28PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Aaron Sorkin makes his feature-film directorial debut with Molly’s Game, based on the autobiography of a crazy-high-stakes poker impresario named Molly Bloom. Don’t expect lengthy, searc…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:08PMFriday, May 12, 2017
In 1983, Bette Gordon directed the chill, tantalizingly unresolved Variety, in which a young woman goes to work in the ticket booth of a hard-core porn theater and begins to see herself thro…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:03PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Mike Birbiglia’s second feature, Don’t Think Twice, is a bleak ensemble drama that charts the dissolution of a warm improv-comedy ensemble. It’s funny and inspiring and harsh and depre…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:49PMSunday, December 6, 2015
Nicholas Hytner’s twee film of Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van is the final injury to what was, in its original form, a perfect thing: Bennett’s diary entries recounting the appeara…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:42PMFriday, December 19, 2014
Early in the film of the fairy-tale operetta Into the Woods, I was nearly jumping out of my seat with glee. The creators of the original show, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, had intended…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMFriday, August 29, 2014
Kevin Kline is almost too good a fit for the aging Errol Flynn in the story of Flynn’s final affair — with a 15-year-old girl — in The Last of Robin Hood. Kline became a star onstage a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:00PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Twenty years ago, André Gregory gathered a group of great actors to rehearse Uncle Vanya; Louis Malle came in to film their work, almost as if he were shooting a documentary; and the re…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMFriday, June 20, 2014
It’s not hard to guess why Roman Polanski was moved to make a film of David Ives’s brilliantly silly play Venus in Fur. The tale of an arrogant male writer-director who’s increas…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:05AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
The tasteless bombardment that is Les Misérables would, under most circumstances, send audiences screaming from the theater, but the film is going to be a monster hit and award winner, and …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:33PM 
