Monday, May 25, 2015

Hit Men on Holiday Get All Medieval By MANOHLA DARGIS

In "In Bruges," Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes have great fun rummaging around inside Martin McDonagh's modest bag of tricks.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Stuck on a Family Hamster Wheel, Mile After Mile, Year After Year By MANOHLA DARGIS

Tamara Jenkins's "The Savages" is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

The Rest Was Silence, but Then Came the Sequel By STEPHEN HOLDEN

"Hamlet 2" belongs to the school of free-for-all satiric farce whose creators ball up wads of ideas, apply chewing gum and hurl them against the wall to see what sticks.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

After 'Chicago,' Waiting for the Razzle-Dazzle by REBECCA TRAISTER

"Chicago" was supposed to usher in a new age of movie musicals. So where are they?

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

It’s a Mean-Girl World: Are You Bully or Victim? by STEPHEN HOLDEN

“You Again,” with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis, is a misogynistic revenge comedy.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Those Cheekbones! That Wind-Swept Hair! OMG, It's Zac Efron! By MANOHLA DARGIS

An adult transforms into his teen idol, er, adolescent self in "17 Again."

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Omigosh, Real Guys Love Sports and Musical Theater By STEPHEN HOLDEN

How lovely the American high school experience might be if it offered even a smidgen of the euphoria in "High School Musical 3: Senior Year."

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

A Troubled-Waters Musical as a Community Salve, by Jeannette Catsoulis

After the Storm follows a troupe of youngsters in New Orleans as they stage a benefit performance of the musical Once on This Island.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

A Broken Soul Wandering Aimlessly on the Long Path to Redemption By A. O. SCOTT

In the drama "I've Loved You So Long," Kristin Scott Thomas's furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Charades of Normalcy After Death of a Child by A. O. SCOTT

In “Rabbit Hole” Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart play grieving parents whose 4-year-old son has died.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

A Dance of Two Men, Twisting and Turning With a Gun That's More Than a Gun By MANOHLA DARGIS

In the remake of "Sleuth," what was once insignificant is now insufferable.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Dreamer, Live in the Here and Now By MANOHLA DARGIS

To say that Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" is one of the best films of the year is such a pathetic response to its soaring ambition that I might as well pack it in right now.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Swinging Singers By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

In "Naked Boys Singing!" 10 grown men (including one natural redhead) go full monty while belting out show tunes and high-kicking like muscular Rockettes.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Innocence Is Lost in Postwar Germany By MANOHLA DARGIS

"The Reader" is a scrupulously tasteful film about an erotic affair that turns to love.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Stuck on a Family Hamster Wheel, Mile After Mile, Year After Year By MANOHLA DARGIS

Tamara Jenkins's "The Savages" is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

A Powerful Chorus Harmonizing ‘Dark Phrases of Womanhood’ by MANOHLA DARGIS

With “For Colored Girls” Tyler Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Marry in Haste, Repent at Decaying Castle With Possessive MaterBy STEPHEN HOLDEN

In its cold-eyed assessment of the English aristocracy "Easy Virtue" has none of the lurking Anglophilia found in Merchant-Ivory movies.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Movie Review | 'Yiddish Theater: A Love Story'
Fight to Keep a Language on the Stage By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

Filmed in real time during the freezing winter of 2000, "Yiddish Theater: A Love Story" tracks eight days in the failing life of the Yiddish Public Theater.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Does Your Mother Know You Sing Abba Tunes? By A. O. SCOTT

You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

A Family Affair, Dysfunction Included By LAURA KERN

"The Boys" is an irresistible documentary about the inexhaustible sibling songwriting duo Richard and Robert Sherman.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Mr. Frost, Meet Mr. Nixon By MANOHLA DARGIS

It's twinkle versus glower in the big-screen edition of Peter Morgan's theatrical smackdown "Frost/Nixon."

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Between Heaven and Earth, Room for Ambiguity By MANOHLA DARGIS

The air is thick with paranoia in "Doubt," but nowhere as thick, juicy, sustained or sustaining as Meryl Streep's performance.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Movie Review | 'Good'
Aligning With the Nazis, Blindfold Tightly in Place By STEPHEN HOLDEN

"Good" is an anemic screen adaptation of C. P. Taylor's play about a respectable "good German" who passively acquiesces to Hitler's agenda.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Movie Review | 'Spinning Into Butter'
Crash Course in Racism at Quiet Campus By STEPHEN HOLDEN

This movie adaptation of Rebecca Gilman's play is a methodical, not to say mechanical and plodding, exploration of identity politics and language.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Plucky Apes Help to Save the Planet of the Humans By NEIL GENZLINGER

Journalism is all about having the courage to write the truth even if it will get you mocked by your relatives and co-workers, so here goes: "Space Chimps" is hilarious.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Learning to Swim in the Deep End of Life’s Pool by A. O. SCOTT

“Jack Goes Boating” tells the story of a bland livery-car driver who wants a better life.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

Catfights and Class Struggles, but Not at Katz's Deli By A. O. SCOTT

Watching "The Women," you wait in vain for a moment of snappy repartee, of fresh emotion, of grace or charm or pathos. You wait, by the way, for a very long time.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

When an Eloquent Voice Was Stilled in Hollywood By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Peter Askin's stirring documentary "Trumbo" gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime