26 stories by "Alissa Wilkinson"
The film’s portrait of the work lives of a young journalist and a top editor holds lessons for us. It’s just that the lessons have changed with time.
“Bernstein’s Wall,” directed by Douglas Tirola, focuses on the composer and conductor’s belief that art can be an uplifting and uniting force.
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are terrific in Steven Soderbergh's sharp-eyed take on art and money.
A family navigates the year after parents separate in this funny, surrealist Icelandic drama.
Claire Foy stars along with a goshawk in an adaptation of Helen MacDonald's award-winning memoir.
The Shakespearean monologue that is featured twice in "Hamnet" has long informed the movies, often in surprising ways that can make us rethink the words.
In films like "A Few Good Men," the director's ideas of honor and morality were stated as plainly as could be.
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.
New shows by Jen Tullock, Jordan E. Cooper and others have a common theme: You can walk away from the church, but the songs stay with you.
Ethan Hawke plays the legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart on a wistful one-night quest to save his soul.
Though Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman are the directors, inmates with smuggled phones are important collaborators.
Her casting in the forthcoming "Kiss of the Spider Woman" underscores how her best onscreen work has always been informed by what's happening offscreen.
Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe star in an overstuffed drama about a man haunted by the weight of history.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman star in a strangely bad remake of "The War of the Roses."
Shari Lewis's pioneering role in children's television becomes clear in a new film that can be perfunctory about her life.
In a new documentary, the actress talks about the prejudice and loneliness she faced after becoming the rare Hollywood star who is deaf.
Online, onstage and onscreen, performers are playing multiple parts. The effect of watching someone shape-shift can be both thrilling and unnerving.
The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community and connection.
The film argues that Loie Fuller was an inventive artist responsible for things we take for granted. If only the movie were as creative as its star.
This film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play falters in some specifics, but is still vital viewing.
The film follows a National Ballet of Canada production of "Swan Lake" as dancers and others deal with long-simmering issues of racism and sexism.
Annie Baker's debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece " a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother.
The film is a gentle, emotional drama about a family struggling to stay together. It's also about the power of theater.
Adaptations of films will be a factor at the Tonys this year. Surprisingly the best of these shows are not always the most faithful.
From King George to Aaron Burr, the hit musical's Biblical literacy makes its story and characters even richer.
