37 stories by "Richard Brody"
Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of a novel about a fictionalized adviser to Vladimir Putin reduces politics to personalities and atrocities to anecdotes.
Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large.
Nadav Lapid's furiously satirical drama, about a musician's willful complicity in a war he reviles, tells a vast story of personal and national degradation.
Jim Jarmusch's three-part drama, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, casts such notables as Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett in wry, ironic probes of grown children's relationships with thei…
Ira Sachs's film, starring Ben Whishaw as the renowned photographer and Rebecca Hall as his interviewer, is a personal memorial for the protagonist and his milieu.
This compelling adaptation of Ibsen's classic play, starring Tessa Thompson and moving the action to nineteen-fifties England, expands and arguably deepens the original.
This action drama, set in 1970 and starring Josh O'Connor, brings political conflict and existential comedy into the finely observed details of crime and escape.
William Greaves's great historical documentary, centered on a 1972 reunion of Harlem Renaissance luminaries, is still awaiting completion.
Ethan Coen, working with his wife, Tricia Cooke, endows this neo-noir comedy, about a lesbian detective, with dazzle but little more.
This historical drama, about efforts to clear the wrongly convicted French captain Alfred Dreyfus, brings to mind the director's own legal troubles.
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
The documentary "Videoheaven" and MOMA's series "A Theater Near You" consider how people watch films and why it matters.
J. Hoberman's teeming history of New York's avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of voices.
Zeinabu irene Davis's 1999 feature, a century-spanning vision of two deaf Black women in Chicago, is among the greatest independent films but has rarely been screened.
In a time of crisis, the Academy is offering a bulwark of humane consensus, though its blind spots remain.
Roberto Rossellini's 1950 film exemplifies the fruitful creative tensions that can arise out of casting ordinary people alongside movie stars.
Richard Brody reviews the horror movie "Us," written and directed by Jordan Peele and starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, and Elisabeth Moss.
Richard Brody reviews "Bathtubs Over Broadway," a documentary by Dava Whisenant that examines the industrial musical"plays produced by corporations for their employees to enjoy at nationwide…
Richard Brody writes about the four versions of the film "A Star is Born""from 1937, 1954, 1976, and 2018"and recommends three for streaming, in addition to the 1932 film "What Price Hollywo…
Richard Brody reviews "A Star Is Born," directed by Bradley Cooper and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga.
Richard Brody reviews "The Spy Who Dumped Me," directed by Susanna Fogel and starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon.
Richard Brody reviews "The Greatest Showman," about the life of P. T. Barnum, directed by Michael Gracey and starring Hugh Jackman.
Richard Brody and Anthony Lane review films currently in theatres, including "Blade Runner 2049," "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)," and more.
Anthony Lane and Richard Brody review films currently in theatres, including "Blade Runner 2049," "The Florida Project," "Faces Places," and more.
Anthony Lane and Richard Brody review movies currently in theatres, including "Mother!," "Battle of the Sexes," and more.
