Dramatizing an infamous historical matchup that pitted a capable woman against a buffoonish, showboating man (why does that sounds so familiar?), “Battle of the Sexes” is a winning crowd-pleaser
Emma Stone
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Film review: ‘La La Land’
An ambitiously vibrant, often dazzling pastiche of great
movie musicals, “La La Land” is practically impossible to dislike.
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Film Review: “Irrational Man”
Here we are once again: another year, another Woody Allen film. The prolific director’s latest cinematic endeavor comes packed with the filmmaker’s trademarks: erudite intellectuals sit around conversing about philosophy and morality until an ill-conceived scheme (or two) comes along to shake up the snow-globe sized world they inhabit. But as in Allen’s past few […]
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Film Review: “Aloha”
Well, it has finally dawned on me that I might be in an abusive relationship with filmmaker Cameron Crowe. Things were just so good at the beginning, with “Say Anything…,” “Singles,” “Jerry Maguire,” and “Almost Famous,” all perfect in their own unique way yet thrumming with beautifully universal truths. But at the turn of the […]
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Film Review: “Birdman”
It is of course tempting, if a bit too facile, to construct a comparison between the situation in “Birdman” and the realities of Michael Keaton’s career. He began performing as a comic, then as an actor in some entertaining film comedies — “Night Shift,” “Johnny Dangerously,” and “Mr. Mom,” for example — then achieved great […]
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Film Review: “Magic in the Moonlight”
The experience of watching Woody Allen’s annual movie, “Magic in the Moonlight,” suggests that last year’s “Blue Jasmine” represents something of an anomaly in his long, prolific career. In that picture he abandoned a number of his perennial subjects — the upper West Side ambiance, the preoccupation with sexual inadequacy, the tendency to rely on […]
