Reviews
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‘Wendell & Wild’ Review: Jordan Peele x Henry Selick Collaboration Suffers from Jumbled Tones
Selick (“Coraline”) would seem to be a perfect pair for Peele, but the (creepy, gorgeous) pieces of their joint effort don’t fit together
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‘Walking With Ghosts’ Broadway Review: Gabriel Byrne Wades Through the Usual Memoir Horror Stories
The actor’s formidable career takes a distant second place to tales of abuse
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‘TAR’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is at Her Peak in Razor-Sharp Character Study
Todd Field’s drama engages playfully and provocatively with hot-button topics as Blanchett delivers yet another fiery performance
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‘Call Jane’ Review: Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver Shine as Underground Abortionists
This historical drama combines compassion, urgency and wit as it examines women helping women in the not-so-distant bad old days
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‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Review: A Beautiful, Horrifying New Take on Classic Anti-War Story
Edward Berger’s film is the first German-language adaptation of a novel once banned and burned in that country
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‘Straight Line Crazy’ Off Broadway Review: Ralph Fiennes Tries to Bulldoze Over Robert Moses
But his performance and a few fictional characters bring a wrecking ball to David Hare’s new play
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‘The Good Nurse’ Review: Jessica Chastain Catches a Killer in Tense Medical Mystery
Eddie Redmayne balances this two-hander as a serial killer in scrubs
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‘Montag’ Off Broadway Review: An Onstage Thriller About 2 Women in a State of Siege
Kate Tarker’s Off Broadway drama gets a visually stunning production at Soho Rep
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‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Off Broadway Review: Robert O’Hara Rethinks a Classic to Brilliant Effect
The director also delivers the best ensemble performing on the New York stage right now
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‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’ Review: Netflix Anthology Lets 8 Horror Directors Shine
Each episode tells a different horror story from a different filmmaker, to varying results
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‘Voodoo Macbeth’ Review: Backstage Tale of Early Orson Welles Triumph Speaks to Modern Inclusivity
Modern creators looking to diversify casts and crews could take a page from the legendary 1936 stage production celebrated in this biopic
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‘The Peripheral’ Review: Chloe Grace Moretz Shines in Gamer-Friendly Sci-Fi Series From ‘Westworld’ Team
The Prime Video series from EPs Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy is based on the William Gibson novel of the same name
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‘The Return of Tanya Tucker’ Review: Country Firebrand Makes a Comeback in Touching Documentary
Kathryn Horan’s film is the respectful chronicle of a renaissance engineered by Brandi Carlile
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‘Descendant’ Review: Powerful Doc Examines Generations of Oppression and Survival
Margaret Brown connects Africans kidnapped for the slave trade to their descendants, battling environmental racism, in a moving history
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‘Topdog/Underdog’ Broadway Review: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins Create Sparks
Kenny Leon directs an electric revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 2001 classic
