Tag: Culture / The Front Row

Some films disappear through mere neglect, but those that vanish after being suppressed bear witness, in their absence, to a challenge to power. So it…

The dangerous doctrines of the far right that have manifested in the past week, the past two months, and the past four years have deep…

Imagination isn’t only extravagant fantasy; it’s also a comprehensive realism, which offers a view of characters in their full spectrum of activities, and dramas in…

Because of the scant financial prospects during a time of scant theatrical attendance, the year-end crop of movies being positioned for the Oscars and other…

There are two jazz-centered movies opening this week, though one of them, the Pixar film “Soul,” can be passed over quickly because it approaches the…

The credits of Steven Soderbergh’s new film, “Let Them All Talk,” don’t quite tell the truth. The movie ostensibly stars a quintet of formidable actors…

The project that Orson Welles planned to film, in 1939, before turning his attention to “Citizen Kane” was a mystery called “Smiler with a Knife,”…

Andy Garcia and Sofia Coppola in a scene from “The Godfather: Part III,” originally released in 1990.Photograph from Allstar Picture Library / Alamy There’s a…

The best thing about David Fincher’s new film, “Mank,” is that it isn’t about what one expects it to be about. More specifically, the movie…

Great movies expand the world of cinema, and the Sudanese director Suhaib Gasmelbari’s documentary “Talking About Trees” does so in a way that looks daringly…