JAY KELLY
Watching the latest film from Noah Baumbach, which he wrote with the gifted actress Emily Mortimer, I couldn’t help…
THE TENDER BAR: CYNICS…
The Tender Bar is based on a memoir by J.E. Moehringer, adapted by the screenwriter of The Departed and…
REMEMBERING MY FRIEND JIMMY…
Several years ago I got a phone call no one ever wants to receive: it appeared that Jimmy Karen…
SAVING LOST FILMS, SETTING…
There is a bumper crop of interesting documentaries right now. Some of them play the festival circuit, others get…
SUBURBICON: YOU WOULDN’T WANT…
There’s no use beating about the bush: I really didn’t like this movie. It tries to embrace both social…
‘Money Monster’ Shortchanges Suspense
The world is so crazy that it’s tough for social satirists to devise anything more absurd than what we…
Vintage Hollywood Lite: Hail,…
Joel and Ethan Coen are as unpredictable as they are prolific. We never know what to expect from them—a…
