Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the first game that my once top-of-the-line computer can’t run. Not on performance mode, not on the lowest settings,...
In the 1960s, the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke coined a useful adage: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” He was right, as demonstrated...
Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate with acts of seeing. Some...
‘Flight Risk’ In Mel Gibson’s return to directing, an air marshal (Michelle Dockery) joins a pilot (Mark Wahlberg) to fly a high-level informant (Topher Grace) to...
One early evening in December, the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled his country as rebel forces advanced on Damascus. In France, three days later, one of...
It has been interesting to watch directors fiddle with the kind of filmmaking technology we’re all carrying around in our pockets. Long before he made “Anora,”...
The tightly constructed story unfolds chronologically in scenes of varying length that end and begin abruptly, and are separated by a few seconds of black. As...
“Today the nominations were announced for the 97th Oscars. Yeah, it was great. And ‘Wicked’ was nominated for best picture. Yes. Yeah, people heard and were,...
The first sound on “Eusexua,” the new album by FKA twigs, is a brisk, muffled thud, like the heartbeat behind a racing pulse. It’s a signal...
The Golden Globes really are back. After a scandal-ridden few years that had the Golden Globes on the ropes, that awards body’s influence could be felt...
