Natey Jones gives a star-making turn in The Harder they Come, a new musical adaptation (there have been several earlier attempts) of the 1972 film that brought Jimmy Cliff and…

It has been a half-decade since New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey charted the horrific crimes of Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein, helping give birth to the #MeToo…

The works of Yiyun Li don’t only address the darkest of areas – grief, loss, sadness – but also deal with them in the deepest of ways. So, too, does…

Jessica Chastain dares you – but to do what? Nearly 150 years ago, Nora Helmer left her husband with a door slam heard round the world, inspiring innumerable analyses of…

There’s no way around it: Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is a bad, bad boy. That’s the fun in watching the series You, initially based on Caroline Kepnes’ novels. That’s the…

Seventy-five years ago today, Fred Zinnemann’s The Search was released in theaters. It’s the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mothe,r who search for each other across post-World…

The characters in Michael Bunin’s The Coast Starlight, now running at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater following a premiere at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse), have gotten a ticket…

Shows don’t get more unique or brazen than Misty, Arinzé Kene's sort of-solo show, currently taking a bow at the West Side’s The Shed after a celebrated West End run.…

Acts of deceptions are all around in Emily Feldman’s middling The Best We Could, an Our Town-inspired glance at a family in transition. Notice that I did not say “examination,”…

In M3gan, a variation on the Victor Frankenstein story updated by Akela Cooper (Malignant) and James Wan (the Insidious and Saw franchises, and perhaps any other contemporary movie involving sharp…