“I Need That” reviewed
Two of Teresa Rebeck's latest plays are receiving their New York premieres in high-profile mountings: the flower shop drama Dig off-Broadway at Primary Stages and the Danny DeVito-led I Need…
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Two of Teresa Rebeck's latest plays are receiving their New York premieres in high-profile mountings: the flower shop drama Dig off-Broadway at Primary Stages and the Danny DeVito-led I Need…
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, the first feature by the writer and director Raven Jackson, is a comprehensively imagined and realized film, each of its elements brought to life…
Love is pain in several ways in Fingernails. In the near future of Christos Nikou’s dystopian sci-fi film, they’ve gotten compatibility down to a science. To measure your affection, you…
An old-school true life sports drama with all the highs and lows of Hollywood storytelling built right into it, "Nyad" covers all the bases one wants considered in an athlete…
Jenny (Sandra Oh), a 40-something ball of chaos, is introduced in Quiz Lady the way you might expect of someone whose life savings are contingent on a hazardous fish bone-related…
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla is not the first time the story of the woman married to the world’s most famous man has been told, but it’s the first time she’s gotten top billing.…
A Haunting in Venice is the best of Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot movies. It's also one of Branagh's best, period, thanks to the way Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green dismantle…
Over eight plot-packed hours, Netflix‘s time-spanning police drama Bodies never quite falls on its face — high praise for a genre whose convolutions reliably start off entertaining and end up…