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Although Ray Romano has dabbled in writing quite a bit, including a series he created called Men of a Certain Age, the star (best known for the Emmy winning sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, which certainly contained lots of material drawn from his own life and family experiences) is now moving to the big screen with…

Editor’s note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author’s point of view. In trying to opine that the presentation of evidence about a horrific day in American history did not rise to…

"It takes a while to warm up to me," says Jennifer Lopez in a pep talk to the troupe of admirably stoic dancers she's been putting through the wringer for several months. The same is true of Amanda Micheli's documentary Halftime, a scattershot and largely anodyne portrayal of the actress-singer that snatches enough…

Johnny Rotten was right to sue to stop FX's Pistol from going forward. The Sex Pistols and PiL frontman ultimately was unsuccessful in his legal efforts last year to prevent the seminal band's music being used in the Danny Boyle-directed miniseries. However, Pistol, which dropped in its entirety today on Disney-owned H…

A diet of rice and tofu, plenty of regular, gentle exercise and excellent hospitals: the Japanese have nailed the formula for getting old prolifically. With a little less than 30% of the population over 65, Japanese society is now officially termed as "super-aged." Meanwhile, thanks to a low birth rate and an…

When his mother spoke, Ernest remembers, everything sounded important. "I cling to her light," he tells us in voiceover, an adult remembering how that felt. The Ernest he is recalling is just a little boy (Milan Doucansi), snuggled against Rose (Annabelle Lengronne, a wonderfully vivid presence), with his grave and…

Lucas' bishop warns him of the dangers before he sets out to minister to a remote community of Icelanders in Cannes Un Certain Regard title Godland. "It's easy to go mad there," he explains at his Copenhagen dining table, steadily chewing his way through the fabulous feast in front of him. Iceland, where the sun never…

Kelly Reichardt has been making minimal Americana since the early 1990s, mostly around the state of Oregon where she lives and mostly about her favored awkward squad: quiet square pegs who don't quite fit the round holes society provides. In this ongoing quest she has found many collaborators, but none more attuned to…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the first two episodes of Disney+’s series Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Force is not strong with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Debuting a few hours earlier than anticipated on Disney+, the first two episodes of the Ewan McGregor-starring miniseries are nearly all undiluted nostalgia with no…

Belgium's Lukas Dhont takes a deserved step up to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Close, only his second film — a minimalist melodrama that shows a definite growth in visual style but may be confronting to some with its deliberately unhurried, Eric Rohmer-esque aesthetic. The international success of Dhont's…

This year has produced several films about terrorist attacks in France. One Year and One Night by Isaki Lacuesta (which premiered in Berlin this year) and November by Cedric Jimenez which is being shown out of competition at Cannes, and Alice Winocour's deeply personal Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) which was inspired…

Esteemed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda walks a fine line between keen social observation and overt sentimental emotionalism in Cannes competition title Broker. Winner of the Palme d'Or in 2018 for Shoplifters and winner of the Jury Prize five years before that for Like Father Like Son, the writer-director once…