As the Trisha Brown Dance Company continues on without Trisha Brown — the great postmodern choreographer who died in 2017 — the group has staged works on and off the proscenium stage, and even relocated her works to a beach. But a company can only get so far with its
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‘Opening Night’ Review: Ivo van Hove Makes a Stylish Movie Into a Sludgy Travesty
In a London auditorium, a work of art is being desecrated. “Opening Night,” John Cassavetes’s understatedly stylish 1977 movie about an actress struggling with midlife ennui, has been reimagined as a musical by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, and the result is a travesty. Its antiheroine, the Broadway superstar
‘The Truth vs. Alex Jones’ Review: How Conspiracy Theories Work
Even though the legal battle between Sandy Hook families and the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been thoroughly covered, it is still hard to watch him in the documentary “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” without experiencing a wave of nausea. Directed by Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”), the film methodically lays
Review: In ‘American Rot,’ the Painful Legacy of the Dred Scott Case
In a greasy spoon just off the New Jersey Turnpike, two men sit down for coffee. One, Walter Scott (Count Stovall), is a descendant of Dred Scott, and the other, Jim Taney (John L. Payne), is a great-great nephew of Roger B. Taney, the Supreme Court chief justice who, in
‘Road House’ Review: This Remake Amps Up the Action
The 1989 blockbuster “Road House,” was something of a pastiche. It delivered disreputable B-picture thrills with big-picture production value. The lead actor Patrick Swayze, playing a philosophizing roughneck, smirked with unshakable confidence while breaking arms and jaws, as cars and buildings blew up real good around him. The action was
‘Like They Do in the Movies’ Review: Laurence Fishburne Widens His Lens
When Laurence Fishburne wants to get closer to audiences of his one-man show, he lowers himself into a deep squat near the lip of the stage. Hands clasped and knees spread wide, the actor — who has become an avatar of inscrutability during his half-century screen and stage career —
‘Water for Elephants’ Review: Beauty Under the Big Top
The circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical. Source link
‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review: Something Weird, Multiplied
How many spirits can “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” fit in a firehouse? This overstuffed, erratically funny entry in the 40-year franchise crams in four main characters from the original 1984 blockbuster, six characters from the 2021 Oklahoma-set spinoff, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” and introduces three new occultists along with an assortment of ghosts,
‘Immaculate’ Review: Sydney Sweeney Is Wide-Eyed but Sly
Damsels in distress take different forms and come with diverse temperaments, skill sets and screams. The standard-bearer tends to be a pretty young thing who has enough life in her that you don’t want it or her snuffed out (well, usually). Sometimes she’s babysitting in suburbia; at other times she
‘Late Night With the Devil’ Review: Selling Your Soul for the Ratings
On Halloween night, 1977, the first in the crucial sweeps week for “Night Owls,” Delroy and his producers come up with a desperate, last ditch idea to spike ratings: they design a show full of spectacle that will tap into the cultural craze for all things occult. The guest list