The Chamber Music Society launched its new season with a sold-out all-Haydn concert that revealed the composer's seminal importance to the development of classical music.
Read More »Top Stories
Theater Review (NYC): ‘Good Bones’
In his sharp, funny new play 'Good Bones, James Ijames explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Queer,’ Starring Daniel Craig
Luca Guadagnino's fabulous film adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel resonates with a brilliant portrayal by Daniel Craig.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Anthony Edwards in ‘The Counter’
Anthony Edwards and Susannah Flood in 'The Counter' portray characters in an evolving relationship that moves into profound territory.
Read More »Music Reviews: Bob Dylan & the Band’s ‘The 1974 Live Recordings,’ plus Dave Edmunds, Randall Bramblett, and Belsitzman & Herman
Concerts from 1974 capture Bob Dylan (& the Band) at a key juncture in this huge box set.
Read More »Fantastic Fest Movie Review: Elijah Wood Connects with the ‘Bookworm’
Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher play a father and daughter who don't know one another, but must start off on a search for a scary beast.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Transamazonia’
A young girl survives a plane crash, becomes a faith healer and with her father helps Indigenous people fight loggers.
Read More »Fantastic Fest Movie Review: Amazing Surprises in ‘The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee’
Christopher Lee had an amazing life beyond his life on the screen. This film takes you there .
Read More »New York Film Festival Movie Review: ‘Nickel Boys,’ Based on the Colson Whitehead Novel
'Nickel Boys' chronicles the strong friendship between two young Black men negotiating a horrific, abusive reform school in 1960s Florida.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic’ by Alan Moore and Steve Moore
Like magic as a topic itself, this veritable tome of magic has more and more on each page as the reader studies, with wonderfully varied art too.
Read More »
Blogcritics The critical lens on today's culture & entertainment