D Categories Movies Reviews October 15, 2021 Diana: the Musical takes a big ol’ dump on a tragic icon At last, a Broadway show that dares to ask “What if the People’s Princess was a hopeless twit?”
B Categories Anniversaries Features Movies September 24, 2021 Boosting the signal of 2001’s cult space Western musical The American Astronaut Twenty years on, Cory McAbee's singular cult film is nearly as impossible to find as it is to look away from.
C Categories Movies Reviews September 12, 2021 Come from Away’s warmth is undermined by key creative choices Come from Away, a musical true story about a town that took in 38 planes in the wake of 9/11, undercuts its warmth with its creative choices.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 11, 2021 TIFF: Dear Evan Hansen is a confounding adaptation of the stage musical Ben Platt's age is the least of our problems in Stephen Chbosky's misguided adaptation of the already-misguided musical Dear Evan Hansen.
A Categories Movies Reviews September 1, 2021 Amazon’s Cinderella is bippity-boppity-blah The songs are bad and the social commentary is even worse in this new take on the classic fairy tale.
C Categories Columns Criterion Corner Features August 31, 2021 Criterion Corner: Ashes and Diamonds, Company, Beasts of No Nation Netflix original Beasts of No Nation, Sondheim musical doc Company, and Andrzej Wajda's postwar masterpiece dot August's Criterion releases.
A Categories Movies Reviews August 5, 2021 Annette is a bold, beautiful corpse of a musical Leos Carax's latest is a stripped-down rock opera that oscillates between parody and satire to fittingly uneven effect.
V Categories Movies Reviews August 2, 2021 Vivo is a decent tune when it’s not riffing on smarter animated musicals Lin-Manuel Miranda fronts a fun but occasionally frenetic and overly busy cartoon musical.
S Categories Reviews TV July 7, 2021 Schmigadoon is a delightful pastiche of the cloying Golden Age musical Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key lose themselves in a sunny song-and-dance in Apple TV+'s short, but inviting, musical comedy.
& Categories Movies Reviews June 8, 2021 “In the Heights” doesn’t meet its lofty aspirations Jon M. Chu's adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical has choice moments and a solid cast but is far too messy to work.
