Denerstein Unleashed

  The Critics Choice Association (I'm a member) kicked off the awards season with its announcement of nominations for its 31st annual Cr...

  Stephen Sondheim 's Merrily We Roll Along  premiered on Broadway in 1981. The show ran for a mere 16 performances, a shocking failure ...

A movie star with problems   When I first read about  Jay Kelly , I thought, “Who better to play aging movie star Jay Kelly than George Cloo...

   H amnet , director Chloe Zhao 's adaptation of a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell , takes us into the Elizabethan world where Shake...

  A somber Catholic church in upstate New York provides a gloomy backdrop for writer/director Rian Johnson 's third Knives Out movie, Wa...

  The afterlife isn't a new subject for movies. Albert Brooks tried his hand at it in 1991 with Defending Your Life , and we've seen...

      Fans probably will differ, but I've had enough. Four hours and 58 minutes   of Wicked -- the popular play divided into two halve...

  On the surface, Norwegian director Joachim Trier' s Sentimental Value   seems poised to tell a conventional family story. That might h...

   Some movies fit like old sweaters that are too comfortable to throw away. That’s how I felt about Rental Family , a movie starring Brenda...