Updated 12/13/2025

My review of Errol Morris's new Netflix documentary about Manson, mayhem, and major paranoia.

Like a lot of people, I spent some time after David Lynch's death reviewing his work, but really trying to make contact with him. He made contact with me. Here's my report .

The new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown , is a (surprisingly) compelling and convincing portrait of the artist as a young carnivore.

Fair Play , now on Netflix, had me hooked from the first scene. The hook was astonishment that it was this bad. But it only got worse .

Back in January, I was interviewed by a French director for a documentary on the Fonda family. Word came recently that Les Fonda – Une...

Speaking of Beatles, here's a conversation I had with author Tim Riley (Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary) late last year about the Get...

My review of the new version of The Boys in the Band, with notes on the 1970 film, is up at Critics at Large.

My piece on Town Bloody Hall (1979), the Pennebaker-Hegedus documentary about a 1970 Women's Liberation panel starring Germaine Greer and...

This short musing on a virtually unknown film directed by Peter Fonda in 1973 is my contribution to the current year-long series running...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a comic thriller, or thrilling comedy, retrieved from the volatile alchemy of "Drop Dead"-era New...