Updated 2/24/2024

Thoughts on the successive and singular permutations (novel, film, sitcom) of a familiar and beloved comedic property.

My appreciation of Panic, an underappreciated, little-seen movie about the psychological crisis of a hit man.

At Critics at Large: remembering a modest but flawless little crime drama that has never left my memory.

At Critics at Large: My piece on the bilious, brilliant books of the Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta.

My review of David Thomson’s Television: A Biography, concerning the medium described by Norman Mailer as “a small and modest malignancy,...

The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna just commenced a Henry Fonda retrospective, which will run through mid-October. Among the 25 Fonda...

Up today at Critics at Large: my take on Nicolas Roeg's often maligned Bad Timing.

My contribution to KLUTE YOUR ENTHUSIASM, a new and already fascinating series on the neo-noir films of the Sixties (1964-73), appears at...

At Critics at Large, my reconsideration of a problematic, important film, in which the question is asked: What does Rod Steiger have to...

At Critics at Large, my appreciation of a longtime favorite film, The World of Henry Orient – and the equally fine novel that inspired it.