Kenneth Turan

‘The King’ review: Timothee Chalamet takes Shakespeare once more into the breach

October 18, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Those familiar with uneasy friends Falstaff and Prince Hal owe a debt to William Shakespeare, who put them in multiple plays and made them so enduring that creative spirits from...

‘Official Secrets’ review: Keira Knightley stars as a true-life whistle blower

September 10, 2019 at 2:46 p.m.

The name Katharine Gun may not sound familiar to most Americans, but Daniel Ellsberg's certainly does, and Ellsberg turns out to be Gun's most eloquent advocate. The man who famously...

‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ review:

July 29, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

Who remembers the great names of journalism past? In a single generation, it's been said, they are one with Nineveh and Tyre. Is even Mike Wallace on the way to...

‘Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love’ review: A perfect muse, a doomed romance for Cohen

July 11, 2019 at 3:22 p.m.

Love stories are like Tolstoy's unhappy families: no two of them are alike. But even given that, the relationship chronicled in "Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love" has a quality...

‘Funan’ movie review: A family seeks to reunite amid terror of the Khmer Rouge in beautifully animated film

June 27, 2019 at 3:15 p.m.

"Funan" is a stunning piece of animation in which the beauty of the visuals and the horror of the situation are inextricably intertwined. Directed by Denis Do and based on...

‘The Spy Behind Home Plate’ review: Documentary digs into life of a complex ball player-turned-operative

June 20, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

They don't make baseball players like Moe Berg anymore. Judging by Aviva Kempner's authoritative and engrossing documentary "The Spy Behind Home Plate," they likely never did. Known as "the brainiest...

This year's Cannes Film Festival jury includes Oscar-winning and nominated filmmakers Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Pawel Pawlikowski and Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Elle Fanning.

Cannes Film Festival rebounds with bigger names, but less frenzy on the ground

May 14, 2019 at 1:13 p.m.

What a difference a year makes. Or does it? With the preeminent cinematic event that is the Festival de Cannes, both ways is the way it's always going to be....

‘Peterloo’ review: Mike Leigh revisits a 19th-century British tragedy that most Americans aren’t familiar with

May 1, 2019 at 4:33 a.m.

"Peterloo" is a paradox. Historical and contemporary, epic and intimate, political and personal, it is both unlike anything writer-director Mike Leigh has done before and the grand culmination of his...

Melissa Berton, left, and Rayka Zehtabchi, winners of the live action short film award for "Period. End of Sentence."

Oscars: ‘Green Book’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ signal a return to populism — but what about ‘Black Panther’?

February 26, 2019 at 8:59 p.m.

The Oscars giveth and the Oscars taketh away. These awards are their own beast; they follow the beat of their own drum, and if the devil takes the hindmost, it’s...

Review: Steven Soderbergh’s ‘High Flying Bird’ is a dazzling examination of issues in pro basketball

February 8, 2019 at 9:16 p.m.

When a film advertises itself, as “High Flying Bird” does, as the joint product of “the director of ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ and ‘Magic Mike’ and a writer of ‘Moonlight’,” it’s hard...

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