Variety’s take on ‘The Interview’
Editor's note: Originally scheduled for Dec. 25 wide release, "The Interview" has been shelved by Sony, with no plans for theatrical, VOD or streaming options. Many critics outside Chicago caught...
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Review: ‘Time Is Illmatic’ ★★★ 1/2
It's unlikely that hip-hop documentary "Time Is Illmatic" will have many showings as thrilling as its opening-night slot at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, where it preceded an impassioned live...
Film Review: ‘And So It Goes’
Somewhere, Billy Joel is cringing. While the title of Rob Reiner's "And So It Goes" seems intended as take-it-on-the-chin affirmation of life's inevitable detours and potholes, the movie itself feels...
Il Cinema Ritrovato: Cinematic Treasures Lost and Found, Back on the Bigscreen
A large crowd queues impatiently outside the cinema and, when the doors open, rushes in. In an instant, every available seat is taken. Toward the back of the auditorium, a...
Variety’s Scott Foundas Remembers Paul Mazursky: A Poetic Farceur of American Lives
"Are you happy?" the woman asks her husband midway through Paul Mazursky's "Blume in Love" (1973), to which he replies, "I'm just not miserable." It is a flashback to earlier,...
‘Capturing the Friedmans’ Subject Seeks to Overturn 1988 Conviction
Jesse Friedman looked composed but slightly weary Tuesday morning as he sat in a rented mini-bus en route from Manhattan's Upper East Side to a press conference at the Nassau...
Film Review: ‘Altman’
Given the who's-who of collaborators and acolytes of the late Robert Altman assembled for this feature-length tribute, it would have been all too easy for director Ron Mann to let...
Film Review: ‘Li’l Quinquin’
Perhaps not since Greta Garbo uttered her celebrated first chortle in "Ninotchka" has a film artist's entrance into comedy been quite as unexpected as that of French director Bruno Dumont....
Concert Review: Idina Menzel at Radio City Music Hall
Though she paused for only one costume change, Idina Menzel was an even greater study in multiple personalities during her solo Radio City Music Hall debut than in her current...
Clint Eastwood: Cowboy Led ‘Jersey Boys’ Down a New Trail
In 1962, the same year that a quartet of working-class New Jersey youths called the Four Seasons shot to the top of the pop charts with the irresistible doo-wop single...