In “The Eloquent Screen,” Gilberto Perez, who died in 2015, at the age of seventy-one, develops a grand theory of the cinema.Gilberto Perez, who died in 2015, at the age of seventy-one, was one of the ...

The Netflix series “Cheer,” about a Texas cheerleading team, shows that, in great routines, weakness is hidden, meaning that performances require deceptions, both of the cheerleader and the audience.T ...

There was something awkward and endearing, and also recognizable, in a resurfaced clip of Prince Harry pitching Meghan Markle for voice-over work to the head of Disney, in July, 2019.On Saturday, a sh ...

The Oscars reflect the Academy, but the Academy reflects nothing but its august name; plausible deniability and the shunning of responsibility are built into the current system.In the decade that I’ve ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be moving to Canada, where they might set their sights on Toronto, the ideal city to move to if you want to become less famous.When Prince Harry first started datin ...

Robert De Niro, who was passed over for a 2020 Oscar nomination, anchors “The Irishman”; his minimalist performance is inseparable from the depths of his personality and experience.Like clockwork, the ...