Srtaff Reports

Each year seems to bring further sales statistics that portend the death of classical recorded music, at least to some critical Cassandras. Well, if things are so bad, why do...

The history of the United States is, essentially, one of dissent. Certain elected officials may have managed to establish legacies of transformation, but real change in this country has inevitably...

'The Red Shoes' **** Was there a time in our culture when we took this mad, exquisite dream of a film for granted? (Punch line in the musical "A Chorus...

'Me and Orson Welles' ***1/2 A real charmer, "Me and Orson Welles" is the work of a director who takes nostalgia, romantic possibility and the theater seriously, without being a...

'THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG' **1/2 How can a good-looking animated feature with a Randy Newman song as kicky as "When We're Human" end up being just sort of ......

'Invictus' *** If we're so post-racial in the Obama era, why does every other movie this season lead to another round of ethnographic scrutiny? "The Princess and the Frog" presents...

'Make No Little Plans' **1/2 This hourlong documentary on architect Daniel Burnham works best as an informed primer on the visionary whose grandly ambitious "Plan of Chicago" dared the city...

Clipse, 'Til the Casket Drops' *** (out of 4) How to follow up a hip-hop classic? Clipse's 2006 album, "Hell Hath No Fury," was a sparse, brutally efficient, filler-free song...

I approached TNT's new "Men of a Certain Age" with a fair amount of wariness. According to the press notes, the show "explores the unique bonds of male friendship," a...

'The Strip' *1/2 The comedy "The Strip" carries a provocative title until you realize it refers to a mall type, or possibly the kind of power source sold at the...