No Upside of Anger

44 Inch Chest
Running time 95 minutes
Written by Louis Mellis and
David Scinto
Directed by Malcolm Venville
Starring  Ray Winstone, Joanne Whalley, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt, Stephen Dillane, Ian McShane

If you value your I.Q., avoid a horror called 44 Inch Chest like V.D. This time capsule for misogyny is Read More

A Melting Pot of Mush

New York, I Love You
Running time 110 minutes
Written by Emmanuel Benbihy (concept) and Tristan Carné (premise), and various others
Directed by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer   
Starring Shia LeBeouf, Bradley Cooper, Blake Lively, Julie Read More

Vamoose, Jarmusch!

The Limits of Control
Running time 116 minutes
Written and DIRECTED BY Jim Jarmusch
Starring  Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt

As bad movies go, a nightmare called The Limits of Control can’t go fast enough to suit me. This is an empty, boring sedative by Jim Jarmusch, a writer-director with not enough talent Read More

A New York Treasure Whose Value Goes Up in … Frankfurt?

Around 10 p.m. on a brisk Sunday evening in early November, Penny Arcade, the Manhattan performance artist and former Warhol starlet, was onstage with a four-piece pickup band at Joe’s Pub in the East Village. The petite and curvy Ms. Arcade, 58, who was wearing snakeskin platforms and a sleek back cocktail dress, explained she Read More