Archive - The SS Ben Hecht, by Stephen Silver

Selections from DOC NYC 2024

Capsule reviews of 'Gallagher,' 'Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse,' 'Gaucho Gaucho,' 'Surveilled,' '2073' and 'Secret Mall Apartment'

18 hrs ago •

‘Wicked’’’s first half is flawed, but often fantastic

If you can get past that it’s a 160-minute adaptation of just half of the Broadway hit, Jon M. Chu’s film is a large-scale, beautifully mounted musical.

Nov 19 •

Kieran Culkin shines brightly in Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The Real Pain’

In Eisenberg's winning sophomore directorial effort, Culkin and Eisenberg play two very different types of Jewish guys visiting Poland.

Nov 19 •

Conan hosting the Oscars? This could work

Hosting the Academy Awards is the most thankless job in showbiz- but Coco could be the exception.

Nov 18 •

Fin: Why I’m on Bluesky- and sticking with X too

Also: The CCA Documentary Awards, a documentary nobody wants, Lena Dunham’s FTX, Bridget Jones’ Peacock, and more from this week’s notes column.

Nov 15 •

‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ is an electrifying documentary of music, history and politics

Johan Grimonprez’s film about the 1961 coup against Congo’s Patrice Lumumba is one of the most exhilarating and inventive nonfiction pictures of the…

Nov 14 •

‘The Killing Fields,’ a harrowing film about journalists and the Cambodian genocide, turns 40

Roland Joffe's 1984 film was the story of a Cambodian journalist and his American counterpart.

Nov 13 •

'Gladiator II' is exciting, but completely ephemeral

I had forgotten almost everything about the film by the next morning.

Nov 12 •

The election results are not best explained by what most annoys you personally

You might not like, say, diverse casting in Star Wars movies. But that’s not the reason why Trump won. Also: No, Jon Stewart should not be president.

Nov 11 •

Fin: The Democrats need to break their celebrity addiction

Plus: A new (maybe?) Star Wars trilogy, RIP Quincy Jones, a dubious Kanye documentary and more in this week's notes column.

Nov 8 •

10 years ago, 'Interstellar' was Christopher Nolan's turn into hard sci-fi

The film, released in 2014, sent Matthew McConaughey to space in an exploration of physics, big ideas, and fatherhood.

Nov 7 •

‘Heretic’ is a silly horror film with fake religious profundity

Hugh Grant stars as the missionary target from hell

Nov 6 •

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