This revival of Arthur Miller's witch-hunt allegory, set in 17th-century Salem but really about McCarthyism, comes along far too late to retain a scrap of its original courage. It has a hard enough time retaining a scrap of seriousness. The all-girl gang of devil-raisers, scurrying and screeching with carefully rehearsed …
Alan Bennett's much-decorated theater piece comes to the screen with its original stage director and cast intact: Nicholas Hytner, that would be, and Richard Griffiths, Stephen Campbell Moore, Frances de la Tour, et al. A permanent record, as it were, further decorated, for the occasion, with extraneous bits of rockin' …
Miss Shepherd, the titular lady — played without a trace of self-regard or emotional grasping by Maggie Smith — does not have much of a life. It’s hard to get much going when you live in a van, harder still when you’re old and slightly daft and imprisoned by your …
Curiously disjointed and jumpy for something that originated as a theater piece (by Alan Bennett), with little in the way of sustained dialogues and developed scenes. George III of England, but no longer of the American Colonies, is given a distinctive way of talking ("Yes! Yes!" "What? What?" "Hey! Hey!"), …
For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors. Faced …
A funny-how-things-turn-out relationship comedy. The situation is slow to set up -- the pregnant Brooklyn social worker wants to raise her child with her gay-guy roommate rather than her live-apart boyfriend -- and the shortsighted characters are slow to think through the consequences. The natural complications are not, in the …