Laura Linney

In Hyde Park on Hudson, It's Patriotic to Pleasure a President

On His Majesty's secret service

The Details

Half a Century in, the New York Film Festival Thrives

Fit at fifty

Worst Parties Of All Time: Club Kid Outlaw Bash

Here's another installation in my six-part series of NYC's Best and Worst Parties I've Ever Been To: THE WORST: *A 1991 club kid outlaw party "Outlaw parties" were the bashes illegally held at some public space or other, where everyone showed up on time for a change, knowing the cops would come ... More >>

Tony Nominee John Benjamin Hickey: My Interview

​A longtime Broadway fave from revivals like Cabaret and Mary Stuart, John Benjamin Hickey is giving a powerful performance in the acclaimed revival of The Normal Heart, in which he plays the Times writer who becomes involved with the Larry Kramer character (Joe Mantello), with bittersweet res ... More >>

Mark Ruffalo's Directorial Debut, Sympathy for Delicious Needs More Magic, Less Magic DJ

ON THE FRONTLINE

Christina Ricci makes her debut on Broadway

2010 Tonys: Nominations Announced, Big on Idiot Material

​The 2010 Tony nominations are out, and the yearly ceremony that becomes more and more designed to persuade people from anywhere but New York City to spend money on theater is soon to follow. The idea behind the Tonys is simply to get Broadway to appeal to the rest of America in a big, fancy ... More >>

My Tony Nomination Predictions!

​In case you live for the nominations like I do (and by the way, they'll be announced tomorrow morning), here are my guesses. Disclaimer: I'm at a disadvantage. I actually saw the shows!

The Most Star-Studded Tony Awards Evah!

Red Hook gets tragic: Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber in "A View From the Bridge." Photo by Joan Marcus​That's what'll happen if this year's batch of giant movie-and-TV-stars-turned-theater-actors gets nominated! (Or even if they're just asked to present--or usher.) This will probably b ... More >>

Publicists Eat Caca

​There are many lovely publicists out there--well, maybe three--but so many of them are mud-eating miscreants who either can't follow through with what they say or mean what they say or do their legwork before they bother a poor columnist like me with their hideous Indian-giving. (Sorry, Nati ... More >>

Time Stands Still and As You Like It Link Love to Wartime; Shepard's Ages of the Moon Refights Old Battles

The Other Man Wastes Terrific Cast on Dreary Filmmaking

Sarah Palin Sucks, Sean Penn Rocks

Sorting through trailer trash, trying not to nod off during the Emmys.

Steve & Idi Is Intriguingly Weird

And intrigue bogs down Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Boeing-Boeing

There Will Be Gold: Oscar Predictions Come True

Oscar Predictions Filled With Greed and Vengeance!

From the seer, suckers: The nominees, plus trash talk about some non-nominees

Freaks and Geeks

So many starlets in the sky, plus a sprinkling of comic-book characters

Savage Love

Testing the limits family, one nursing-home application at a time

Dean Johnson's Legacy, Anna Nicole's Lunacy

Devout banter about a very different Bible class, plus sleuthing about Sleuth and ragging on Rita

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Down Under

Everyone suffers in Jindabyne, a Raymond Carver adaptation and study in unresolved tension

Spy Vs. Spy

After dissecting the boy fabulist, Billy Ray moves on to bigger kill: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

'Man of the Year'

'Driving Lessons'

Noah Baumbach's Comedy of Humiliation

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Arrested Development

Noah Baumbach revisits the fallout of a boho Brooklyn divorce

Mother Knew Best

Georgia on our mind: An appreciation of the Squid director's film-critic mom

Killer Whale

Noah Baumbach's ink-stained memoir is a heartbreaking and hilarious comedy of humiliation

The Devil's Rejects: Effective Frights and Brain-Dead Writes

Open Season

Fall brings hope of a brave New World and a historic Violence

The XXX Files

Too late for the election, a politically relevant biopic makes the case for sexual tolerance

Sex, Actually

Filming the life of erotic researcher Alfred Kinsey, director Bill Condon finds it's déjà vu all over again

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Return to Sender

Tadpole reborn: Talky indie scores with unglamorous sex, everything else an afterthought

Screen Siege

Cinematic campaigning: This fall, filmmakers assault the status quo at a theater near you

For Sore Eyes

In a time of narrowing vision, Margulies's excellent old play makes a welcome Sight

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Odd Couplings: Brit Stars Flounder in Singleton Dysfunction

Play Mystic For Me

With an ambitious crime thriller, Clint Eastwood opens NYFF and returns to top form

Dead Man Gawking

Dull Heads Among Windy Spaces

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The Plagues

In Sickness and in Stealth

100 Years of Solitude

What Would the Community Think

Pro & Con Artists

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Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).