Shane MacGowan Leaves the Astral Plane

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Irish singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, a founding member of the punk-rock band the Pogues, died on Thursday, of pneumonia, at age sixty-five. It might sound as though he went…

Frederick Wiseman in Paradise

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Menu-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros,” Frederick Wiseman’s four-hour documentary about a great French restaurant, playing at Film Forum, there is a kitchen like none that I’ve ever seen: a large rectangular room with…

The Best Movies of 2023

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Though a year in movie releases is a small and arbitrary sample size, it’s nonetheless clear that, at the moment, the art of cinema is in good shape in the United…

The Enduring Strangeness of Nicolas Cage

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Dream Scenario,” the new A24 film from the writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, Nicolas Cage plays Paul Matthews, an underappreciated and ineffectual college professor who finds fame because of an odd metaphysical…