film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
It’s not interested in a world absent the incalculably enormous impact of the Beatles. It’s just a lazy comedy of one running joke, a regular schmoe enjoying unwarranted success, and a blah romance.
A brilliantly thrilling look back at the flowering of creativity and freethinking spirit of 1960s London, through the thoroughly charming perspective of Michael Caine.
This must-see music documentary introduces us to the extraordinary women you didn’t know were behind some of the songs you know by heart.
A Ronnie Wood guitar in the window of a boutique in Mayfair…
I can’t remember the last time a film rocked my world and blew my mind like this extraordinary documentary does.
Surprisingly, Historic Rockery isn’t the name of a new Rolling Stones tribute band…
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach looked at a sweet-and-sour children’s story through a peculiarly skewed eye and said, This can be so much more. And they turned it into something touching and funny, and magically absurd and at the same time pointedly real. They turned it into something genius.
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re still hung over from celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Taking Woodstock … more…
