Texas Executing Inmates at Near-Record Pace

Aug. 7 execution date set for inmate who claims mental retardation

"...Continuing a pace of executions that, if it holds, would nearly tie..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lee Renaming Brings Out Butter-Knife-Sharp Wit

Don’t ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to

"...may be regretting soliciting proposals to rename Robert E. Lee Ele­men­tary, after the most nominated name turned out to..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lee Leffingwell: 'Think Long-Range'

The incumbent mayor defends his record

"...Lee Leffingwell: Well, I think first and foremost has to..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Infamous

It's another Truman Capote picture about how the author wrote In Cold Blood – and it stands solidly on its own merits.

"...Juliet Stevenson, Hope Davis, Isabella Rossellini, John Benjamin Hickey, Lee Pace and Gwyneth Paltrow. Comparisons are inevitable, although they're..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

Although Tsai Ming-Liang's I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone is nearly wordless and slow moving, the film’s characters are compelling and its pace hypnotic. (AFS@Dobie)

"...Ming-Liang. Starring: Norman Atun, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Pearlly Chua and Lee Kang-Sheng. For his most recent feature, director Tsai returns..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Burning

Extraordinary Korean drama adds emotion to the thriller equation

"...Directed by: Lee Chang-dong. Starring: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun and Jeon Jong-seo...."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Chunhyang

"...Kwon Taek. Starring: Hong Kyung Yeun, Choi Jin Young, Lee Hae Eun, Kim Hak Yong, Lee Jung Hun, Kim..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2 Days in the Valley

"...unrelated San Fernando Valley residents to collide. Hit men Lee Woods (Spader) and Dosmo Pizzo (Aiello) murder the husband..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Satin Steel

"...Directed by: Clifton Ko. Starring: Jade Leung, Anita Lee and Russell Wong. Kung-fu jungle cannibals, gun-running ventriloquist gangsters,..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Cat

"...Directed by: Jon Lung. Starring: Waise Lee. Not since Jackie Chan's outlandish escapades in City Hunter..."

Oct. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

On the Ropes

"...the Bed-Stuy projects as well as any of Spike Lee's characters, and like that director's onetime alter-ego Mookie, he..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Black Mask

"...Directed by: Daniel Lee. Starring: Françoise Yip, Karen Mok, Lau Ching Wan and..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fugitive

Flinty Tommy Lee Jones is the best thing about this otherwise standard chase film.

"...Directed by: Andrew Davis. Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward and Joe Pantoliano. One of the..."

Aug. 6, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Captain Marvel

Brie Larson confidently lays the next cornerstone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

"...Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg and Lashana Lynch...."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book

"...Directed by: Stephen Sommers. Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill and John Cleese...."

Dec. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

A Mutual Respect

Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.

"...I wish I had known Russell Lee in the Sixties, when he taught photography at the..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

The Fall

Astonishing and hyperstylized images mark Tarsem's stunning but mournful movie, which is also layered with fairy-tale subtext and thickets of moral and motivational ambiguity.

"...Directed by: Tarsem Singh. Starring: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell and Julian Bleach. I..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...with the world premiere of Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater's Austin-produced and -animated story of..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

My NYTVF Notebook

"...scuttling between screens in the New World Stages theatre space on West 50th Street during the five-day festival...."

Sept. 14, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Friday night is a terrible night to launch a new series

"...closeted lesbian lawyer, and her theology student brother Aaron (Lee Pace). Tyron Leitso stars as Eric, a bartender and..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

First Reformed

Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke burn in the divine for this meditation on faith.

"...Philip Ettinger, Michael Gaston, Van Hansis, Michael Metta, Gary Lee Mahmoud and Frank Murray...."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bounce Back

Charming film pits two love gurus against each other

"...Shemar Moore, Nadine Velazquez, Bill Bellamy, Nadja Alaya, Robinne Lee, Denise Boutte, Kali Hawk and Michael Beach...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hugo

Martin Scorsese steps outside his comfort zone to create an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one of his most splendid and personal films.

"...Cohen, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helen McCrory, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Ray Winstone, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jude Law and Richard Griffiths...."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.

"...Bharat Nalluri. Starring: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Shirley Henderson, Lee Pace, Mark Strong and Ciarán Hinds. The Blitz was..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

George Washington

Green's debut feature is a sublime tone poem about adolescence

"...Gordon Green. Starring: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damien Jewan Lee, Paul Schneider, Eddie Rouse, Curtis Cotton III, Rachael Handy..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seven

A serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi is hunted by two New York City detectives in this hellish take on Nineties film noir.

"...Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Richard Roundtree, R. Lee Ermey and John C. McGinley. Director Fincher, whose last..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As the Guardians of the Galaxy gather once more, every MCU film reviewed

"...What happens? Mostly that Marvel retconned Ang Lee's CGI misfire, and gave us what we want most:..."

May 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lincoln

Despite a monumental performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, Spielberg's film has a fussed-over theatricality that's hard to escape.

"...Spielberg. Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Straithairn, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes,..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

You’re Probably Not Watching AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’

Here are five reasons why you should

"...probably a little played out, it’s executed well here. Lee Pace’s Joe MacMillan is flawed in ways that are..."

July 9, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The concluding chapter of Peter Jackson's Tolkien tales brings us full circle.

"...Lilly, Aidan Turner, Billy Connolly, Ryan Gage, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee and Manu Bennett...."

Dec. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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