Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. Before coming to the magazine, he worked at the Independent, in London, where he was appointed deputy literary editor in 1989 and, a year later, a film critic for the Independent on Sunday. In 2001, his reviews received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. His writings for The New Yorker are collected in the book “Nobody’s Perfect.”
“The President Is Missing” contains most of what you’d expect from this duo: politico-historical ramblings, mixed metaphors, saving the world. But why is there no sex?
The latest installment of the Lucasfilm franchise, starring Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover; and John Cameron Mitchell’s adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story.
Paul Schrader’s dark drama starring Ethan Hawke as a troubled pastor drawn to the ecoterrorist cause, and Michael Mayer’s Chekhov adaptation, starring Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan.
Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s film is the product of a time in which parenting has become a secular faith, complete with devotees and a range of denominations.
Lucas Belvaux’s drama about the far-right resurgence in provincial France and a restored print of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s wartime classic about a town torn apart by mistrust.
