Movies
In his take on Arthur Schnitzler’s well-trodden play “Reigen,” writer-director Peter Mattei traces a connection through a miscellany of New Yorkers, beginning with a prostitute (Vera Farmiga) who services a contractor (Domenick Lombardozzi) on a waterfront as barren as the characters’ interior landscapes.
Nov. 1, 2002
Early on in the mob tale “The Wannabe,” set in the early 1990s, a jitteriness emerges about the inevitable collision course between fantasy and reality, and it creates genuine suspense.
Dec. 3, 2015
Entertainment & Arts
Television review: ‘Breakout Kings’
March 4, 2011
Director and co-writer Grant Singer has a real star in Benicio Del Toro and good taste in 1970s paranoid thrillers, but little in the way of a signature of his own.
Sept. 29, 2023
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June 29, 2010
Feb. 25, 2010
If Tony Vitale’s “Kiss Me, Guido” isn’t quite the laff riot its trailer suggests, it nonetheless abounds in good-hearted humor, adding up to a perfectly pleasant summer diversion.
July 18, 1997
“Just One Time” begins as blithely as countless other New York romantic comedies but takes a turn that gives it another dimension--and also lots of laughs.
March 23, 2001
Jan. 7, 2011
Television
A high-stakes poker game convinces Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) that New York mobster Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg) and a Florida land deal don’t mix in Episode 40 (“All In”) of “Boardwalk Empire,” recently renewed by HBO for a fifth season.
Sept. 30, 2013