How to Read a Play

Fallen Angels

Far from Heaven, Safe, and Superstar

“Writer-director Todd Haynes makes you drunk on movies again. Talk about movie heaven–this is it. No film this year cuts a straighter path to…

Everybody Wins

Everybody Wins, with a provocative preface on the role of language in screenwriting is a richly atmospheric, masterfully plotted suspense story, but of course,…

Dogma

“Yes, Smith enjoys shock value, but this time he makes it mercilessly funny and places it in the context of an obviously devout, enlightened…

The Color of Money, Sea of Love, Night & the City

“Sea of Love confirms what some of us had begun to suspect . . . that the novelist Richard Price has become the best…