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Browse our essays and reviews on visual art, photography, and architecture.

Imagining Faith

If Greenaway correctly diagnosed the aesthetic crisis of modern film, The Tree of Life is the remedy.

Alan A. Stone

Bin Laden: The Movie

The director of The Hurt Locker takes on the 9/11 mastermind.
Alan A. Stone

Like a Dog

Serge Avedikian’s Barking Island.

Colin Dayan

Square Dance

In the 1930s and ’40s, American dance was about working men and women, not dying swans.

Megan Pugh

Hello, Columbus

Even the Rain (También la lluvia) Directed by Icíar Bollaín.
Alan A. Stone

Drowned Out

Julie Taymor’s The Tempest.
Alan A. Stone

All Of Humanity

King Lear on the big screen.
Alan A. Stone

The Rebel

Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love.
Alan A. Stone

Curtain Call

Alan Stone reviews Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere.

Alan A. Stone

Kingpin

On Jacques Audiard's A Prophet.

Alan A. Stone

Sins of the Father

Alan Stone reviews Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon.

Alan A. Stone

The Jewish Question

Alan Stone reviews the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.

Alan A. Stone

Purple Gaze

In the City of Sylvia

Alan A. Stone

Revelation

Readers of Barbara Guest should receive the publication of her Collected Poems with joy and relief.
Brian Teare

Making Monsters

In the Valley of Elah, directed by Paul Haggis.

Alan A. Stone

Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas.
Paul Hockenos

Lastingness

How growing old shapes aesthetic vision.
Nicholas Delbanco

Unbeatable Odds

On Rescue Dawn, directed by Werner Herzog.

Alan A. Stone

A Care in the World

Away From Her directed by Sarah Polley.
Alan A. Stone

Metamorphosis

Rosamond Purcell's Natural History.
John Crowley

Living Together

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.
Alan A. Stone

Any Human Heart

A review of Alejandro Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel.

Alan A. Stone

Good Will

Stranger than Fiction is an unexpectedly delightful film that brings whimsy and grown-up humor back to the movies.

Alan A. Stone

Enduring Love

André Téchiné's Changing Times.

Alan A. Stone

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