In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. I too felt Dana’s “haze of generalized goodwill” that weekend, especially because, as she notes, I was completely wowed by Oppenheimer, which is an easy movie with which to get obsessed. At the moment, this …
Joe Wright is at his best when he’s making movies about love. “ Cyrano ” is one of his finer efforts among a flock of high achievers including “Atonement” and “Pride & Prejudice.” And this lush adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s classic play “Cyrano de Bergerac” feels like it was made by people who are IN love, which could be at …
How teen movies became hooked on classic literature Alamy Ten years ago, the release of Easy A marked the end of a Hollywood trend – for adapting old books and plays into high school movies. High school is a time of life when we are feeling alive with possibilities, excitement, terror, anxiety, romance, drama, dreams, goals – all the stuff …
