The 1968 play “The Boys in the Band” – both pioneering and polarizing for its simultaneously honest and stagy depiction of pre-Stonewall-era male homosexuality – gets a handsome, impeccably acted Netflix film adaptation by director Joe Mantello, based on Mantello’s own 50th-anniversary Broadway revival in 2018. As a film, “Boys” is no less bound by […]

Three years have passed since we last saw “Fargo,” creator Noah Hawley’s captivating FX anthology series that greatly expanded on the darkly comedic Coen brothers film, but it might as well be decades. A lot has happened to us lately, and to television as well, which means past seasons of “Fargo” feel more of a […]

In her exquisite 2016 documentary “Cameraperson,” director Kirsten Johnson explored footage she had amassed during her years as a sought-after cinematographer, assembling a powerful collage of images from around the globe as well as a touching memoir of her mother, who suffered with dementia. In “Dick Johnson is Dead,” Johnson turns the camera on her […]