Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “ Nobody’s Perfect.”
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Anthony Lane reviews Agnieszka Holland’s dramatization of Ukraine’s deadly Holodomor famine, “Mr. Jones,” and Olivier Assayas’s “Wasp Network,” starring Penélope Cruz and Gael García Bernal.
The beguilements of the sleeper car have never seemed sharper than on the eve of a global lockdown, Anthony Lane writes.
Anthony Lane reviews Greta Gerwig’s new “Little Women,” starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen.
Anthony Lane reviews Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and slows the passage of time.
His films are illuminated by what he saw when France was ruled by oppression and ordinary people had to decide what, or whom, they would obey.
Stephen Frears’s “The Queen.”
“Shattered Glass” and “The Human Stain.”
Anthony Lane breaks down the actress’s appeal—she is more lovable than desirable, and, even when love is off the menu, she cannot not be liked.
Cruelty and compassion mingle in the short stories of a master.
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Anthony Lane on the photographer who awakened America to modernism.
Anthony Lane explores the history and future of Lego, visits a Lego lab in Billund Sweden—and visits with Norman Mailer, who has built a giant Lego city in his living room.