Anthony Lane
Anthony Lane is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “ Nobody’s Perfect.”
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the current cinema ·
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.
letter from europe ·
The beguilements of the sleeper car have never seemed sharper than on the eve of a global lockdown, Anthony Lane writes.
the current cinema ·
Anthony Lane reviews Greta Gerwig’s new “Little Women,” starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen.
the current cinema ·
Anthony Lane reviews Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and slows the passage of time.
a critic at large ·
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.
the current cinema ·
Stephen Frears’s “The Queen.”
the current cinema ·
“Shattered Glass” and “The Human Stain.”
a critic at large ·
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.
a critic at large ·
Cruelty and compassion mingle in the short stories of a master.
books ·
Anthony Lane on the photographer who awakened America to modernism.
our far flung correspondents ·
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.