Intensifying efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to end 67 years of communist rule in Cuba are drawing fierce criticism from many congressional Democrats. But not all. Since Fidel Castro seized power in the 1959 Cuban revolution, the country has been a preeminent cause célèbre for the global Left. In this view, the island nation […]

Watching the credits roll on Apple TV’s gonzo alternate-reality comedy Brothers, I looked hard for the name of Charlie Kaufman. Surely the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and other surrealist classics was involved in Apple’s unhinged send-up of family, politics, and the contemporary celebrity experience.  After all, Kaufman’s screenwriting debut, […]

It would be a stretch to say that the release of a Ben Affleck movie ever qualified as an event. Even in the late 1990s and the early 2000s — the post-Good Will Hunting window during which he was most plausibly anointed for stardom — Affleck tended to be recklessly productive in a way that […]

Eva Marie Saint, who died on Oct. 6 at age 102, lived a life that seemed exceptional in the moment and would certainly be impossible today. First, the impossible part: Saint was, legitimately, one of the last movie stars to have played a meaningful part in the Golden Age and to have worked alongside some […]