The United States is changing, perhaps for the better, though not in politics. And they are less and less “European”, argues the American...

Our reviewer did his best. But even with an abundance of movies to choose from, this year’s offerings weren’t quite as good as he’d hoped...

Late-summer memories of magical swimming spots, past and present, in Yonkers and Port Washington, not to mention Singapore and Tokyo—plus...

New Croton Review: Spring 2024 A few minutes after I hook the pretty big fish, he explodes out of the water in a torrent of foam and...

European elegance—slightly ersatz—at a French establishment that was once a mainstay on Central Park South By George Blecher April 19,...

George Blecher 18 March 2024 Biden’s State of the Union speech seems to have proved that he could survive another four years in the White...

Spellbinding. Nothing short of phenomenal. So says our reviewer, George Blecher, of this 80-minute two-hander that starts out as a...

A rundown of six New York Film Festival films (two of them terrific; the rest—not so much), plus concerns about serious films in the age...

The night the music came alive at the Loew’s Sheridan Theatre, New York City By George Blecher The main event: Billie Holiday topping the...

by George Blecher A woman my father claimed was a famous hand-model lived down the street in a faux-Tudor house too big for one person. I...

A child of the boroughs ventures forth in midcentury Manhattan By George Blecher Photos by Angelo Rizzuto. Library of Congress, Prints &...

George Blecher February 16 2023 The faith in American unanimity that Joe Biden expressed in this year’s State of the Union speech sounded...

We start with four novels, telling tales—and tales within tales. Because…isn’t reality overrated? The Swedish writer Lina Wolff wears her...

George Blecher 14 November 2022 The red tide never surged but the re-election of numerous brazen careerists and hardline crazies is bad...

Tom Stoppard’s highly anticipated take on the tragedy of Austro-German Jews is only occasionally riveting By George Blecher 1899: Two...

Riffing on the sly and guileful beauty of roses By George Blecher The author, no doubt about to get thorn-scratched as he tends the...

The knives are out in this scathing review of the Sam Gold production starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga By George Blecher APRIL 28,...

Amidst bipartisan solidarity with Ukraine, Joe Biden’s State of the Union address focused on unity and reconciliation. But in reality,...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s rollicking, serious, endearing Licorice Pizza is well worth a trip to a movie theater. It’s an eccentric take on...

Super-professional acting, glossy production—but do they make a full theatrical meal? Is this play any more than an inflated biopic? By...