John Anderson

Richard Linklater’s journey through ‘Boyhood’

There is nothing quite like a nun with a voice.This month, 50 years after Soeur Sourire, the Belgian singing sister, topped the charts with her pop hit “Dominique” (and received the dubious distinction two years later of being portrayed on screen by Debbie Reynolds), Sister Cristina Scuc

The film “Ida” is “less concerned with recounting the Holocaust than in absorbing its echoes.”

The biblical ambition of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’

“We’d like to applaud the filmmakers for raising reading levels, in an industry where dumbing-down is the business model.” Film critic John Anderson reviews ‘Divergent.’

Is it blasphemous to say that the problem with “Noah” is the story? That it may not be substantial enough to float a star-driven, effects-laden, $125-million movie? Or that director Darren Aronofsky’s attempt to hang flesh, blood, human logic and nautical mechanics on a tale that b

The most important news photographer of the 20th century was a Russian-Jewish immigrant clothing manufacturer from Dallas, Tex., who almost left his camera home on the day his life went crazy. Abraham Zapruder, whose half-minute film has fueled a half-century of conspiracy theories, recorded a presi

John Anderson reviews “American Hustle,” nominated for best picture in the weekend’s Academy Awards.