Voices

John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
Arts & CultureFilm
“Saint Maud” is the latest entrant in the religious-obsessives-are-the-craziest-people movie catalogue.
Arts & CultureFilm
Have we seen the end of motion pictures as we knew them?
Arts & CultureFilm
The last movie in his “Godfather” trilogy was critically eviscerated when it debuted, and “The Godfather: Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone” seems a last-ditch effort to redeem the film.
Arts & CultureFilm
There is no way not to see “Mank” as a tale of self-destruction and professional suicide.
Arts & CultureFilm
That “Chicago 7” is turning up on Netflix at this precise moment is no accident, the moment being serious.
Arts & CultureFilm
“The Devil All the Time” is a story of fathers and sons, serial killers, religious frauds and fundamentalist lunatics.
Arts & CultureFilm
“Copperfield” on the page or on the screen is a moral fable, the story of a boy growing into a moral man
Arts & CultureFilm
‘Fatima,’ gives both the innocent faithful and the innocently faithless their due.
Arts & CultureFilm
“Flannery” is an apologia for O’Connor but, like any good defense, it takes the position that she doesn’t need one.
Arts & CultureBooks
Mantel’s portrait of More is of a self-serving whiner with a death wish. But what must always be remembered is that she is creating fiction.