Plus, a review of "West Side Story."
It's been another roller-coaster year for the movies. It was one in which many film lovers returned to theaters, even as streaming options built more momentum. Our co-chief film critics, A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis, looked back on the year that was and shared their thoughts on its finest offerings (with Dargis arguing that the best film was any film playing in a theater.) |
One movie that made Scott's list was "West Side Story," Steven Spielberg's take on the Broadway musical classic that last had a big-screen adaptation in 1961. While Scott writes that the film "can't be called flawless," he praises it as "a dazzling display of filmmaking craft that also feels raw, unsettled and alive." |
Also out this week is Aaron Sorkin's biopic on Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, "Being the Ricardos," starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem. In her review, Manohla Dargis calls the film "lively, chatty, somewhat odd and insistently depoliticized." |
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