Richard Brody, Contributor

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Richard Brody

Richard Brody began writing for The New Yorker in 1999, and has contributed articles about the directors François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Samuel Fuller. Since 2005, he has been the movie-listings editor at the magazine; he writes film reviews, a column about DVDs, and a blog about movies. He is the author of the book “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard,” and is at work on a book on French New Wave Cinema.

Reading List: Richard Brody recommends Louis Menand’s “Browbeaten,” about Dwight Macdonald.

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5 days ago

Richard Brody

Amber Heard and the Artistic Problem with Contractual Nudity

For the producers of an ostensibly substantial movie to presume to sell it on the basis of Heard’s nudity is repellent, if not entirely surprising.

5 days ago

Richard Brody

Kenneth Lonergan’s Devastating, Liberating “Manchester by the Sea”

Lonergan transforms “Manchester by the Sea” into an exemplary emblem of his artistry, marking it with his own inner world.

6 days ago

Richard Brody

Warren Beatty’s Self-Sparing Embodiment of Howard Hughes

For all Warren Beatty’s bravura in incarnating Howard Hughes’s volatile moods and outsized energies, the actor hides rather than reveals himself.

1 week ago

Richard Brody

The Front Row: “The Hours and Times”

In this 1991 film, the director, Christopher Munch, constructs a cinematic petri dish to consider the worldwide cultural phenomenon sparked by the Beatles.

1 week ago

Richard Brody

The Return of Julie Dash’s Historic “Daughters of the Dust”

The vast yet intimate 1991 drama re-creates one strand of African-American history and tradition as a sort of deferred cinematic classical music.

1 week ago

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Site Lines

The foremost source for art-house DVDs and Blu-rays ditches Hulu for FilmStruck, a joint venture with TCM that features new streaming offerings.

2 weeks ago

Richard Brody

The Phony Sexual Transgressions of Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle”

“Elle” is no exploration of a woman’s psyche or life but a shoddy macho fantasy adorned with the trappings of liberation.

2 weeks ago

Richard Brody

The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog”

Essentially, Schrader films three Tarantino characters and strips them of their cool factor, leaving coldly indifferent criminals, and mediocre ones at that.

3 weeks ago

Richard Brody

What the Movies Miss About Trump’s America

Regressive, conservative leaders have inspired defiant creativity in American filmmaking before; we can only hope that Donald Trump has the same effect.

3 weeks ago

Richard Brody

Jeff Nichols’s “Loving”: An Airbrushed Portrait of the Interracial Couple Whose Struggle Changed History

Nichols’s film turns the Lovings into symbols rather than showing them as ordinary people forced into an extraordinary historical role that they didn’t seek.

4 weeks ago

Richard Brody

The Giddy Cosmic Spectacle of “Doctor Strange”

Though the plot of “Doctor Strange” is both flimsily ridiculous and grimly earnest, the director Scott Derrickson extracts digital wonders from it.

3 weeks ago

MOVIES

Winter Preview

Love, family, and work are the themes in “Rules Don’t Apply,” “La La Land,” “Jackie,” “Fences,” “Toni Erdmann,” and “Paterson.”

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