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Molly Haskell
The Turn of the Screw
By
Molly Haskell
May 2, 2022
Fading light: Gaspar Noé's latest provocation,
Vortex
, is an unflinching, exhilarating look the ravages of decline and death
Of Gods and Men
By
Molly Haskell
October 12, 2021
Saddle sore: Jane Campion’s latest is lacking in the richly personal, idiosyncratic feminism of her great early films
Seeing Double:
Bad Timing
&
Winter Light
By
Molly Haskell
June 14, 2021
Through a glass darkly: the critic finds strange exhilaration in a particularly daunting pair of movies
Moviegoing Then and Now
By
Molly Haskell
May 10, 2021
Out of the past: the critic reflects on moviegoing across the years and her enchantment with spectacle both big and small
Declaration of Independence
By
Molly Haskell
May 8, 2020
Paul Mazursky’s
An Unmarried Woman
is the wry, graceful culmination of certain genre of 1970s cinema
The Big Screen: The Traitor
By
Molly Haskell
January 28, 2020
Marco Bellocchio’s Sicilian saga unfolds under the looming shadow of mortality, of time running out for aging kingpins, and of debts coming due
Our Fair Lady: Audrey Hepburn
By
Molly Haskell
April 2, 2019
A personal appreciation of the great actress, FSLC’s 1991 Chaplin Award Gala honoree
The Big Screen: Gloria Bell
By
Molly Haskell
March 7, 2019
Julianne Moore's Gloria is an emblem of a single woman triumphantly navigating middle age
Review: The Favourite
By
Molly Haskell
November 19, 2018
(Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/USA, Fox Searchlight, Opening November 23)
Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
By
Molly Haskell
July 2, 2018
(Gus Van Sant, USA, Amazon Studios, Opening July 13)
I’ve Seen You Somewhere Before: Soulmates in Ophuls’s Letter from an Unknown Woman
By
Molly Haskell
December 13, 2017
The marrying kind: what love means in this sumptuous adaptation of a Stefan Zweig novel
Review: Call Me by Your Name
By
Molly Haskell
November 15, 2017
(Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France, Sony Pictures Classics, Opening November 24)
A Man Apart
By
Molly Haskell
May 3, 2017
Beyond tough, Robert De Niro creates characters whose strange integrity fascinates and frightens us
In Memoriam: Richard Corliss
By
Molly Haskell
May 6, 2015
A short remembrance by a friend and colleague
Howard Hawks: Masculine Feminine
By
Molly Haskell
March 4, 2015
Hawks’ view of a world precariously divided between the male and female principles
Review: Cake
By
Molly Haskell
January 20, 2015
Jennifer Aniston's turn as a cheerless, scarred woman pushes expectations of both her career and female performances
Review: Still Alice
By
Molly Haskell
October 1, 2014
(Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, U.S., 2014)
Finding Herself
By
Molly Haskell
May 27, 2011
The everlasting prime of an acting powerhouse who gracefully eludes definition yet is every inch a star