Scheck on the Arts

Mlima's Tale, the latest drama from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Sweat), is told from the perspective of an African elephant killed by poachers for its tusks. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----------Frank Scheck

Ben Kingsley plays a war criminal who forms a close bond with his young maid in Brad Silberling's thriller An Ordinary Man. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Serena Dykman's documentary Nana profiles her grandmother, Maryla Michalowski-Dyamant, a Holocaust survivor who served as Josef Mengele's personal translator. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Nick Robinson and Rosario Dawson star in Krystal, William H. Macy romantic comedy about an 18-year-old who falls in love with an older woman. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his long-awaited appearance before a congressional committee yesterday. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Daphne Rubin-Vega plays an undocumented immigrant driving cross-country with her 16-year-old daughter in Miss You Like Hell, a musical written by Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegrai Hudes and singer/songwriter Erin McKeown. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Rudiger Suchsland's cinematic essay Hitler's Hollywood examines films produced during Nazi-era Germany. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Harry Connick, Jr. headlines The Sting, the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of the hit 1973 film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the show receiving its world premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, click here.

A 13-year-old girl struggles to recover from the emotional effects of a school shooting in This Flat Earth, a timely new drama by Lindsey Ferrentino, author of Ugly Lies the Bone and Amy and the Orphans. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The incisive Frontline documentary Trump's Takeover recounts the story of Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

------------Frank Scheck