Scheck on the Arts

Freestyle Love Supreme, the improvisational hip-hop troupe co-founded by Lin-Manuel Miranda, brings their linguistic wizardry to Broadway for a limited run, with guest spots from numerous Hamilton alums. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Several strangers become trapped in a vast field of grass with supernatural properties in In the Tall Grass, Vincenzo Natali's film version of the novella by Stephen King and Joe Hill. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Ivy Meeropol's documentary Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn chronicles the life and career of the notorious lawyer who helped send her grandparents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Olivier Meyrou's long-shelved documentary Celebration presents a fly-on-the-wall portrait of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his business partner and former lover Pierre Berge. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

An elderly Jewish couple experiences a series of comic adventures in The Gliksmans, a raucous comedy featuring cameos by Ed Asner and Cloris Leachman. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

The last few days have made for off-the-rails television coverage of the impeachment developments. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

President Trump seemed profoundly low-energy during his petulant press conference defending his phone conversation with the president of Ukraine. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

A troubled youth finds himself fighting for survival on a remote jungle island in Franck Khalfoun's horror thriller Prey. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck