Latest by Jocelyn Noveck

Published on November 28, 2025 - Page 8
"Tell me a story," the earthy young woman asks the shy Latin tutor early in Chloe Zhao's "Hamnet." This awkward young man seems to have a way with...
Published on November 24, 2025 - Page 7
It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say an actor's persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor. But then, this is Brendan Fraser. It is his...
Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 7
"Welcome to the delicious hell that is high society," beckons the trailer for "The Seduction," HBO Max's steamy new French-language drama inspired by...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 9
"Christy," directed by David Mich?d, begins as a solid sports biopic, the based-on-true-events story of boxer Christy Martin (played by Sydney...
Published on October 24, 2025 - Page 19
Colleen Hoover's "Regretting You," a tragicomic intergenerational romance adapted by Susan McMartin, has its share of grief. But the strange way the...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 14
Not far into Kelly Reichardt's "The Mastermind," the title's irony becomes painfully clear. Because J.B. Mooney, the mediocre art thief played by...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
One senses Linda, the overburdened mom embodied by Rose Byrne in Mary Bronstein's "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," is nobody's priority. She's certainly...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
It is often said our greatest actors could compellingly recite the phone book. There's no doubt Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest living actors...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 11
Change comes slowly to the Downton Abbey universe and its Crawley family. Just watch Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) go flat-hunting in London. It's...
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 11
James Sweeney never had a twin, though he wanted one. The filmmaker dreamed of a having a twin that would serve as a kind of built-in best friend....