Latest by Jocelyn Noveck

Published on March 15, 2024 - Page 7
By the time Nicholas Winton died in 2015 at 106, the former London stockbroker and self-proclaimed "ordinary man" had been widely recognized for his...
Published on March 9, 2024 - Page 8
The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japan's Riken Yamamoto, who earns the field's highest honor for what organizers called a long...
Published on March 1, 2024 - Page 8
When Adam Sandler, as Czech astronaut Jakub in Johan Renck's "Spaceman," is asked if he's lonely, he answers in platitudes but his eyes betray the...
Published on February 23, 2024 - Page 7
At the end of "Ordinary Angels," we're given now-see-how-it-really-happened moments with real footage mirroring the climax of the film. That's a good...
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
For a piercing refresher lesson on democracy, one wouldn't necessarily think of rural Bhutan as the first place to look. For one thing, democratic...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
The first "Mean Girls" by Tina Fey came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it's 2024, and we have a screen adaptation of the...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
"The Teachers' Lounge" hosts an expanding web of uneasy power dynamics, mutual suspicion and misinformation, and that's just for starters. Writer-...
Published on December 23, 2023 - Page 9
Director George Clooney both begins and ends "The Boys in the Boat" on a sun-dappled lake. It aptly reflects the ethos of a film that often feels...
Published on December 23, 2023 - Page 9
It doesn't take long to understand the level of commitment Zac Efron brings to "The Iron Claw" as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich. It's also...
Published on December 17, 2023 - Page 16
Houston, we have a problem: Where's Kevin? Perhaps the ultimate coming-home movie, "Apollo 13," and the ultimate staying-home one, "Home Alone," are...