Latest by Jocelyn Noveck

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....
Published on August 29, 2025 - Page 6
In "The Thursday Murder Club," an amiable, cozy, pleasantly entertaining adaptation of Richard Osman's mystery novel, the lucky club members live in...
Published on August 8, 2025 - Page 7
It's a tale as old as time: Body-swapping. It's magical. It's comical. It carries heartwarming messages about walking in another's shoes, and...
Published on July 11, 2025 - Page 8
"Are we racists?" That's the blunt question posed by Bobo, a White girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified mother. It feels thoroughly...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 8
The problem with so many rom-coms is how often we're asked to conveniently dismiss our knowledge of life's realities. Particularly economic ones. How...