Movie Review | '12 Years a Slave'
The Blood and Tears, Not the Magnolias
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” based on the true story of Solomon Northup, drives straight to the heart of the cruelties of oppression.
Mayor Bloomberg speaks “fluent Wall Street,” which benefited the city, but his successor will need to address other demands.
The next mayor needs to consider a wide range of design and development issues to assure New York’s competitive future.
Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” based on the true story of Solomon Northup, drives straight to the heart of the cruelties of oppression.
To lure moviegoers, AMC Theaters have installed cushy red recliners to mimic the home-viewing experience.
In “Trading With the Enemy,” part of an exhibition at Magnan Metz Gallery, Duke Riley’s pigeons tempt fate and legal barriers as they fly from Cuba bearing cigars and cameras.
Producers of the Disney movie “Saving Mr. Banks,” about the filming of “Mary Poppins,” say the studio did not pressure them to sanitize the portrayal of Walt Disney.
In “Ninety Percent of Everything,” the British writer Rose George catches a ride on a giant container ship.
The artist William Kentridge is hard at work on an opera, Berg’s “Lulu,” designing in miniature for a 2015 opening.
Nico Muhly’s new work is opening at the Metropolitan Opera after a run in London to work out the kinks.
Reviews, reports, photos, an evolving playlist and more from the CMJ Music Marathon in New York.
October 17, 2013
October 17, 2013
Five finalists were named in each category — fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature and poetry — and the winners will be announced Nov. 20.
“Stars Are Our Home” is the debut by Black Hearted Brother, composed of members of Slowdive, Mojave 3 and Seefeel. “Labor” is the second album by the dance-pop band JD Samson & MEN.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be showing William Kentridge’s video “The Refusal of Time” starting on Tuesday.
Items and papers that once belonged to the composer Sergei Prokofiev, mostly from 1918 to 1938, will be more accessible to scholars.
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company includes a premiere, “Crazy 8’s,” in its second program at the Joyce Theater in its 45th anniversary season.
The Classic Stage Company’s production of “Romeo & Juliet” is Tea Alagic’s interpretation of the Shakespeare classic, featuring a sumptuous and seething Lady Capulet.
Nine Inch Nails, with Trent Reznor as its frontman and creative force, brought its “Tension” tour (the band’s first since 2009) to Barclays Center.
Denis Matsuev, piano soloist performing with the Mariinsky Orchestra, drew a demonstrative audience at Carnegie Hall.
“Reign,” making its debut Thursday on CW, focuses on the tumultuous teenage years of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Ms. Powell was the director of the label’s in-house finishing school in the 1960s and was considered in no small part responsible for its early success.
Some in the audience were troubled by the larger questions the film raises about romantic love and our overdependence on technology.
The release of the Ubisoft game Watch Dogs, expected to be a blockbuster on the order of Grand Theft Auto, has been delayed until June 2014.
Mr. Farrow, son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, will take over an hour of the cable channel’s weekday schedule starting early next year.
Mr. Irons, who plays a king on TV, can claim a regal bloodline of his own as a son of Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack.
The subscription music service is expanding to six Latin American countries through a bundling deal with Telefónica.
The frontman has his own knitwear collection. Naturally, there is a common thread between his songs and clothes.
The computers Jack and WBridge5 competed for a title last month.
Eleanor Catton’s “Luminaries,” the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize, is a mystery set against a gold rush in 19th-century New Zealand.
The actor and playwright performs a scene from “100 (Monologues),” a collection built from his popular one-man shows from the 1980s and ’90s.
A country is thrown into chaos when its leaders descend into conflict in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Does this sound slightly familiar?
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At the world championships in Bali, Indonesia, last month, there was a fifth title decided: the 17th World Computer Championship.
Irina Krush, Mackenzie Molner and Justin Sarkar have all broken through to the next level in their careers.
In his new movie, "Walesa: Man of Hope," the director Andrzej Wajda tackles the epic story of Lech Walesa's fight for Poland's freedom.
The two years the artist spent in the French capital transformed his work from the somber hues of his early paintings to his better-known colorful flowers and portraits.
Chinese artists are using the Web as a grand canvas to create new landscapes, and even a language.
To demonstrate erasure in her work, the Mumbai-based artist Neha Choksi has lost consciousness, fallen silent for 10 days and submerged herself in a lake.
When Edward and Sonia Balassanian set out to establish a contemporary and experimental art center in Armenia, they expected - and encountered - resistance.
The Finnish artist Pilvi Takala turned over a £10,000 prize to a group of children. Their task: deciding how it should be spent.
Arts centers are encouraging new talent in a country still wrestling with its violent past.
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