Movies

Before reviewing 2023 movies and festivals, WBGO's film critic Harlan Jacobson looks back on 2022

Acclaimed DJ and producer DJ Spinna joins Angélika Beener to discuss Stevie Wonder's 90s classic, Jungle Fever.

In light of its two Academy Awards, for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score, Soul warrants revisiting. Here's what we had to say.

“Now you has jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz!”Bing Crosby warbles that exuberant line in a https://youtu.be/6RNlyTyDguI" target="_blank">showpiece number for…

The serious fun season of movies kicks off just after Labor Day with the Toronto International Film Festival that closes this weekend.Now in its 43rd…

WBGO film critic Harlan Jacobson gives high marks to Christopher Nolan's latest movie Dunkirk.

The first of many startling reveals in Naked Lunch, the 1991 David Cronenberg film, occurs five seconds into the opening title sequence. An orchestra has…

Thelonious Monk’s soundtrack to Les liaisons dangereuses, the provocative French film directed by Roger Vadim, will be released as a double album this…

What a work of man Sundance is, namely Robert Redford. It’s his legacy, after all, far more than the Way We Were or All the President’s Men or that…

Silence, by Martin Scorsese, is a good old fashioned art film about selflessness in a Facebook planet. The Jesuit mission to convert Japan to Christianity…