Richard Brody

New York

I am the movies editor for Goings On About Town and the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”

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Apocalypse No: “The Life of Chuck” Stumbles at the Finish Line

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Richard Brody

It’s impossible to discuss “The Life of Chuck” without revealing the ending, because that’s where the movie starts. It’s built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which it’s based. A title card declares the beginning of the film to be its Act Three, subtitled “Thanks Chuck,” an apocalyptic story centered on a schoolteacher, Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor).
Apocalypse No: “The Life of Chuck” Stumbles at the Finish Line

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Richard Brody

4 hours ago‘White Lotus’ Star Slams ‘Global Icon’ as ‘Worst Bully Ever’The actor allegedly “physically shoved” Isaacs.
Movie Club Newsletter

1 week ago | link.newyorker.com | Justin Chang |Richard Brody |Amanda Petrusich |Adam Gopnik

What our writers think about the new film, which stars Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal. Plus: a new documentary about video stores. View in browser | “Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up In Celine Song’s follow-up to “Past Lives,” Dakota Johnson plays a New York City matchmaker caught between a designer Mr. Right and an impoverished ex-boyfriend.
“Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Richard Brody

Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking pictures, most directors fail to depict talk as vigorously or imaginatively as they do physical action. The bulk of the work is usually left to the cast: the routine version of a movie involves pictures of actors acting, like audiovisual fragments of plays.
Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Richard Brody

With movie adaptations of books, the essential virtue is audacity, the readiness to transform the source material. That’s equally true of documentaries, as seen in “Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s teeming new film about video stores (which is playing June 10th-12th at the Tribeca Film Festival). “Videoheaven” is inspired by “Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store,” by Daniel Herbert, a professor of film and media at the University of Michigan.
The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now.”

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Richard Brody

The film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” is as jubilantly overstuffed as its subtitle. The book is a startlingly slow read—and I say that with unbridled enthusiasm.
“Ballerina” Leaps into John Wick’s Bloody World

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Richard Brody

It’s been instructive to see “Ballerina,” which opens this week, so soon after the new “Mission: Impossible” installment. In the latter, it’s hard to top Tom Cruise’s intrepid stunt work, which reaches its zenith in a pair of extended sequences (one in a submarine, the other on biplanes), but the story, involving a diabolical scheme using A.I. to commandeer and launch the world’s nuclear weaponry, is a mere pretext.
How The Bond Market Predicts Weakness In Our Economy?

3 weeks ago | medium.com | Richard Brody

For those paying close attention, especially to the traditional indicators of the upcoming economy, there is reason for some concern from the reports released on May 21, 2025. At best, it indicated a mixed economic outlook, but there were trends and factors, which lead on to be less-than-optimistic! Although unemployment remained somewhat-steady, and labor participation edging slightly up, there were many signs of weakening in both consumer and business outlook.
Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film?

4 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Richard Brody

Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy industrialist’s attempts to realize a grandiose infrastructure project. Anderson’s signature is instantly recognizable in the movie’s decorative production design, its frontal and symmetrical framings, and its antic, densely plotted story—and equally in the fact that it is a violent and death-haunted action film, filled with fights and chases.
“Love Letters,” Received Forty Years Too Late

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Richard Brody

The vast spectrum of streaming platforms is like so many libraries: countless treasures line the shelves but little attention is paid to them. One of the virtues of the Criterion Channel, however, is that its track record of presenting canonical classics and recent masterworks lends instant prominence to its new additions.

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11 Jun 25

Looking ahead to Andrew Bujalski's 2015 film Results at @Metrograph mumblefest Sunday (+Q. & A. w/him & Kevin Corrigan moderated by @judysquirrels), two words from back then on the movie's immediate pleasures and enduring importance https://t.co/7tnKQLmmck https://t.co/ICVWfhPSO7

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10 Jun 25

Grigris is really good—a classical drama of daily lives that reveals hidden vectors of power and history: https://t.co/eMlLVOX54M

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Our Film Comment Live event with Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) is tomorrow night! Come for a screening of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller GRIGRIS; stay for a panel with Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye about the cinema of the climate crisis. 🎟️: https://t.co/dwAJ9vJBIx

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10 Jun 25

RT @FilmComment: Our Film Comment Live event with Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) is tomorrow night! Come for a screening of Mahamat-Sale…