Browsing: Critic

Everyone over a certain age who’s obsessed with music — rock and rap, punk and funk, everything else from Afropop to Zydeco — has a favorite,…

Helen Shaw has been hired as chief theater critic at The New York Times.  Shaw joins the Times after working as a theater critic and staff…

The first reviews are in for Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl. The pop icon’s 12th album released at midnight on Friday is being hailed…

At age 89, Shiguéhiko Hasumi, the critic and theorist long regarded as Japan’s greatest living film scholar, is finally making what amounts to his U.S. debut.…