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Molly Haskell

Premortem and Postmortem

By Molly Haskell
October 21, 2024
Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood

Mirror, Mirror

By Molly Haskell
September 29, 2023
Imitation of life: Todd Haynes’s latest, which opens this year's NYFF, rips a tale from the tabloid headlines and turns it into a modern melodrama of desire, deception, and delusion

Little White Lies

By Molly Haskell
June 12, 2023
Truth content: the latest from Nicole Holofcener, You Hurt My Feelings, expands on the director’s women-centric inquiries into marriage and its complicated demands of candor and companionship

The Turn of the Screw

By Molly Haskell
May 2, 2022
Fading light: Gaspar Noé's latest provocation, Vortex, is an unflinching, exhilarating look the ravages of decline and death

Of Gods and Men

By Molly Haskell
October 12, 2021
Saddle sore: Jane Campion’s latest is lacking in the richly personal, idiosyncratic feminism of her great early films

Seeing Double: Bad Timing & Winter Light

By Molly Haskell
June 14, 2021
Through a glass darkly: the critic finds strange exhilaration in a particularly daunting pair of movies

Moviegoing Then and Now

By Molly Haskell
May 10, 2021
Out of the past: the critic reflects on moviegoing across the years and her enchantment with spectacle both big and small

Declaration of Independence

By Molly Haskell
May 8, 2020
Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman is the wry, graceful culmination of certain genre of 1970s cinema

The Big Screen: The Traitor

By Molly Haskell
January 28, 2020
Marco Bellocchio’s Sicilian saga unfolds under the looming shadow of mortality, of time running out for aging kingpins, and of debts coming due

Our Fair Lady: Audrey Hepburn

By Molly Haskell
April 2, 2019
A personal appreciation of the great actress, FSLC’s 1991 Chaplin Award Gala honoree

The Big Screen: Gloria Bell

By Molly Haskell
March 7, 2019
Julianne Moore's Gloria is an emblem of a single woman triumphantly navigating middle age

Review: The Favourite

By Molly Haskell
November 19, 2018
(Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/USA, Fox Searchlight, Opening November 23)

Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

By Molly Haskell
July 2, 2018
(Gus Van Sant, USA, Amazon Studios, Opening July 13)

I’ve Seen You Somewhere Before: Soulmates in Ophuls’s Letter from an Unknown Woman

By Molly Haskell
December 13, 2017
The marrying kind: what love means in this sumptuous adaptation of a Stefan Zweig novel

Review: Call Me by Your Name

By Molly Haskell
November 15, 2017
(Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France, Sony Pictures Classics, Opening November 24)

A Man Apart

By Molly Haskell
May 3, 2017
Beyond tough, Robert De Niro creates characters whose strange integrity fascinates and frightens us

In Memoriam: Richard Corliss

By Molly Haskell
May 6, 2015
A short remembrance by a friend and colleague

Howard Hawks: Masculine Feminine

By Molly Haskell
March 4, 2015
Hawks’ view of a world precariously divided between the male and female principles

Review: Cake

By Molly Haskell
January 20, 2015
Jennifer Aniston's turn as a cheerless, scarred woman pushes expectations of both her career and female performances

Review: Still Alice

By Molly Haskell
October 1, 2014
(Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland, U.S., 2014)