Sheila O'Malley

June 29, 2018

The right sort: Rhode Island airs are front and center in the 1956 musical adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, but how does the cast measure up?

May 1, 2018

Mary Ellen Bute’s Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake listens to the stream-of-consciousness song of a synesthetic masterwork

February 19, 2018

It felt like a kiss: on Doris Day and James Cagney’s under-seen film about abusive showbiz romance

January 3, 2018

With elegant force, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread curls round an ineffable, unstable romantic attention without which life is unlivable

November 13, 2017

(Greta Gerwig, USA, A24, Opening November 3)

August 14, 2017

The wonder of you: the king of rock ‘n’ roll knew that his talent lay in being himself, shining even in formulaic vehicles

May 3, 2017

(Rama  Burshtein, Israel, Roadside Attractions, Opens May 12)

April 3, 2017

Burning bright: the Method legend blow-torched her place in acting history through just a handful of performances

January 5, 2017

Salt of the earth: Robert Duvall gives his favorite performance in a plainspoken 1972 adaptation by Horton Foote

December 16, 2016

At a tender age: two very different 1970s films show females on the verge of a nervous breakdown

October 3, 2016

Class act: equally adept at comedy and drama, the '30s star never failed to reach the back of the house