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Shonni Enelow

Toil and Trouble

By Shonni Enelow
May 17, 2021
To thine own self be true: Nomadland's glib use of Shakespeare belies its realist pretensions, our critic argues

Feel the Love

By Shonni Enelow
July 1, 2019
Thirty years after Do the Right Thing, the revolutionary acting legacy of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee still yields lessons to learn beyond realism

The Big Screen: Peterloo

By Shonni Enelow
April 3, 2019
Speaking of freedom: Mike Leigh’s new film, opening April 5, is theatrical in the most classical and least pejorative sense

Stronger Together

By Shonni Enelow
September 1, 2017
Bygone days: Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 Between the Lines opens in revival on February 22 at Quad Cinema in New York

Interview: Alison Maclean and Kerry Fox

By Shonni Enelow
July 3, 2017
The excruciatingness of it all: the director and a star of The Rehearsal tease out the pleasures and risks of stagecraft and watching it all unfold

The Great Recession

By Shonni Enelow
September 6, 2016
Restrained but resilient, a style of acting has taken hold that speaks to an era’s anxieties