★★★☆☆ Betty Boop flies out of B&W cartoons into today’s living color, with glittery star quality but a saggy story
Broadway
The Last Five Years: Stuck on the Seesaw
★★★☆☆ Ineffective choices weigh down Jason Robert Brown’s charming chamber musical
The Last Five Years: A Romance Told Up and Down
★★★☆☆ A much-loved musical love story, featuring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, makes a stylish but uneven Broadway debut
Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney Makes Startling Broadway Bow
★★★★★ Clooney and Grant Heslov adapt their 2005 film to reflect not only the Joe McCarthy era but today
Good Night, and Good Luck: Movie-to-Stage-to-Video
★★★☆☆ George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in this stage adaptation of the 2005 film which he directed, co-wrote and appeared in.
Glengarry Glen Ross: Good Leads, but the Production Doesn’t Quite Close
★★★★☆ A star-studded cast performs in the latest revival of David Mamet’s testosterone-laden classic.
Glengarry Glen Ross: The Stars are Mostly Selling It
★★★★☆ Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr lead a starry revival of David Mamet’s best play.
The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Masterpiece from Page to Stage
★★★★★ Succession’s Sarah Snook is brilliant as everyone in a wild adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s prophetic novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Sarah Snook Slays with Multiple Selfies and Multimedia Screens
★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde’s tale is distilled as a succession of images reflecting a beauty with a beastly ego
Othello: For This Revival, the Stars Are the Thing
★★★☆☆ Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Kenny Leon’s Broadway production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.