Michael LaRocco

The Substance  is a brilliant work of art that firmly belongs in the tradition of body horror as fine art. My mind is reeling—there’s so...

The Girl with the Needle  directed by Magnus von Horn is a haunting exploration of morality as a slippery slope, where cruelty...

Brutalism is not merely an architectural style, but a metaphor for the raw, unyielding forces that shape the immigrant experience in...

Ramell Ross's film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Nickel Boys  is a powerful and haunting exploration of the emotional and...

The Zone of Interest  lives and dies by what it refuses to show us. It is this powerful contrast—between what is visible and what is...

James Mangold's extraordinary A Complete Unknown  captures Bob Dylan as the enigma he truly was—part poet, part misfit, part vagabond,...

Man in Polyester Suit is a photograph by American artist and provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. The photograph is a black and white sepia...

Martha, the self-loathing heroine of Edward Albee’s searing 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the embodiment of the gay icon...

Realistic and codified performance in theater is often based on the premise that performances can be neatly categorized and structured....

My father abandoned my family when I was three days old. There were no visits, no summer vacations, no holidays. My father simply disappeare

The Patti Smith concert at the San Francisco Art Institute was a transformational experience, the stuff dreams are made of. I left...

The Nick Cave documentary  One More Time with Feeling  is a documentary done as an impressionistic painting. The movie is like a long,...