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  3. “Tár,” Reviewed: Regressive Ideas to Match Regressive Aesthetics

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  4. Tar (2022)

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  5. 'Tár' MOVIE REVIEW: Cate Blanchett is Spectacular in Atmospheric

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  6. TÁR Review: Cate Blanchett Conducts an Acting Master Class

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  1. "Tár," Reviewed: Regressive Ideas to Match ...

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  2. 'Tár' Review: A Maestro Faces the Music

    Like "Late Night," the 2019 movie which cast Emma Thompson as a powerful network television talk-show host, "Tár" doesn't so much smash a glass ceiling as dissolve it by creative fiat ...

  3. TÁR movie review & film summary (2022)

    TÁR. Throughout the new film written and directed by Todd Field, its title character, a person of exceptionally sensitive hearing and possibly perfect pitch, is almost constantly distracted from her vital activities by extraneous noise. The noises include a doorbell, or something like a doorbell, dinging—our title character, Lydia Tár ...

  4. 'Tár' review: Cate Blanchett stars a manipulative classical ...

    The movie begins in Manhattan, with Lydia in a lengthy onstage conversation with the New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik. This scene and others are a feast for classical music buffs: We learn about all ...

  5. The Elusive Power of Cate Blanchett

    Published Oct. 11, 2022 Updated Oct. 14, 2022. Cate Blanchett is accustomed to looking the camera dead on. Hers is the kind of face that inspires directors to tight framing — gleaming, as if ...

  6. Cate Blanchett Gives a Dazzling Performance in Tár

    The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik, playing himself, introduces her to the audience by reciting a seemingly endless list of her accomplishments: She's the first woman to have been appointed ...

  7. 'Tár' Review: Cate Blanchett in Todd Field's Masterful ...

    Critics Pick. 'Tár' Review: Cate Blanchett Acts With Ferocious Force in Todd Field's Masterful Drama. The actor creates a study in power, passion, and entitlement in a movie so real it's ...

  8. 'Tár': Cate Blanchett's Staggering Work of Complicated Genius

    Fields is not in it for the easy schadenfreude, either way. Nor is Blanchett, who, more than anything else at play, is the essence of what makes Tár work. It's a masterful, full-bodied ...

  9. One Indelible Scene: The Master Class in Ambiguity in 'Tár'

    By A.O. Scott. Published Jan. 2, 2023 Updated Jan. 3, 2023. When Lydia Tár arrives at the Juilliard School to teach a master class in conducting, we know her about as well as the students do ...

  10. Tár

    The opening scene is an onstage interview conducted by (real) New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, in front of a New Yorker crowd. The Tár CV is duly unfurled: an endless, glittering list of landmarks ...

  11. Tár review

    There are lots of scenes shot in the real concert hall, and Tár has an onstage interview with a real journalist: the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik, playing himself - which could have been a ...

  12. 'Tár' review: Cate Blanchett dazzles in one of the year's best films

    Tár is the work of maestros across the board, delivering not only one of the best performances of the year, but also perhaps the best film of the year as well. Tár was reviewed out of the 60th ...

  13. Tár review

    Tár is imagined to be principal conductor of a major German orchestra, addressed by colleagues as "maestro". She is passionate, demanding, autocratic, with a rockstar prestige and an ...

  14. Tar review: Cate Blanchett is at her best in a nuanced take on #MeToo

    Secondly, Lydia, while guest-lecturing at Julliard, takes up arms against a student (Zethphan Smith-Gneist) who despises Bach for his "misogyny".

  15. Movie Review: Tár : NPR

    Writer-director Todd Field conceived his new movie, "Tar," about a symphony conductor, with Cate Blanchett in mind. In fact, Field says, if she hadn't agreed to play the part, he would not have ...

  16. Review

    October 12, 2022 at 9:42 a.m. EDT. Cate Blanchett, left, in "Tár." (Focus Features) ( 4 stars) Behold Lydia Tár: lithe and silkily glamorous as a Saluki, an intricately coiled helix of ...

  17. Tár (2022)

    The film's next fifteen minutes feature a one on one interview between the film's protagonist Ms. Tar (Blanchette) and New Yorker Columnist Adam Gopnik (playing himself). The two are seated on an auditorium's stage, the audience silent, Ms. Blanchette / Tar fiercely intense as the Philharmonic Conductor describes her craft.

  18. TÁR Review

    TÁR is a masterwork. A gripping, grown-up movie superbly orchestrated by Todd Field and perfectly played by a virtuoso, career-best Cate Blanchett. 158 minutes rarely flies by so quickly. Cate ...

  19. Finally, a Great Movie About Cancel Culture

    Opinion Columnist. Midway through the enthralling new film "Tár," the heroine, a brilliant and imperious classical music conductor named Lydia Tár, is talking about the German philosopher ...

  20. Pulitzer Prizes 2024: Justin Chang Wins for Film Criticism

    Other nominees in the category included novelist and essayist Zadie Smith, who was nominated for her New York Review of Books review of the 2022 film Tar, and The New Yorker's theater critic ...

  21. Chang win Pulitzer Prize

    Columbia University, which oversees the Pulitzer Prizes, unveiled the 2024 winners on Monday, lauding Chang's contributions to film criticism across various genres. Chang left the Los Angeles Times—where he worked for nearly eight years—earlier this year to join the New Yorker. The prizes also come with a $15,000 award in most categories.

  22. 2024 Pulitzers Honor Film Critic Justin Chang, Israel Coverage

    He beat out fellow finalists Zadie Smith for her "Tár" review in The New York Review of Books, as well as Vinson Cunningham, nominated for her theater reviews for The New Yorker.

  23. Why Normal Music Reviews No Longer Make Sense for Taylor Swift

    Ask music critics what they think of Taylor Swift's eleventh studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," and those who aren't afraid of getting doxed might say something about the ...