Appiah’s is a protean, rigorous, generous, and elegant mind
To cast Johansson as the film’s voice is as perfect as casting Phoenix — whose lambent eyes, cleft-lip scar, and tendency to shy lend him an almost equine grace — as its face
There is something excoriating about sitting in the dark next to someone you love, watching a movie about love, knowing both stories are going to end badly.
A motorcycle racer and art student who heads to New York in the mid-Seventies with an inchoate ambition, Reno swiftly moves from the outskirts of the city’s conceptual art circles to its center.
