We sent both of our chief critics to “King Kong,” the $35 million, Australian-born musical that opened Thursday night at the Broadway Theater.
72 months ago

We revisit Peter Jackson's King Kong from 2005 and examine why it's an overlooked and unabashed tragedy in blockbuster clothing.
92 months ago

When it opened on this day, Mar. 2, in 1933, reviewers acknowledged the film's clumsiness — both mechanically and narratively — but called it a...
117 months ago

"Deacon King Kong" is really all about community and how communities are forced upon each other all the time and they can't escape each other.
53 months ago

An affectionate novel about a housing project where residents hunt for buried treasure and a dope dealer refuses to sell to grandmothers.
56 months ago

New giant ape musical is bizarre, messy, and excessive, but never quite satisfying as a whole. Alison Walls reviews.
72 months ago

King Kong's embodiment of the male power fantasy allows viewers to live vicariously through him as he releases his aggression on the world.
41 months ago

Kong was invented by a guy named Merian C. Cooper. He was born in Jacksonville, Fla., and went on to become a globetrotting adventurer, a really...
92 months ago

“King Kong” is a top-tiered entertainment achievement of the highest level. Not only does it operate as a very specific love letter to the original 1933 film.
227 months ago

In this 1933 film, all of the meta-fictional jibes and dramatically ironic punches land perfectly. For a movie about a giant ape, it's all fairly elegant.
157 months ago