David Rooney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

David Rooney

Noah Baumbach's ambitious take on Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE, now in theaters ahead of its Dec. 30 Netflix premiere, ends with an exhilarating supermarket dance number set to a catchy new LCD Soundsystem banger. The rest is hit or miss. My @THR review https://t.co/hcZTFseicn

David Rooney

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker spark up Neil Simon's PLAZA SUITE, but even they can't blow the dust off the dated material in this plush Broadway revival. My @THR review https://t.co/E3qVhm2GHQ

David Rooney

Revisiting the Broadway cast album of Dave Malloy's magnificent NATASHA PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812, the most audacious & inventive new musical of the past decade or more. No doubt destined to be rediscovered & given fuller appreciation in time. "Sonya Alone" still wrecks me https://t.co/zFLxTGa1ZN

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Kenneth Branagh again puts on the outsize Hercule Poirot mustache in his second Agatha Christie remake DEATH ON THE NILE, which is generally more transporting than his MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. My review for @THR https://t.co/RWZ6IYmMA2

David Rooney

David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori's KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a work of such tenderness that its bright comedy and shimmering vein of melancholy converge into something beautiful and all too rare in a Broadway musical. Don't miss it. My @THR review https://t.co/SLAWTF705T

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Paul Schrader's MASTER GARDENER has the right bones to complete a powerful late-career triptych with FIRST REFORMED & CARD COUNTER, including strong work by Joel Edgerton. But somehow it just sits there, inert. My @THR review of the #venezia79 premiere https://t.co/Utuqm0XOZA

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@austinkleon Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking is an obvious one. And not about loss so much as illness, but Australian writer Helen Garner's The Spare Room is beautiful in its nuanced reflections on our complicated feelings about death

David Rooney

@austinkleon Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking is an obvious one. And not about loss so much as illness, but Australian writer Helen Garner's The Spare Room is beautiful in its nuanced reflections on our complicated feelings about death

David Rooney

Wasn't expecting such an emotional gut punch from LEOPOLDSTADT, Tom Stoppard's semi-autobiographical portrait of a family of Austrian Jews before and after the Holocaust, opening tonight on Broadway. The standout of a very fine ensemble is Brandon Uranowitz, just heartbreaking https://t.co/bFLMCLNUaU

David Rooney

@Geniusbastard Of course he's more respectable and FURY ROAD is a banger for the ages, but "From the genius of George Miller" stuck on marketing for the god-awful 3,000 YEARS OF LONGING also reeks

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