It’s hard to say writer-director Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is bad. It’s certainly well-made. It also sounds amazing. Most importantly, it features a genuinely outstanding lead performance ...

Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of a heart attack yesterday at the age of 82. No sooner was his death announced then the whitewash of his record bordering on hagiography started pouring in. The New ...

Like “biography” and “autograph,” the word “hagiography” has to do with the written word. The combining form “-graphy” comes from Greek “graphein,” meaning “to write.” “Hagio-” comes from a Greek word ...

Unapologetically enthusiastic about its subject, this enjoyable if over-egged (and overlong) hagiography of golfing legend Severiano "Seve" Ballesteros pads its gripping sports reportage with ...

But the “hollow hagiography” of the Linklater doc, as Variety film critic Peter Debruge put it, provokes a concern about the Tarantino project. An auteur as wildly inventive as the “Pulp Fiction” ...