The fall theater season is still young, but Nick Whitby's "To Be or Not to Be" may turn out to be the most unnecessary Broadway production of the year. A wan if sporadically amusing adaptation of the classic Ernst Lubitsch film comedy, this lavish ...

Considering they're the most enduring features of many people's lives and have probably kept a writer or two out of the asylum, platonic relationships get low billing in cinema - maybe because they lack the dramatic TNT of sexual passion, and the kind of slow-burn cinema needed to realistically portray a long friendship is now about as fashionable as ...