The Harlem Hellfighters, an all-Black U.S. regiment in World War I, were sent to fight under French command after being ...

Adapted from his play of the same name, which premiered in Los Angeles in 2023 before mounting a Chicago production this spring, “Henry Johnson” unfolds over the course of four two-handed scenes.

That makes it a pleasure to be reminded, in Henry Johnson’s attention-grabbing opening, of Mamet at the peak of his considerable powers. A casual conversation between work colleagues that’s ...

He was pinning it down like a butterfly and diagramming it. “Henry Johnson” is the film version of a Mamet play that premiered in Los Angeles in 2023 (it’s the first movie he has directed in ...

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Which makes David Mamet’s compelling screen version of his latest play, Henry Johnson, a curious anomaly. Rather than attempting to open out this characteristically talky, structurally stagey ...

And with “Henry Johnson,” his first film in 10 years, he invites his devotees to look under the hood and examine the psyche of one of the weak, easily manipulated individuals that his most memorable ...