"Tar" has won best picture from the highbrow film critics organizations. Could it win more than Cate Blanchett in best actress?

‘Tár’ Director Todd Field Explains Why the End Credits Play at the Beginning of the Film “I wanted to recalibrate the viewer’s expectations about hierarchy,” said the writer-director ...

Cate Blanchett is a force of nature as the conductor Lydia Tár in Todd Field’s intense and relentless film about a genius haunted by past misdeeds.

In writer-director Todd Field’s latest film, “Tár,” there’s a sense of intoxication in play, an air of fascination in the treatment of his leading character as a kind of monument — albeit one shadowed ...

Following Lydia from New York back home to Berlin, Field strews omens and red herrings in her path, slowly and deliberately fostering a mood of dread and paranoia. She receives an anonymous gift ...

This review originally ran Sept. 1, 2022, for the film’s Venice Film Festival premiere. If for nothing else, Todd Field’s “Tár” – a razor-sharp, post-post-MeToo character study that ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Todd Field about his new film "Tar", which tracks the fictional unraveling of one of the world's great orchestra conductors, played by Cate Blanchett.

Oscar nominee ‘Tár’ brought conducting into the spotlight. That’s not good for classical music Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field’s “Tar.” ...

Behold Lydia Tár: lithe and silkily glamorous as a Saluki, an intricately coiled helix of genius, nervous tics, elegant taste and steely nerve. Watching Cate Blanchett inhabit the most indelible ...

The tar baby story in which Bre'r Rabbit outwits Bre'r Fox is a classic trickster folk tale. But like all fables, it is a double-barreled affair, with entertainment firing in tandem with a serious ...