Review
Jean Trounstine’s experience enables her to present convincingly the desperate circumstances of people whose family members have been arrested and incarcerated, sometimes legitimately, often not.
Read MoreProtecting the imagination — whether our own or others — means encouraging questions about whose voice isn’t being heard and why, whose words are being erased, and whose stories unsettle the status quo.
Read More“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.
Read MoreThe volume is an ambitious balancing act: the echoes of memory meet the grit of experience, musical language interlaced with occasional thick texture, nostalgic passion counterposed to philosophical calm.
Read MoreThis is a tense morality play, with twists odd enough (and a palette dark enough) to sustain a noir-inflected thriller of almost two hours.
Read MoreThe Cambridge Symphony Orchestra’s recent performance supplied drama, vigor, and reflection.
Read MoreTransformative narratives shape the documentaries in the 40th annual Wicked Queer Film Festival.
Read MoreBy Neil Giordano A selection of notable documentaries currently in the digital universe: Christian missionaries, high school athletics, and a trio of filmmakers who mess with Texas. A familiar story — a young man on a quixotic quest that ends in tragedy — takes a new turn in National Geographic’s The Mission (Hulu, Disney+), a…
Read More“Femme” proves that finessing the depiction of a toxic romance can lead to some ugly places.
Read MoreSessanta succeeded in making “old” songs and “old” bands sound powerful, vital, and progressive.
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