Month: November 2016
Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.
Read MoreThere’s nothing here to challenge the status quo, just an amiable ‘sex’ comedy about characters who aren’t getting any.
Read MoreThe publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.
Read MorePop culture visions of witches and witchcraft are growing, signs that a looming age of superstition and scapegoating is on the way.
Read MoreIf tourists come here for the fishing, the golf, the grand hotels, the real estate, why not also for an interesting lineup of movies?
Read MoreSeeing Happy Ending a few days after the shock of the 2016 presidential election felt bracing to me.
Read MoreLeonard Cohen wrote with a mature poet’s sense of compression and depth.
Read MoreHow Soft the Lining brings considerable emotional power to bear on its exploration of the complexities of American history.
Read MoreI’ve been most impressed by the manner in which these composers, in these works, took strong moral and/or political stands.
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Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust
Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.
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