hollywood
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Maybe being quarantined for so long has taken its toll, but Hollywood satisfies well enough as a vibrant escape to glamorous parties filled with scheming executives and hot-to-trot actors on the make.
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Play The Way You Feel is the best volume around on the uneasy relationship between film and jazz.
Read MoreThe Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, provide an on-target parody in Hail, Caesar!, their funny period comedy set in ’50s Hollywood.
Read MoreThe cinematic contrast between America and Latin America was on tragic view at the Maine International Film Festival on Saturday.
Read MoreLooked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
Read MoreBenton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.
This kind of faux-inspirational drivel has Hollywood privilege written all over it.
Read MoreBoston’s MFA should be congratulated for screening these Technicolor musicals in way that does wondrous justice to their eye-popping colors.
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