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Film Review: “The Revenant” — Where Have You Gone, Sam Peckinpah?

January 9, 2016
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The implausibility of The Revenant is jaw-dropping.

Film Review: “Mustang” — Passion, Caged

January 6, 2016
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Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.

Film Review: Hell is the Nervous Laughter of Tom Noonan — Charlie Kaufman’s Inscrutable “Anomalisa”

January 4, 2016
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Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.

Fuse Coming Attractions: January 3 through 12 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 3, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Fuse Film Preview: Graham Greene’s “Words in Motion” at the MFA

January 1, 2016
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In his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.

Fuse Film Commentary: Guilty Displeasures — The Hated 8

January 1, 2016
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Are people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?

Theater Review: “Arabian Nights” — A Fabulous Fantasy for All Ages

December 31, 2015
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The actors’ infectious energy and absolute dedication to imaginative play-acting help make Arabian Nights spellbinding.

Book Review: “The English and Their History” — A Panoramic View of the Past

December 29, 2015
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With this excellent volume, Robert Tombs offers further proof that there should be no variance between good history and good writing.

Film Reviews: Let’s Get Physical — “Concussion” and “Point Break”

December 27, 2015
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Concussion butts heads with the NFL; Point Break is pointless.

Film Review: “Joy” and “The Danish Girl” — Gratification Limited

December 26, 2015
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The unimportance of being too earnest.

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