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This album is a remarkably mature effort. The Weeknd reflects on his long career while expanding on his earlier accomplishments.
The first three films I saw at the Sundance Film Festival were very high-profile premieres.
The primary interest of Reframed isn’t film history; it is revisionist social statement, and a new twist on the celebrity documentary: star bio-cum-feminist essay.
As We See It is a humorous as well as heart-wrenching look at the realities of living with autism.
Viewers are drawn into an active, immersive experience watching the series. They come away with the feeling that poetry is in them.
Berkeley’s Nelson reinforces my sense that many fine composers of the twentieth century have largely slid off the map because they did not cater to the obsession of many critics and academics with “the New at all cost.”
I found Through a Screen Darkly to be as enlightening as it is useful: we don’t just read about and invest our emotions in other lives; we learn what to do about our own.
Beyond its engaging plot and the tour de force performances by Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter is a gorgeous and sure-handed work of cinema.
A surprisingly moving collection, all of it mightily played and sung by musicians who clearly intuit John Harbison’s musical language.
Arts Commentary: Separating the Maker from the Made, the Doer from the Doing
It is natural to believe that there is (or should be) a close connection between the personality and the work.
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