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Films like Ben is Back will not foster an understanding of how drug addiction ravages the lives of the poor, the incarcerated, the uneducated, and the less fortunate.
Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.
Roma is Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous, neorealist ode to his formative years growing up in ’70s Mexico City, and to the housekeeper he took for granted as she carried him through that tumultuous decade.
I speak for the legions who benefitted from your friendship and your great energy and talent.
This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.
The Tallis Scholars are unquestionably today’s most renowned exponent of Renaissance sacred music.
Pete Shelley’s elegies for the wilted flowers of romance were shouted over songs that were alternately tuneful and fierce.
The company’s staging is dynamic and vivacious, and the unconventional seating arrangements give audience members the chance to place themselves in the center of the action.
None of the opera recordings I have reviewed this past year beats this Cradle for dramatic vitality, musical imagination, and ongoing political relevance.
Film Commentary: A Critical Dichotomy — Time to Resolve It
It’s as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.
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