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Sharon Rothstein’s sharp drama shifts the focus from censorship to the corrosive culture of public shaming.
Apple TV’s reboot leans into slow-burn menace over Scorsese-style excess, with Javier Bardem channeling the original film’s unnerving restraint.
Steven Spielberg revisits extraterrestrial wonder with technical virtuosity, but his media-age fable drifts into sentimentality and soft-focus optimism.
Jonathan Spector’s successful satire finds biting comedy—and uneasy truth—in the limits of well-meaning consensus.
Dimitri Elias Léger’s novel turns a final moment into a sweeping meditation on love, history, and the Beautiful Game.
At Indian Ranch, Little Feat balances nostalgia and renewal in a high-caliber stop on its “Last Farewell Tour.”
Orchestral splendor meets interpretive risk in two Mahler releases.
Palestinian scholar Lelia Farsakh reflects on a life shaped by displacement, her father’s legacy, and the political and personal stakes behind her emerging memoir.
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