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When will there be a sitcom worthy of Tim Meadows’ talents?
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Besides Chainsaw Man’s abundant visual pleasures and uncompromising blend of ultra-violence and adolescent sexuality, one of its particular draws is that it’s a cinephile’s anime.
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Broadway is being subjected to a steady parade of Hollywood names parachuting into familiar titles, propped up by prestige directors and stratospheric ticket prices.
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If it is possible for people to express a deep personal regard for one another through musical collaboration, that is what happens between John Scofield and Dave Holland in their upcoming release.
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The monster almost comes alive.
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There was little doubt that the singer owned every note with a pure sense of conviction — and community — that blew past rock-star trappings.
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Director Richard Linklater gets lyrical in “Blue Moon.”
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First-rate performances, including by a Norwegian orchestra and conductor plus superb international singers, make this one a winner.
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Visual Arts Commentary: What Would It Be Like If Women Ruled Israel and Gaza?
Perhaps asking that Judy Chicago’s exhibition not come was a necessary strategy in the short term, to help end Israeli brutality. But the lesson her show teaches us is necessary in the long term, so that Israelis will stop glorifying that very same brutality.
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