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Film Review: “The Love Witch” — Retro Horror in Delicious Color

November 22, 2016
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The Love Witch is sure to be one of the year’s most talked about achievements in cinematography.

Book Review: “The Unknown Kerouac” — Unnecessary?

November 22, 2016
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The Unknown Kerouac is good for the advancement of Kerouac scholarship, but the book hardly justifies, for the average reader, its price and size.

Theater Review: “Straight White Men” — No Surprises

November 21, 2016
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What the play lacks in surprise, the Wilbury treatment makes up for in excellent staging, acting, and a commitment to physical theater.

Theater Review: Huntington Theatre Company’s “Bedroom Farce” — Sleepytime

November 19, 2016
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There’s nothing here to challenge the status quo, just an amiable ‘sex’ comedy about characters who aren’t getting any.

Film Commentary: Witches are the Rage

November 17, 2016
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Pop culture visions of witches and witchcraft are growing, signs that a looming age of superstition and scapegoating is on the way.

Film Review: Down Mexico Way — Los Cabos International Film Festival

November 16, 2016
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If tourists come here for the fishing, the golf, the grand hotels, the real estate, why not also for an interesting lineup of movies?

Theater Review: “Happy Ending” — A Dark Comedy About Terminal Cancer

November 16, 2016
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Seeing Happy Ending a few days after the shock of the 2016 presidential election felt bracing to me.

Remembrance: The Somber Artistry of Leonard Cohen

November 15, 2016
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Leonard Cohen wrote with a mature poet’s sense of compression and depth.

Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust

November 15, 2016
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Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.

Theater Review: “How Soft the Lining” — A Powerful History Lesson

November 15, 2016
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How Soft the Lining brings considerable emotional power to bear on its exploration of the complexities of American history.

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