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The real-life friends play fictionalized versions of themselves in a genial but thin comedy built around a long-running family rumor.
Three Toronto premieres — John Trengove’s “The Smell of Apples,” Avi Nesher’s “Our Loves,” and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Bitter Christmas” — locate private lives within political violence, historical memory, and the seductive artifices of storytelling.
Kelly Anderson’s “The Wild Beneath” finds beauty in the eerie aftermath of disaster, where grief settles everywhere and the sea reshapes what its survivors believe is real.
“Jazzed” makes a persuasive case for Jack Cole’s artistic importance, even as its overly admiring portrait evades some of his darkest behavior.
Ahead of his October 2 Regattabar show, the Brooklyn-based soul singer reflects on Boston’s supportive early-2000s music scene, working with Swamp Dogg, and the pleasures and challenges of drawing from a deep catalog.
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa transforms a revenge thriller into a chilling examination of guilt, conspiracy, and the violence that permeates modern life.
Colin Kidd’s lively history follows universities in Oxford and Cambridge from postwar confidence through rebellion, Thatcherite assault, and a troubling loss of institutional nerve.
On its Cantaloupe Music debut, Phaedra Ensemble enters Monk’s strange, haunting sound world—where strings, reeds, voices, and silence dissolve familiar ideas of classical music.
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Arts Commentary: Superman, Spider-Man, and the American Art of Slugging Nazis
William Nicholas Love’s punch heard round the internet belongs to a long comic-book history of fighting homegrown fascism—from Captain America to “The Clan of the Fiery Cross.”
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