Film
What happens when a dubious scientific experiment yields unexpected results?
Joanna Hogg refuses by aesthetic principle to put a lot of inflection into her scenes, steering them away from melodrama and even heated drama. As a result, some episodes are half-baked, sketchy, and flat.
This fantasy musical is unexpectedly moving, a driven and musically satisfying experience for serious Elton John fans.
This screening of Carl Dreyer’s classic film will offer some exceptional, and exciting, musical strengths.
Verisimilitude is rarely a meaningful measure by which to judge a film, but The Souvenir is obsessed with exploring the line between documentary and narrative, reality and art.
In Photograph, embracing your roots can nurture love — in very unexpected ways.
As readers know, a thread of melancholy runs through Tolkien’s masterwork, deepening and informing his achievement. It should, by rights, have its place in any depiction of his life.
Zhang Yimou’s return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity — and zithers.
The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected.
Film Commentary: “Between the Lines” Eulogizes the Beginning of the End of Boston’s Alt-Weekly Era
Even 42 years ago, disillusionment was setting in among the workers at alt-weekly papers like The Real Paper and The Boston Phoenix.
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