Film
Director Sachs calls “Your Day is My Night” a “hybrid documentary,” with real-life stories told by middle-aged and elderly Chinese immigrants presented in a honed, often theatrical, style rather than as verité oral histories.
Read MoreDoes every semi-famous person deserve a full-length documentary about them?
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual art, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!
Read More“Hannah Arendt” is a substantial and worthwhile portrait of the influential and controversial thinker who gave us the phrase “the banality of evil.”
Read MoreDavid Blaine, Criss Angel, and of course, David Copperfield have used technology to create some highly sophisticated illusions, but films about magicians have been rare.
Read MoreThe film “Admission” resembles many of the rejected college applicants it portrays: likeable and clever, with a good story and the best of intentions, but not quite Ivy League material.
Read More[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!
Read MoreThe based-on-fact A Hijacking is a deft, intelligent, tense and exciting melodrama from Denmark about a Danish ship that is taken by Somali pirates.
Read MoreRussian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Nigeria and Uganda and the Muslim world.
Read More“The Heat” plays with clichés from a long line of mismatched buddy cop comedies, and it’s as good as any in the genre’s pantheon.
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