Review
Extensive and eclectic, DOC NYC is a sampling of documentary films for the coming year. These favorites are worth searching out.
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Olivia Laing’s hard-driven narrative, set mostly in 1975, combines a gay romance with a literary text about the dangers of resurfacing fascism, a discourse on 20th-century avant-garde film-making, and a political thriller.
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Many of the poems in this new collection take in the world through a distinctively painterly eye for scenes and sketches.
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The Disco Biscuits chose Boston as its base for a three-night New Year’s run that unfolded in three different venues.
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“Wonder” aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us “choose kind.”
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“No Other Choice”’s South Korea looks as if it is steadily transforming into a home more fit for robots — manning the sawmills of capitalism — than humans.
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Bi Gan’s sumptuous elegy to cinema is an artistic triumph, but the dreamy narrative may leave some viewers restless.
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2025 turned out to be a feast year for devotees of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. The music found on both of these releases could be thought of as exemplifying three areas Bloom has explored in depth and refined to purity.
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Applying a litmus test to art — in this case ideological sanitizing — inevitably diminishes the art.
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Appreciations of three remarkable translated works that have preoccupied me for months.
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