Review
Rimsky-Korsakov’s delightful village comedy, based on a Gogol short story, receives a modern recording that features a superb international cast.
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The spring season has yielded a sizable crop of musical revivals. But how many of them actually bear fruit?
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This provocative installation is at the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum is a “dystopian meditation on the lives of marginalized groups, debt, the challenges of home ownership and living in a climate-stressed world today.”
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A powerful performer and artist emerges in this ambitious album about being publicly ostracized and maligned — and coming back stronger.
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What sets “Cold Nights of Childhood “wonderfully apart from today’s autofiction genre is the narrator’s absolute lack of self-pity. There is no blame-game, and no lugubrious victimhood.
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“I Saw the TV Glow” is nothing short of astonishing, a defining moment in queer cinema in the making and proof positive that Jane Schoenbrun is one of our generation’s most needed filmmakers.
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The relationship between the two leads keeps Nowhere Special grounded in what is the film’s moving core — a high-stakes love story between a father and a son.
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Veteran British director Ken Loach turns over a new leaf in “The Old Oak”.
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“Challengers” is an exploration of eroticism in the broadest sense: the eroticism of competition, the sensuality of sport, and the messiness of human relationships.
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Book Reviews: Something Wickedly Imbecilic This Way Comes
Two books chase the devil’s tail as they examine America’s evil ways.
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