Review
Whatever else 2024 has in store for queer filmmakers and audiences, there’s likely to be nothing else that’ll put a smile on your face quite like “The People’s Joker.”
“Amar Singh Chamkila” doesn’t hit the compelling heights of “Highway” and “Tanasha,” but the director Imtiaz Ali successfully infuses — within the limits of the musical biopic — a buoyant, rebellious spirit.
If “La Chimera” is a bit harder to penetrate than the director-writer’s previous works, it boasts some captivating passages and raises pertinent questions about art, history, globalism, and national identity.
“Ripley” is one of the most entertaining and finely-wrought thriller series to come from Netflix in years.
This book is a fiery manifesto that charges that copyright law today is an outrageously unjust scheme that does nothing for 99 percent of authors, other creative people, and their fans, while it locks up a commodity that fills the coffers of large corporations.
Pianist Noah Haidu’s impeccably performed and recorded “Standards II” is a winner.
The Aussie teen soap falls victim to the dreaded sophomore slump.
Who would predict that this perfectly calibrated tale would be yanked out of its early 20th century setting and become dystopian science-fiction?
In this dreamworld, the politics don’t matter. It’s the artfully gruesome spectacle that counts — that and the hackneyed Hollywood storyline about the hardened veteran mentoring the neophyte through an initiation into the harsh realities of the profession.
The Lyric Stage Company production almost meets the challenges posed by this delightfully inane musical farce.
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