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Television Review: “Stumble” Finds Its Footing in the Cheer Comedy Arena

November 20, 2025
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“Stumble” is a welcome addition to the increasingly tired mockumentary genre.

Book Review: Stephen Rebello’s “Criss-Cross”: A Vital Text for Decoding Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train”

November 19, 2025
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There’s no question that the author of “Criss-Cross” approaches “Strangers on a Train” from a gay-centric viewpoint.

Book Review: “We Had it Coming and Other Fictions” — Bursts of Existential Powerlessness

November 19, 2025
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Luke O’Neil doesn’t have any solutions to our political dissipation, but he certainly knows how to diagnose its illnesses.

Dance Review: Camille A. Brown’s “I AM” — Where Ferocity Becomes Joy

November 19, 2025
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There is a sense that once wound up, the dancers are not going to let go – not from their power and not from their dreams.

Theater Review: “Summer, 1976” Revisits Simpler Times—A Poignant Portrait of Friendship and Change

November 18, 2025
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“Summer, 1976” is a cleverly designed snapshot of a deep but fleeting friendship.

Book Review: “Pre-Code Essentials” — When Moviemakers Played the Game of Evade-The-Censor

November 18, 2025
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Film fans who love the style and spirit of early-thirties Hollywood will have to control themselves from drooling happily all over this fabulously written, photo-filled volume.

Film Review: “Jay Kelly”, When Hollywood Mocks Itself — and Misses

November 18, 2025
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 By Sarah Osman Jay Kelly is a shallow attack on shallowness. Jay Kelly, directed by Noah Baumbach. Screening at Coolidge Corner Theater, AMC Theaters, Landmark Kendall Square Cinema. Who are you when you’re always playing other people? And what happens when, even as “yourself,” you feel you are still playing a character? That is the…

Concert Review: “Inspiración” – The BSO Celebrates Puerto Rico with the Orquesta Sinfónico de Puerto Rico, and Re-celebrates James Carter with Dima Slobodeniouk

November 18, 2025
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Concerts in the past week by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with guest artist James Carter and the Orquesta Sinfónico de Puerto Rico with guest artist Luis Sanz were a cultural festival and a musical feast.

Classical Music Album Review: Miró Quartet Plays Alberto Ginastera’s Three String Quartets

November 18, 2025
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The album ends up paying dividends, not just for fans and students of 20th-century composition, but for anyone interested in the broader reach and global development of classical music in the last century.

Film Review: Troubled “Dreams”

November 17, 2025
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This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson’s sublime 2011 novella.

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