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Film Review: “Concrete Utopia” — No Room at the Top

December 13, 2023
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“Concrete Utopia” echoes “Parasite”’s sharp critique of class exploitation, but it applies a faster pace and more restless energy to its vision of economic meltdown.

Film Review: Misplaced Accents Almost Undermine “Eileen”

December 12, 2023
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Like the novel it is based on, “Eileen” eventually becomes a morally ambiguous, and twisted, noirish mystery.

Album Review: “More Than a Whisper: Celebrating the Music of Nanci Griffith” — A Flawless Tribute

December 11, 2023
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Love for Nanci Griffith has empowered a hell of a record.

Concert Review: Indie-Folk Sensation Anjimile at the ICA

December 11, 2023
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The heart of Friday’s performance came in stark impressions borne through Anjimile’s vulnerable voice — along with a little help from his friends.

Film Review: “American Fiction” — Pinned Down by Blackness

December 10, 2023
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In this promising filmmaking debut of Cord Jefferson, we’re given a too-rare peek in cinema into upper middle-class African-American life.

Book Reviews: Peter Stamm’s “The Archive of Feelings” and Bernhard Schlink’s “The Grandaughter”

December 9, 2023
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One wonders sometimes whether the weight of acclaim doesn’t place an author beyond critical reproach. The bandwagon effect.

Jazz Concert Review: “Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday” — A Prodigious Joy

December 9, 2023
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Samara Joy uncorked her gospel pipes, the likes of which probably haven’t been heard on mainstream secular stages since Aretha Franklin.

Visual Arts Review: “Fashioned by Sargent” — Round Two

December 8, 2023
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Was John Singer Sargent just a talented flatterer of his wealthy patrons or was there more to him?

Dance Review: Continuum Dance Project’s “Not Eye, Us” — A Call for Community

December 8, 2023
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In this rigorous, timely dance-theater work, the performers provide a challenge to our beliefs and a salve for our hearts.

Television Review: “We Live Here: The Midwest” — Family Matters

December 7, 2023
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By focusing on just a few households, rather than surveying all the available examples, this documentary succeeds at its essential (and valuable) goal — to humanize its subjects.

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