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Film Review: “Orwell: 2+2=5” — Big Brother Is Here

October 11, 2025
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Director Raoul Peck, like his subject George Orwell, encourages critical thinking and urges us to consider how best to resist the strengthening forces of tyranny.

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Toronto Film Festival: “Nuns vs. The Vatican” — Courage, Cover-Ups, and Calls for Accountability

October 10, 2025
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“Nuns vs. The Vatican” prepares its audience for an ongoing story that is expanding each time one more victim agrees to talk publicly. Do not doubt that there will be a sequel.

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Film Review: “Good Fortune” — Let Them Eat Tacos?

October 10, 2025
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 If only every billionaire could be forced to work as a food delivery driver and learn the true meaning of Christmas.

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Theater Review: “Metamorphoses” — Everybody in the Pool

October 9, 2025
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The Berkshire Theatre Group production of “Metamorphoses” is consistently engaging and, at times, deeply powerful.

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Film Review: “Tron: Ares” — It Might Have Been a Contender

October 9, 2025
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 Tron: Ares  hurries from one spectacular concept and one spectacular set piece to another. But it doesn’t take the time to let any of those remarkable things sink in.

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Film Review: Dispatch #3 — From the New York Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother”

October 9, 2025
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and re-set your metabolism. It invites you to tune out all the noise and sit with the silences between people. A daring ask in a digital world where everyone’s glued to their screens the better to pick up the noise.

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Poetry Review: Shangyang Fang’s “Study of Sorrow: Translations”

October 8, 2025
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We owe Shangyang Fang a debt for bringing the delicacy, obliqueness, and sheer tremulous beauty of these Chinese poems to English-speaking readers.

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Book Review: “Queer Enlightenments” – Flaming Creatures of Yore

October 8, 2025
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This lively foray into popular history, and others, exemplifies the move to attract younger audiences with open and freewheeling interests in gender and sexual nonconformity.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Contradictions of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4

October 7, 2025
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The Latvian conductor can sometimes overindulge in pieces that demand shifts in emotional direction on a dime, so the frenzied eclecticism of Mahler’s Fourth feels tailor-made for him.

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Book Review: “Fifty Poems” — An Offering on the Altar of Rainer Maria Rilke

October 7, 2025
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If, as a commemorative volume, “Fifty Poems” introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task.

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