Review
John Worthen’s biography explores the composer’s lifelong devotion to Clara Schumann and its role in shaping his music.
It Will Come Back to You’s intricate, puzzle-like narratives shine—except when insider gossip gets in the way.
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa trades spectacle for suspense in a period thriller about honor, hostage, and haiku.
HBO’s docuseries on the illegal reptile trade is less wild than its predecessors, but its sorrowful, criminal undertow makes it unsettling in a different way.
Kamasi Washington, Herbie Hancock, Flea and a lively new generation showed how the festival is stretching jazz’s boundaries without losing its center.
On “Bring on the Psychics,” the post-hardcore veterans sound urgent, thoughtful and surprisingly rejuvenated, balancing punishing riffs with hard-won wisdom.
The weekend stand in Boston offered crowd-pleasers, deep cuts, and one of Phish’s most startling bust-outs in decades.
In her wry, incisive documentary, filmmaker Penny Lane turns an owl’s rise and fall into an unusually moving inquiry into animal sentience, urban spectacle, and the cost of liberation.
The Dardenne brothers’ latest film transforms a series of fragile stories about teenage motherhood into an unsentimental, deeply compassionate study of resilience.
A Singapore Symphony Orchestra recording of compositions by John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, and Hugo Friedhofer quietly punctures old prejudices about film composers and “serious” music.
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