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Film Review: Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. — Baiting the Beast Within

May 5, 2023
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The Romanian director has crafted a grueling fable about hate, lies, and misinformation in a small Transylvanian town.

Film Review: “Godland” — A Near-Masterpiece from Iceland

May 5, 2023
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This gaunt historical narrative examines “love and faith and the fear of God” while also taking on issues of colonialism and masculinity. For the most part, the grand scheme is pulled off.

Book Review: A Progressive Manifesto — “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream”

May 4, 2023
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Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.

Theater Review: “Angels in America” — Inspired Insanity

May 3, 2023
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This pared-down staging of Tony Kushner’s 30 year-old masterpiece invites some reflection, even a kind of nostalgia. But blazing through — with seraphic force — is the harsh reality of how insane we have become.

Book Review: A French Feminist Struggles with Her Abortion Decision

May 2, 2023
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Does the world really need another personal abortion story? The answer is “yes,” Pauline Harmange argues.

Book Review: Katherine Heiny’s “Games and Rituals” — Charmingly Amusing Stories

May 2, 2023
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Katherine Heiny has a particular talent for opening lines: “Your elderly father has mistaken his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eaten it.”

Film Review: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” — Payback’s a Bitch

April 29, 2023
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Armed with a quarter of a billion dollars from the people who chucked him to the MAGA wolves, director James Gunn has created one of the most mean-spirited and nasty movies to have come down the pike since Straw Dogs.

Visual Arts Review: Zoya Cherkassky – An Immigrant Paints the Other Israel

April 29, 2023
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Her hope for Israel today, Zoya Cherkassky told me, is the evolution of a multi-racial society that she hopes will ensure its survival.

Theater Review: “And So We Walked” — A Missed Opportunity

April 28, 2023
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And So We Walked is about the performer finding her roots, and that quest is often meandering.

Classical Concert Review: Pianist Evgeny Kissin — An Intuitive Majesty

April 27, 2023
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From beginning to end, this was a magical concert: beauty, poetry, and yes, unbelievable chops.

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