Review
Portraits of a legendary critic and modern Deadheads highlight what’s gained—and lost—when culture resists critique.
Sharon Rothstein’s sharp drama shifts the focus from censorship to the corrosive culture of public shaming.
Apple TV’s reboot leans into slow-burn menace over Scorsese-style excess, with Javier Bardem channeling the original film’s unnerving restraint.
Steven Spielberg revisits extraterrestrial wonder with technical virtuosity, but his media-age fable drifts into sentimentality and soft-focus optimism.
Jonathan Spector’s successful satire finds biting comedy—and uneasy truth—in the limits of well-meaning consensus.
Dimitri Elias Léger’s novel turns a final moment into a sweeping meditation on love, history, and the Beautiful Game.
“The Yahoo Boys” dissects a global grift fueled by digital intimacy, economic despair, and willful belief.
At Indian Ranch, Little Feat balances nostalgia and renewal in a high-caliber stop on its “Last Farewell Tour.”
Orchestral splendor meets interpretive risk in two Mahler releases.
Suzy Hansen’s “From Life Itself” traces the human cost of modernization and authoritarianism in a changing city.
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