Review

Film Review: “Bros” — A Thoroughly Mainstream Gay Rom-Com

October 4, 2022
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Bros jokes about the hypocrisies of corporate diversity — often accurately, and with a cutting edge — while embodying some of the same problems.

Classical Album Review: “John Adams” — Mastering the Style of an Iconic American Composer

October 3, 2022
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This recording presents one of the most lucid and well-programmed portraits of John Adams to emerge, well, in a long while.

Concert Review: Bobby Weir and the Wolf Brothers — Transforming the Legacy of the Grateful Dead

October 3, 2022
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As far as tour openers go, the concert on Friday presented no signs of a band holding back or slow to gain speed.

Film Review: Claire Denis’s “Stars At Noon” — A Romance Novel Elevated by Auteurist Flourishes

October 2, 2022
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The action, as it were, is mostly the exhaustively filmed grappling of two beautiful people in no-star motels.

Classical Album Review: Khachaturian Piano Music

October 2, 2022
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Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, at his best, was compelling. Granted, he wasn’t working at this level in every piece. But most of his bigger works are better than not.

Book Review: “Two Nurses, Smoking” — A Skillful Take on the Times

October 2, 2022
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Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.

Theater Review: “Ada and the Engine” — A Free-Spirited Young Female Math Wiz in Victorian England

October 1, 2022
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You don’t have to be a math wiz to enjoy Lauren Gunderson’s engaging historical drama, which has been effectively staged by director Debra Wise.

Classical Album Review: Composer Derek Bermel’s “Intonations” — Turning Acerbity and Complexity on Their Heads

October 1, 2022
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For Derek Bermel fans, Intonations is a must. For new music enthusiasts and the otherwise curious – ditto.

Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive

September 30, 2022
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Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.

Film Review: “My Best Friend’s Exorcism” — Wasted Bandwidth

September 30, 2022
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There’s no real engagement with the ’80s, so this attempt at horror/comedy is politically and emotionally inert, profoundly unfunny and pathetically un-scary.

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