Review
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Markus Friedrich, a professor of early modern history at the University of Hamburg, has written a scholarly but immensely readable history of the order that will appeal to an audience beyond the Catholic tradition.
The Berlin international Film Festival has always been an event where films on art, architecture, and design premiere. This year, as always, the selections were a mixed bag.
Sankofa Danzafro’s Accommodating Lie, is a bold work of art that delivers an indispensable history lesson.
If you are not familiar with Wadada Leo Smith as an artist or as a thinker, you could start with The Chicago Symphonies and know that you are engaging with some of his finest work.
Senorita 89 isn’t an easy watch because of its stinging depiction of misogyny, but it’s a powerful one.
Matt Reeves’ The Batman features villains who lose their shit when faced with an African American politician whose campaign slogan is centered on “Change.”
Diamonds, drugs, and sex — the stuff of movies.
There is much to recommend in this opulently romantic film.
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