Review
As its plot unfolds, Amsterdam treats us to a strangely magical form of visual and verbal storytelling, both humorous and hard-edged, by turns sweet and shocking, with richly curated frames and bright spirited dialogue.
Bros jokes about the hypocrisies of corporate diversity — often accurately, and with a cutting edge — while embodying some of the same problems.
This recording presents one of the most lucid and well-programmed portraits of John Adams to emerge, well, in a long while.
As far as tour openers go, the concert on Friday presented no signs of a band holding back or slow to gain speed.
The action, as it were, is mostly the exhaustively filmed grappling of two beautiful people in no-star motels.
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.
Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.
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.
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
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.
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