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Film Review: Elizabeth Holmes, Replicant

October 14, 2026
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Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” turns the Theranos saga into a revelatory, Philip K. Dickian inquiry into artifice, identity, and truth.

Doc Talk: Two Exemplary Lives at The Boston Palestine Film Festival

October 14, 2026
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Two compelling documentaries at the Boston Palestine Film Festival trace Edward Said’s intellectual awakening and the unfinished search for justice for Alex Odeh.

Book Review: “The People’s Paper” Offers a Rollicking Account of New York’s Daily News and Its War with the New York Post

October 13, 2026
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Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor.

Film Review: “Fjord” Puts Conviction on Trial

October 13, 2026
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Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner asks whether understanding others requires seeing their side—or questioning our own.

Film Review: “Strangers and Their Babies” — The People the World Didn’t Count

October 12, 2026
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Asio Liu’s documentary uncovers the forgotten history of unlisted Vietnamese “boat people” refugee camps in the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

Theater Review: “Slam Frank” – Nobody Is Safe. And That’s the Point

October 11, 2026
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A satirical musical that offends everyone equally hides its real argument until the final minutes.

Book Review: “Tender Is the Night” — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Novel of Compassion and Sacrifice

October 11, 2026
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An appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most personal novel, in which a marriage’s collapse becomes a searching exploration of love, ambition, and the courage to begin again.

Watch Closely: “Carrie” Comes of Age—and Gets Complicated

October 10, 2026
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Mike Flanagan’s ambitious update of Stephen King’s classic pairs a superb cast with social media cruelty and an expanding supernatural world that sometimes overwhelms the story.

Theater Review: In SpeakEasy’s “Covenant,” the Devil Is in the Desires

October 8, 2026
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Dawn M. Simmons directs a taut Southern Gothic thriller in which thwarted longing and the promise of escape turn a Georgia household into a cauldron of suspicion.

Visual Arts Review: The Art Bastard Returns — With Trump and Company in Hell

October 8, 2026
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At New York’s Art Students League, Robert Cenedella’s grotesque group portrait turns the MAGA elite into a gathering of horned grotesques.

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