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Film Review: “1917” — War is Hell, Up-Close

January 6, 2020
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George MacKay’s astonishing turn lifts 1917 from pyrotechnical marvel to a shattering emotional experience.

Book Review: “Rocking the Closet” — Queering the Mainstream

January 6, 2020
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Audiences knew (or at least thought they knew) something was up, and that something was what made these performers unique.

WATCH CLOSELY: Some Favorite TV Offerings from 2019

January 5, 2020
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We are seeing some very fine horror these days. You can’t throw a (fire) stick without having it land in some rotting corpse, a spooky cave, or in a serial killer’s cup of coffee.

Book Review: Writer Flannery O’Connor — The Most Un-Hip Woman Imaginable, and Proud of It.

January 5, 2020
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If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”

Film Review: “Satan & Adam” — The Story of a Dynamic Blues Duo

January 4, 2020
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Following the stories of these unique, gifted, and sadly overlooked individuals can be as gripping as the music they made together.

Book Review: Rereading Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”

January 3, 2020
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It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.

Visual Arts Review: The National Academy of Design — Another New Chapter?

January 3, 2020
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This fascinating exhibition surveys the entire history of the National Academy membership and, almost incidentally, provides a potent cross-section of the history of American art and its discontents.

Classical Music Album Review: Stephen Hough plays Brahms — The Final Piano Pieces

January 3, 2020
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This CD with British pianist Stephen Hough is a gem — and it was named Recording of the Month by Gramophone Magazine.

Film Review: “In Fabric” — Weird, Witchy Fashion

January 2, 2020
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In Fabric is a mesh of black comedy, horror, and art house psychedelia. I found it wildly original.

The Arts Fuse Mentorship Program: Student Reviews from Somerville High School

December 31, 2019
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The Arts Fuse Mentorship Program invites high school students from diverse backgrounds (in this go around from Somerville High School) to team-up with Arts Fuse critics.

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