Review

Visual Art Review: The Sacred Act of Making — Boston Artists Explore Ritual and Space

February 15, 2026
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In this exhibit, curator Robin Hauck celebrates ten Boston-area artists who resist the relentless distractions that contemporary life imposes on all of us.

Film Review: “The Moment” — Charli XCX’s Self-Parody Is Just Another Product

February 14, 2026
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Perhaps “The Moment” did manage to nail one truth about the music industry: when fame and opportunity come knocking, it’s near impossible not to wring out every drop of profit.

Book Review: A Writer’s Life Reconsidered — Paule Marshall’s Artistry and Influence

February 14, 2026
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Mary Helen Washington’s biography of Paule Marshall provides a thorough consideration of the writer’s achievement and a convincing case that her fiction and her public speeches deserve continuing attention and respect.

Book Review: Spotlight on Rock’s Backbone: The “Backbeats” of 15 Drummers

February 13, 2026
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Backbeats is a detailed and informative story. Each profile functions as an entry point into a selective but substantial survey of roughly seventy-five years of rock history.

Film Review: “Pillion” — Sub Drop

February 13, 2026
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The intention isn’t to provoke, eroticize, or sexually titillate. Devoid of the kinds of melodramatics that play into the fujoshi fantasy that’s all the rage right now, “Pillion” is a film about fetishes that never fetishizes its subject matter to placate an outsider’s gaze.

Book Review: “Ethel Barrymore” — A Reliable Itinerary, but the Bio Misses the Journey

February 13, 2026
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Kathleen Spaltro’s biography of Ethel Barrymore briskly traces her mythic career but brings to life neither the woman nor her theatre.

Film Review: By the Numbers — They All Add Up in “Crime 101”

February 12, 2026
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With its briskly intoxicating style, narrative aplomb, and masterful performances, this film transforms pulpy material into a gripping entertainment with a satisfying, social justice subtext.

Rock Album Review: On “Normal Isn’t,” Puscifer Dances Through the New Abnormal

February 11, 2026
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Puscifer is alarmed that so many values, including bedrock rights, are under attack, with real people getting hurt (in some cases killed) in the process.

Poetry Review: “A Violence” from Within — Paula Bohince’s Switchblade Lyricism

February 11, 2026
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You can almost hear the volume whispering in your ear, “Be like lichen.” Traumatic grief, political tyranny, and environmental catastrophe are not irreversible.

Film Review: “Honey Bunch” — A Hallucinatory Take on Married Love and Lost Memories

February 11, 2026
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Directors Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli indulge in a few too many changes of tone, but their film offers a pleasantly oddball romance.

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