Review
John Corigliano’s take on goodbyes is, if not exactly bitter, then full of sorrow: few happy memories to be had here.
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The Oscar-nominated animation shorts are a dark lot this year.
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It’s impossible not to be moved by Lauren Gunderson’s elegant, understated writing.
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The Western Wind turns out to be a beautifully written novel, a serious book of great depth, intention, and craft.
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The film assembles an eclectic and impressive crew of actors, writers, directors and scholars to explore the representation of black characters and culture in (mostly) American horror cinema.
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Smartly, Vanessa Ruben has gathered a strong group of collaborators, a number of whom knew Tadd Dameron personally and all of whom knew his music well.
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This season of True Detective explores the figure of the cop as a permanently haunted man.
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Two highly recommended recordings by well-known artists performing some rather off-the-beaten-path repertoire.
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Bread-and-butter of the orchestral repertoire though this music may be, there was no complacency to be heard in the orchestra’s playing of it.
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Everything about Schumacher’s story indicates that clichés about the ’50s are so powerful because things really were that way: repressive, poisonous, full of unspoken secrets and blustering ignorance.
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