Review
M. Night Shyamalan turns the trilogy topper he needed to make after Unbreakable and Split into a preposterous group therapy session.
Director A. Nora Long’s decision to collaborate with an all female-identifying design team and crew underscores her commitment to a feminist vision.
Cold War is a timeless story of romantic love, and its persistence in the face of upheaval.
Josh Begley, in a mere six minutes, demonstrates how impossible the notion of a border wall is, from an engineering and construction perspective.
Becoming is a contemporary woman’s adventure told by an intelligent, funny narrator who took a leap out of her comfort zone and came out of it, with her family intact, to tell the tale.
This is yet another sentimental exercise in the mechanics of mother/daughter rapprochement
Heartland proffers a rare combination — it is a prescient history lesson that also works dramatically.
Demanding that people pay attention to quality is about as audacious a demand you can take in our giddy culture.
In its efforts to cram so much information into so small a space, the narrative becomes unfocused.

Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”
A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).
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