Review

Book Review: “Movie Freak” — A Critic Who Doesn’t Hold Back

April 13, 2016
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If Owen Gleiberman has any complaint against today’s world of criticism it’s that everyone seems to be speaking in one voice.

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Fuse Concert Review: Mozart and Beethoven from the Handel & Haydn Society

April 12, 2016
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Working within the forms perfected by Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven early compositions managed to say some things that remain compelling to hear.

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Theater Review: “Can You Forgive Her?” — Not Really

April 12, 2016
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Gina Gionfriddo’s would-be black comedy about the American worship of money and status is a misfire on all levels.

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Film Review: “Demolition” — Destruction Made Fascinating

April 11, 2016
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Demolition eschews the conventional, spinning its way to a completely unforeseen yet beautifully apt conclusion.

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Dance Review: Redefining Bling

April 11, 2016
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The dancers in Yanira Castro’s company, a canary torsi, learned historically correct period movements.

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Book Review: Stories by Korean Women — Sad Brilliant Inventions

April 10, 2016
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What could have been excursions into monochromatic despair are elevated, through resourceful inventiveness, into exhilarating journeys.

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Film Review: “The Dying of the Light” — Cinema’s Fading Glory

April 8, 2016
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While there are some folks younger than 30 who are eagerly learning this dying art, most of the projectionists are what we could sadly call a dying breed.

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Theater Review: “Arcadia” – Winding the World Up … And Down

April 8, 2016
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Director Lee Mikeska Gardner has put together a dazzling production that matches Tom Stoppard’s dazzling script.

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Book Review: Christopher Hitchens — Final Stings From the Gadfly

April 8, 2016
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These pieces could have been written yesterday, which speaks volumes about the eternal recurrence of the moronic inferno of the political.

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Film Review: “Everybody Wants Some!” — Richard Linklater’s Remembrance of Teams Past

April 6, 2016
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I was finally won over in the last act, when Everybody Wants Some! turns a little emotional, a little “girly.”

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