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Book Review: “Manhattan Beach” — Taking a Deep Dive

December 26, 2017
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Manhattan Beach feels acutely relevant despite being set in the past.

Book Review: “Best Food Writing 2017” — Sampling the Annual Epicurean Written Feast

December 26, 2017
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Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.

Film Feature: Best and Most Overrated Movies of 2017

December 24, 2017
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Our demanding critics choose the best (most disappointing) films of the year.

Visual Arts Review: A Study in Contrast — Two Museums in Lisbon

December 24, 2017
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These institutions visually and physically reflected Portuguese art and culture.

Film Review: “I, Tonya” — Grit and Glamour on Ice

December 23, 2017
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Moviegoers who haven’t thought about Tonya Harding in years may find themselves wondering if they may have judged her too harshly.

Film Review: The Ever-present Nostalgia of Woody Allen

December 22, 2017
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If you can accept yet another tour around a love triangle, Wonder Wheel is generally engaging and nearly always entertaining.

Theater Review: Bedlam’s “Sense & Sensibility” — Theatrical Nirvana

December 21, 2017
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All of the pieces – and some of them are quite odd and incongruent – come together in Sense & Sensibility to become one.

Film Review: “Chasing Trane” — Telling the Story of a Jazz Legend

December 20, 2017
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This documentary about John Coltrane serves up skillful, sensitive storytelling and an appropriate sense of reverence.

Classical CD Reviews: Matthias Goerne’s “The Wagner Project” and Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand

December 20, 2017
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Matthias Goerne offers proof that he is the Wagner baritone of the day. And Thierry Fischer’s understanding of Mahler deserves our admiration.

Television Review: “Wormwood” — Errol Morris’ Brilliant Bricolage

December 20, 2017
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Wormwood is full of secrets, some revealed, some tantalizingly unknowable.

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