Review

Visual Arts: Simon Fujiwara at Harvard’s Carpenter Center — A Canny, Wildly Funny Lens on Modern Ideas

November 2, 2014
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Simon Fujiwara epitomizes the new model of a successful avant-garde artist in the world today.

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Film Review: “Hoax_Canular” — Teen Prophets Turn to YouTube to Warn of Doomsday

November 1, 2014
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Hoax_Canular contains many troubling glimpses into private worlds, intimate visions of radical insecurity that are baffling, frightening, and flat-out bizarre.

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Film Review: “Nightcrawler” — A Dark Parody of Getting Ahead

October 31, 2014
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Nightcrawler is a vicious satire of the high stakes required to survive in an American free enterprise system where losers are kicked to the curb and winners take all.

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Fuse Film Review: “Listen Up Philip” — Portrait of the Artist as Sheer Ego

October 31, 2014
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Despite Philip’s self-absorbed claptrap, young, successful women seem to be drawn to him. Go figure.

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Theater Review: “Hedda Gabler” at the Gamm Theatre — Not Subtle, But Lively

October 31, 2014
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Despite some awkward staging decisions and the script tampering, there is plenty of lively drive in this production of Hedda Gabler.

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Theater Review: “Bad Jews” — Lots of Sound and Fury

October 31, 2014
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The play’s lead characters – representing polar opposites, cultural versus religious Judaism – ultimately exhaust one another, and us.

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Book Review: “The Zone of Interest” — Not Quite Interesting Enough

October 30, 2014
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Martin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.

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Film Review: “Unorthodox” — A Mixed Bag at the Arlington International Film Festival

October 29, 2014
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Unorthodox teases the audience with the come-on that it will be a highly unusual documentary about religion and individual transformation..

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Dance Review: Pilobolus Provides Plenty of Joie de Vivre at Citi Shubert Theatre

October 29, 2014
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An evening with Pilobolus is among the most viewer-friendly of dance experiences.

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Theater Review: Beneath the “Ether Dome”

October 28, 2014
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Ether Dome is nothing if not ironic: a dire need for relief generates a mess of pain.

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