Review

Film Review: “The Choice” — Nothing to Hang Your Heart On

February 8, 2016
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Clear some room on the mantle of cinematic disgrace for The Choice, an utterly drippy romance.

Theater Review: “Milk Like Sugar” — Vivid Snapshots of Confused Lives

February 8, 2016
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Milk Like Sugar cries out for dialogue and confrontations that direct us deeper into the conflicts the young women face.

Film Review: “The Lady in the Van” — Distilled Alan Bennett

February 8, 2016
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The Lady in the Van is quite enjoyable, but has a significant flaw.

Theater Review: “The Convert” — A Zimbabwean Tragedy

February 6, 2016
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The Convert is a complex historical drama that shows us individuals crushed among powerful contradictions.

Theater Review: “An Octoroon” — Racist Melodrama, Post-Modern Version

February 5, 2016
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Company One’s actors are top notch and they expertly serve the production’s antiquated style of non-realistic acting.

Jazz Review: Pianist Kenny Werner — Teaching “Effortless Mastery”

February 4, 2016
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“The problem is that more people get lost going to music school than get found.”

Fuse Book Review: Taking God On — Atheists Should Come Out Fighting

February 2, 2016
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Fighting God is logically argued, lucid, and makes a powerful case for a more secular nation.

Concert Review: The Bard in Boston – Part 1

February 2, 2016
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This season’s three-week commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – the first such thematic series of Andris Nelsons’ BSO directorship – go off to a compelling start.

Fuse Concert Review: A Match Made in Heaven — A Far Cry and Blue Heron

February 1, 2016
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I look forward to more collaborations between these two ensembles, who were born to make, as they say, really beautiful music together.

Book Review: “Les Diaboliques” — An Essential Hidden Dimension in French Literature

January 31, 2016
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In “Les Diaboliques” readers must expect quite a lot of crime and some misogyny as well.

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