Review
The unimportance of being too earnest.
Read MoreThe Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.
Read MoreThe ASP’s superb production of The Winter’s Tale provides a unusually deft fusion of tragedy and comedy.
Read MoreThe Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s richly textured love letter to B movies.
Read MoreIn contrast to similar extermination-camp memoirs, But You Did Not Come Back focuses on the affliction of women.
Read MoreWho would have guessed that a hunk of War and Peace could be such an enormous amount of fun?
Read MoreBoston’s visual art ethos has been painfully safe and systemically non-experimental. Thankfully, that is beginning to change.
Read MoreThis is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.
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Film Commentary: Blink a Bright Red and Green — “Carol’’’s Holiday Charm
A guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).
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