Review
This ambitious adaptation finds its power in images, not in the novelist’s dense and elusive language.
From exile to everyday kindness, these picture books trace how belonging is built—through resilience, community, and imagination.
Pianist Jonathan Biss and the Brentano String Quartet animated Dvořák, Haydn, and Beethoven with emotional urgency and tonal finesse.
A record crowd for genre-blurring acts, with Geese and Wednesday signaling a shift in the festival’s identity.
Denise Kiernan’s accessible book restores the often overlooked figures who shaped America’s founding.
The power of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s film stems from its deep repugnance at an acceptance of the aesthetic and moral poverty of dictatorship.
In Groton, the veteran ensemble leans into mood and understatement as its final touring year begins.
“Echoes” honors jazz tradition while slipping gracefully into a modern, oblique swing.
From Anne Packard’s irresistible presence to a polarizing slasher homage and a breakout no-budget film, this year’s roundup offered plenty of satisfactions and some surprises.
“Strange Journey” traces the origins of one of cinema’s most unlikely cults. “Time Warp” shows why it still matters.
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