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Visual Arts Review: “The Art of Looking” — The Evolution of Harvard’s Art History Department

February 15, 2025
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The show may be a case of inside baseball, appealing to a small group of art history majors and museum lovers. But it offers a fascinating look at innovation at one of the country’s most revered, and most traditional, colleges.

Film Review: “Captain America: Brave New World” – ‘Tis New to Thee?

February 14, 2025
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“Captain America: Brave New World,” which is loaded with potential for drama and commentary, has less weight and punch than a butterfly’s fart.

Film Review: “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” — Cheesy But Satisfying

February 14, 2025
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Yes, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” is a cheesy, predictable rom-com. But it doesn’t try to be anything that it’s not.

Book Review: “Fine” — Lad Lit That’s Keenly Aware of the Human Condition and Its Afflictions

February 14, 2025
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John Patrick Higgins is a deft writer whose prose often displays a spare lyricism. 

Film Festival Reviews: Sundance Fest 3 — Ukrainian War, Alabama Prisons and Assisted Suicide

February 13, 2025
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Films can transform the way that their subjects are seen, sometimes by just making a subject visible. That was the case with three films which were among the best that I saw at Sundance this year.

Television Review: “Cassandra” — Machine Mom

February 13, 2025
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Cassandra is yet another critique of AI, but it’s also a provocative commentary on motherhood.

Classical Music Album Review: Traversing Foreign Landscapes — Lei Liang’s “Dui”

February 13, 2025
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Chinese-American composer Lei Liang’s eclectic collection of ten thematic tracks could pass as a soundtrack to an artistic, surrealist film or an intense, psychological drama.

Book Review: “John Lewis: A Life” — A Sense of Intimacy

February 13, 2025
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David Greenberg has brought to life not only one unusual man but also the tumultuous racial history of our country in the second half of the 20th century and into the early years of the 21st century.

Doc Talk: Stranger Than (Science) Fiction at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

February 11, 2025
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A pair of documentaries challenge the fantasies in the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

Film Festival Reviews: Sundance 2 – Sly Stone, A Left-Leaning Israeli Comedian, and Teen Journalism 

February 10, 2025
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A trio of documentaries: one explores an under-recognized Black musician, while the other two focus on a leftist Israeli comedian and crusading teen journalists.

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