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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.

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..

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.

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.

Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett” — Castings

October 28, 2014
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Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?

Concert Review: New England Philharmonic’s “Shall We Dance?”

October 27, 2014
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Quibbles about some characteristics of the new pieces aside, hats off to Richard Pittman and the New England Philharmonic for daring to present a program like this..

Theater Review: “A Disappearing Number” — An Encounter With Mathematical Wonder

October 27, 2014
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A Disappearing Number combines mathematics and drama in ways that will enthrall some, overwhelm others, and puzzle the rest.

Film Review: “The Class of ’92” — An Excellent Documentary on Six Young Men and the Miracle Years of Manchester United

October 27, 2014
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Filmmakers Ben and Gabe Turner also successfully place the story of Manchester United’s rise in the larger context of what was happening in Great Britain at the time.

Film Review: “The Irish Pub” — A Too Polite Homage to the Old-fashioned Gaelic tavern

October 26, 2014
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So what’s the verdict on The Irish Pub? A well-meaning film, but lacking in excitement.

Theater Review: “Much Ado About” Sexting and Social Media

October 25, 2014
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This staging of Much Ado About Nothing would make an excellent ice-breaker for a discussion between adolescents and adults about sexting

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