Review
It is Kristen Wiig’s committed performance, along with director Shira Piven’s skill at comic timing, that grounds the satiric comedy’s absurd premise.
À la Vie, screening as part of the 18th Annual Jewish Film Festival, is easily the best film I have seen so far this year.
Radius Ensemble’s final performance of the season touched on examples of musical fantasy, worldly angst, and spiritual transcendence.
I wondered why the Elders Ensemble program so consistently portrayed the elders as somber and withdrawn.
Both of these entries in Jewishfilm 2015 have their entertaining moments, but the movies ultimately fail to deliver.
Ronan Noone’s allegedly frisky sex farce is bloodless.
Peter Gizzi is a master at allowing his poetic language to summon its own range of meanings, rather than blatantly declaring them to the reader.
The Grand Parade is a truly sumptuous feast of imagination, color, emotion and movement; a uniquely dramatic way of interpreting our history as a torrent of events presented without judgment.
The three choreographers used the streams of sound as an opportunity to provide floods of movement challenges to the terrific dancers of the company.
Lambert & Stamp will resonate with musicians who have experienced the volatile give-and-take that is needed to sustain and nurture a rock and roll band.
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