Review
Cuarteto Casals brings out Mozart’s playfulness, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester delivers a solid Dvorak’s Sixth, and James Brawn continues to brilliantly play Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
Read MoreTranslator David Williams has hit upon a judicious combination of snappy repartee and dark underbelly that communicates essayist Dubravka Ugrešić’s rapier wit and black despair in equal measure.
Read MoreThroughout these superb stories, there is a certain desolation, of the heart as well as of the landscape.
Read MoreIn Third Person , the characters are so intentionally mysterious that, oddly, the surfeit of enigma denies them any depth of personality.
Read MoreJune Moon is a piece of satirical fluff with 27 characters, lots of piano playing, and a half-dozen memorable lines.
Read MoreBegin Again is a film with considerable flaws and strengths. The later include stellar performances by Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, and Hailee Steinfeld.
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Read MoreIf you can’t make the Montreal International Jazz Festival this time, put it on your bucket list.
Read MoreHis art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.
Read MoreIf drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
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