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Theater Review: “Crack” — A Theatrical Meditation on Love, Mental Illness, and Modernity

November 7, 2014
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Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.

Movie Review: Inscrutable “Interstellar” — All You Need Is Love?

November 6, 2014
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I don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.

Book Review: The Story of the ‘Hand Grenade’ — Emmanuel Carrère’s Biography of the Russian Writer Eduard Limonov

November 5, 2014
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A compelling chronicle of the life of the notorious Russian writer and political activist Eduard Limonov.

Concert Review: Pianist Richard Goode’s Sublime Beethoven Sonatas

November 4, 2014
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Pianist Richard Goode provided everything that is asked of a Beethoven master: color, infinite shadings, interesting, convincing tempi, and soul.

Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake” – A Reverent Visit into the World of Renaissance European Fairy Tale

November 4, 2014
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If you know Swan Lake, there will be few structural surprises. Girl turned into swan, prince falls in love, prince gets fooled, they both feel really terrible, and die.

Book Review: “Stealing All Transmissions” — How The Clash Conquered America

November 3, 2014
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Stealing All Transmissions is slim, but nearly every page is filled with insight and originality.

Visual Arts: Simon Fujiwara at Harvard’s Carpenter Center — A Canny, Wildly Funny Lens on Modern Ideas

November 2, 2014
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Simon Fujiwara epitomizes the new model of a successful avant-garde artist in the world today.

Film Review: “Hoax_Canular” — Teen Prophets Turn to YouTube to Warn of Doomsday

November 1, 2014
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Hoax_Canular contains many troubling glimpses into private worlds, intimate visions of radical insecurity that are baffling, frightening, and flat-out bizarre.

Film Review: “Nightcrawler” — A Dark Parody of Getting Ahead

October 31, 2014
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Nightcrawler is a vicious satire of the high stakes required to survive in an American free enterprise system where losers are kicked to the curb and winners take all.

Fuse Film Review: “Listen Up Philip” — Portrait of the Artist as Sheer Ego

October 31, 2014
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Despite Philip’s self-absorbed claptrap, young, successful women seem to be drawn to him. Go figure.

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