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Film Review: A Brilliant, Anguished “Le Week-End”

March 29, 2014
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Adeptly directed by Roger Michell, “Le Week-End” soars because of its glorious leads.

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Book Review: “MFA vs NYC” — There Are Worlds Elsewhere

March 28, 2014
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The culture of American fiction is never as neatly defined as books like “MFA vs NYC” make it out to be.

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Theater Review: A Languid “Seagull” at the Huntington Theatre Company

March 27, 2014
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I do not remember disliking the characters in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” as much as I did in this production.

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Concert Review: A Gripping Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall

March 25, 2014
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For at least the last decade, the LAPO has set the bar in creative programming, commissioning new works, and integrating itself into its community.

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Film Review: “Tales of Intransigence” — A Ribald Road Movie at the Boston Turkish Film Festival

March 23, 2014
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Centered on the acting talents of the late Tuncel Kurtiz, the film is a ribald, engaging, and briskly-paced concoction of improvisation and folklore.

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Film Review: Jason Bateman’s “Bad Words” — The Spelling Bee, Comically Deconstructed

March 22, 2014
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Although rather shallow in its characterizations, “Bad Words” makes up for this deficiency in its rollicking, R-rated demolition of a familiar character-building institution: the spelling bee.

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Fuse Television Review: HBO’s “Doll & Em” — A Show Biz Satire That Loses Its Mojo

March 21, 2014
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The first few episodes of HBO’s “Doll & Em” operate as a fairly funny show-biz satire, but then the series takes a nosedive into turgid melodrama.

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Film Review: Lars Von Trier’s Nifty “Nymphomaniac: Volume 1”

March 20, 2014
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What makes Lars von Trier one of cinema’s most fascinating directors? It is his willingness to pull out the stops in a riotous search to understand his own mind and ask questions about human nature. His films are a quest to find himself.

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Theater Review: Beached in the Living Room — “The Whale”

March 19, 2014
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Unlike much of what comes through the new play development pipeline, “The Whale” proffers a coherent narrative structure — the result is a well-crafted, somewhat edgy, domestic tragedy.

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Book Review: Little Lamb, Who Tried to Kill Thee? — Exploring the Story of Abraham and Isaac

March 19, 2014
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In the superb “But where is the lamb?,” James Goodman takes up the numerous ramifications, moral and otherwise, of God’s chilling command to sacrifice Isaac and Abraham’s — perhaps more chilling — acquiescence.

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