Review
Not many movies try to wring poignancy out of a distraught man standing in a field, shouting his anguish to the sky, while holding two severed limbs.
Read MoreWhether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.
Read MoreSimon Schama just can’t stop going on about religion and the extra-special Jewish feel for beauty that has, to his mind, kept Judaism vibrant and intact through the ages.
Read MoreAdeptly directed by Roger Michell, “Le Week-End” soars because of its glorious leads.
Read MoreThe culture of American fiction is never as neatly defined as books like “MFA vs NYC” make it out to be.
Read MoreI do not remember disliking the characters in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” as much as I did in this production.
Read MoreFor at least the last decade, the LAPO has set the bar in creative programming, commissioning new works, and integrating itself into its community.
Read MoreCentered on the acting talents of the late Tuncel Kurtiz, the film is a ribald, engaging, and briskly-paced concoction of improvisation and folklore.
Read MoreAlthough 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.
Read MoreThe 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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