Review

Doc Talk: “Remake” — A Filmmaker Ponders a Career and a Life

July 30, 2026
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Documentarian Ross McElwee’s most profound film folds four decades of self-portraiture into a threnody for his son—and a meditation on memory, guilt, and cinema’s solace.

Film Review: Spider-Man vs. the Emotional Void

July 29, 2026
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The webslinger’s new outing has the cameos, the conspiracy, and the corporate logic. What it doesn’t have is heart.

Book Review: A Haunted House, Some Hard Truths

July 29, 2026
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Kelly McWilliams’s “No One Leaves the Manor” turns a haunted-house setup into a sharp, lyrical reckoning with race, class, disability, and trauma.

Festival Review: Newport Folk 2026 Finds Its Fire in Surprise, Collaboration, and Crossover

July 29, 2026
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From Tom Morello’s searing set to CMAT’s breakout turn and Dave Matthews’ final-set detour, the festival kept its focus on music that opened outward rather than looking back.

Film Review: Alex Cox’s “Dead Souls” Recasts Gogol as a Spaghetti Western Fever Dream

July 28, 2026
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The punk auteur’s late-career swan song is ragged, witty, and politically sharpened, though not always as cohesive as its ambitions.

Film Review: The Pickleball Blues, Lightly Served

July 27, 2026
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“The Dink” turns pickleball rivalries into an easygoing comedy about aging, ego, and unexpected connection.

Theater Review: Amid a Smokey Haze, Double Edge Theatre Delivers an Inspirational Warning

July 25, 2026
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Double Edge Theatre revives its 2015 roaming spectacle of ecological grief, political resistance, and communal art.

Book Review: A Turn Toward the Slight by Daniel Mason

July 24, 2026
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Daniel Mason’s latest novel trades the ambition of “North Woods” for a lighter, self-satisfied satire of intellectual life.

Concert Review: Billy Strings Balances Precision and Firepower in Boston

July 23, 2026
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At Agganis Arena, the guitarist led a genre-spanning set from tight harmonies to deep-space jams.

Doc Talk: Two Films about Time, Diminishment, and Redemption at the Woods Hole Film Festival

July 22, 2026
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Director Robb Moss’s latest revisits countercultural lives in later years, while “Amazing Live Sea Monkeys” probes a bizarre empire shadowed by exploitation and extremism.

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