Review
A movie about an amateur theater company’s production of a classic play taps into the universal truth of irremediable and ineluctable loss. And there isn’t a dry eye in the house.
Read More
This musical succeeds, at least in part, because it dares to shine a light on parts of our lives that we don’t like to talk about.
Read More
In truth, recordings don’t capture the Naughtons’ symbiotic flair — the performance at Rockport revealed them not only to be a superb piano duo, but a significant cut above.
Read More
Four films at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival shared the theme of face-to-face communication, exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of encounters unmediated by screens and phones.
Read More
This world-premiere recording lets us hear one of the most effective recent operas, based on the famous book by Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Read More
Two standouts at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: “Bikechess” and “Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger”.
Read More
Here are films I’ve most loved watching the late Donald Sutherland in over the years.
Read More
A 1968 book of photos and interviews on a motorcycle club makes a fictionalized transition to the screen.
Read More
California beach culture didn’t spring full blown from the ocean riding a longboard, but the closest you will come to a founding figure is the legendary native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku.
Read More
What seems remarkable here is the way that trumpeter Tomasz Stanko enters into unplanned conversational interchanges, including flickers of wit, with the other members of the quartet.
Read More
The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues