Review
Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously.
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The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.
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The enthusiastic spirit of “Lost Soulz” is appealing enough to make what feels like two different types of movies sutured together dramatically satisfying.
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It is hard to think of a moment in the last 100 years when Käthe Kollwitz’s work has been more timely.
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What could have gone terribly wrong goes terrifically right in the hands of this creative team, culminating in a convergence of the life, the oeuvre, and our protagonist’s encroaching agony.
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French opera arias, many recorded for the first time, by the enchanting tenor Cyrille Dubois. The vocal treasures here include a stirring 1842 denunciation of slavery in the Caribbean.
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Witty, varied, played warmly and arranged dexterously, avoiding the glum, the explorations on “A Second Life” should please just about every jazz fan.
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There’s no question that either the violinist or the orchestra are completely at home with Julia Perry’s larger style or the notes: this is about as confident and secure a first recording as they come.
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The graphics in “The Warehouse” provide clear explanations of a grim reality. The U.S. leads the world at incarcerating its citizens.
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Book Review: “Freeman’s Challenge” — Essential Reading on Prisons, Slavery, and Profit
The prison was the first in the nation specifically designed to generate a profit for everybody but the laborers.
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