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“Sirāt” is a heart-stopping, surreal reflection of our contemporary moment.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Steve Reich’s 1976 minimalist masterpiece, performed by Ensemble Signal, was a special event to see and hear live.
“Deepfaking Sam Altman” is an entertaining, off-beat deep dive into the hands-on tech needed to generate deepfakes. It also sounds the alarm about the growing imitative power of AI.
Director Baz Luhrmann’s exhilarating documentary-concert film gives us Elvis in his prime.
Admiring looks at a wealth of illuminating documentaries in this year’s gathering.
In this episode, Elizabeth Howard speaks with Oarabile Ditsele, a South African actor, filmmaker, writer, and multidisciplinary creative artist.
Disrepair is the leitmotif. The atmosphere throughout is dark and gray, tinting a sadness that to the narrator seems to be inexpressible.
What Allegra Goodman’s stories serve up could be called a vision of Jewish American Life Lite.
The ratio between fantasy and real life felt off in this uneven film version of Kander and Ebb’s 1990 musical.
Classical Music Commentary: Boston’s Lost Opportunity — How the BSO Board Chose Charles Munch over Leonard Bernstein