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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.
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The volume is an ambitious balancing act: the echoes of memory meet the grit of experience, musical language interlaced with occasional thick texture, nostalgic passion counterposed to philosophical calm.
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This is a tense morality play, with twists odd enough (and a palette dark enough) to sustain a noir-inflected thriller of almost two hours.
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The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra’s recent performance supplied drama, vigor, and reflection.
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Transformative narratives shape the documentaries in the 40th annual Wicked Queer Film Festival.
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By Neil Giordano A selection of notable documentaries currently in the digital universe: Christian missionaries, high school athletics, and a trio of filmmakers who mess with Texas. A familiar story — a young man on a quixotic quest that ends in tragedy — takes a new turn in National Geographic’s The Mission (Hulu, Disney+), a…
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“Femme” proves that finessing the depiction of a toxic romance can lead to some ugly places.
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Sessanta succeeded in making “old” songs and “old” bands sound powerful, vital, and progressive.
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“There needs to be a bigger sense of community in the music world. Artists and labels and venues need to help each other out. There’s a void out there and I think Rock Garden Records is a positive new development.”
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler