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The Romanian director has crafted a grueling fable about hate, lies, and misinformation in a small Transylvanian town.
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This gaunt historical narrative examines “love and faith and the fear of God” while also taking on issues of colonialism and masculinity. For the most part, the grand scheme is pulled off.
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Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.
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This pared-down staging of Tony Kushner’s 30 year-old masterpiece invites some reflection, even a kind of nostalgia. But blazing through — with seraphic force — is the harsh reality of how insane we have become.
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Does the world really need another personal abortion story? The answer is “yes,” Pauline Harmange argues.
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Katherine Heiny has a particular talent for opening lines: “Your elderly father has mistaken his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eaten it.”
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Armed with a quarter of a billion dollars from the people who chucked him to the MAGA wolves, director James Gunn has created one of the most mean-spirited and nasty movies to have come down the pike since Straw Dogs.
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Her hope for Israel today, Zoya Cherkassky told me, is the evolution of a multi-racial society that she hopes will ensure its survival.
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger