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The Dig is suffused with a very English (and problematic) sense of history: why it matters, how it can be taken for granted, and the odd way that certain elements of the past are valorized while others are kept buried.
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This film offers a much more nuanced and self-reflective conversation about authorship, authenticity, creative inspiration, and the role of film criticism than any of its detractors are willing to admit.
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Defiant and tonally offbeat, French Exit mirrors, in a sense, its female protagonist, who doesn’t give a damn what the world thinks of her.
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Sundance’s strengths for me this year (as in the past) were the festival’s documentaries.
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What will the response be to this innovative marriage of Zoom theater and video gaming? Some viewers will welcome the mash-up, others will not.
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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel makes for a gripping watch, one of Netflix’s finest true crime documentary series.
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Few writers can generate as much tension in so few pages as Pamela Painter.
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“Everybody in this industry right now is looking for like, female beards to rescue them, but that’s not what we’re here for.”
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Art and Faith should be widely read — its delightful wisdom and clarity underlines our culture’s desperate need to make things new.
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There are some smartly colored and well-handled performances here, but it’s hard to get past the recording’s unsatisfactory acoustics.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler