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Film Review: “Claire’s Camera” — An Engaging Escapade from a Major Director

April 13, 2018
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Claire’s Camera is enjoyable and charming, but it’s definitely minor Hong, made on a lark at Cannes.

TV/Film Review: “Paterno” — Acts of Dishonor

April 12, 2018
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What we want is for Al Pacino to convey something deeper, something illuminating about the fall of the hero from the highest reaches of the gods.

Visual Arts Review: The Art of Celia Paul — The Power of Quiet

April 10, 2018
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Celia Paul’s paintings are calm, reflective, and inviting.

Commentary: Once More, Back to the Little Shop of Horovitz

April 10, 2018
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The strategic silences in the Boston Globe’s piece on the legacy of Israel Horovitz are disturbing.

Book Review: “No Way Home” — A Memoir with Quirk and Heft

April 10, 2018
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No Way Home is a model for how to tell a weird, complicated story in a way that will make the reader hang on tight for the whole ride.

Concert Review: Handel & Haydn Society Plays Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”

April 9, 2018
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A thoroughly charismatic Fairy Queen from start to finish, well-prepared, fulgently delivered, and received by a packed house with well-earned warmth.

Book Review: “Pandora’s Box” — An Illuminating Study of Epic Destruction

April 9, 2018
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Pandora’s Box never tosses the reader into a roiling overload of facts and figures, but looks at the horrors of WWI from many different, illuminating angles.

Theater Review: “The Niceties” — A Gentle Slap Awake?

April 9, 2018
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The Niceties gives us an invaluable opportunity to hover outside of the current political debate about race and American history.

Jazz CD Review: Edward Simon’s “Sorrows & Triumphs”

April 7, 2018
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One doesn’t have to have gone too deeply into Buddhism to recognize its influence on the titles found here, and perhaps on the music as well.

Coming Attractions: April 8 through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 6, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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