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Book Review: “The Water-Babies” — A Darwinian Fairy Tale by an Eccentric’s Eccentric

January 30, 2015
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Why is The Water-Babies a classic fairy tale? It doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet it doesn’t ignore important issues.

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Film Review: “Mommy” — Motherhood at Hurricane Force

January 29, 2015
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Xavier Dolan’s up-close look at a mother-son relationship has the intensity of a John Cassavetes film — it can be gut-wrenching to watch.

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Book Review: “Silver Screen Fiend” — A Remembrance of Movie Madness Past

January 29, 2015
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Why did Patton Oswalt submit himself, for a time, to drowning in movies? I never quite understood that..

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Visual Arts Review: Otto Piene’s Artistic Legacy — x 2

January 28, 2015
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Otto Piene’s art is at once appealing, accessible, and yet somehow unworldly: joyful mystery yoked to dynamic playfulness.

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Book Review: Benito Pérez Galdós’s “Tristana” — Liberation, Though Off-Kilter

January 27, 2015
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Tristana is Ibsen’s Doll’s House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.

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Film Review: “American Sniper” — Keep Telling Yourself … It’s Only a Movie

January 27, 2015
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American Sniper is classic Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry vs the bad guys, and the bad guys all look like ‘them.’

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Fuse Book Review: The Subdued Yearning of “Guys Like Me” — The Sad-Droll Prose of Dominique Fabre

January 26, 2015
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Very little happens in Dominique Fabre’s books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.

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Film Review: “Inherent Vice” — Like an Acid Trip, Secondhand

January 25, 2015
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Inherent Vice is a giddy, trippy potpourri that tries to make a virtue of never quite settling on what kind of story it wants to tell.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 25, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, dance, author events, and theater for the coming week.

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Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA

January 24, 2015
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Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.

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