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There’s no question the Beatles come out of John Higgs’ superb book Love and Let Die looking far better than James Bond. Love tends to play better than death and it’s easier to root for working class underdogs than Establishment snobs.
Read More“Avatar” is beautiful and otherworldly, but the film is so grounded in down-to-earth concepts that it restricts the viewer’s imagination rather than broadening it. An infinitely better and more complex recent space opera, “Mass Effect 2,” comes in the form of a video game. Is it art? Yes. By Justin Marble Over the centuries the…
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This thoughtful study offers a worthwhile critical perspective on Werner Herzog, one of the world’s great living film artists.
Writer-director Sean Durkin’s engrossing biopic goes a far piece toward showing the dark side of this tale of patriarchal authority and its abuse under the cover of an all-American, clean-living, unassailable family of heroes.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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Two Californias is full of humor, good writing, and thoughtful angles on human existence—with zombies thrown in for good measure.
Read Moreby Gary Schwartz A few months ago a good friend, someone whose judgment I could not respect more highly, asked me to help convince the Rijksmuseum not to give Damien Hirst the run of the place with his exhibition “For the love of God.” She was understandably incensed by the whole business. That the cast…
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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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“Art is anything you can get away with,” said Marshall McLuhan. Three films that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival suggest that he was right.
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For those seeking adventure away from cookie-cutter arena rock, Phish still fit the bill.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025