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Film Review: “Tehran Taboo” — Mesmerizing Animation

February 12, 2018
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Tehran Taboo –- which never would have been allowed to be filmed in its title city—is technically accomplished in its often gorgeous visuals and its textured sound design.

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Theater Review: “Our Class” — A Powerful Visual History Lesson

June 18, 2025
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The strongest element in this Arlekin production is the indelible stage images of loss and love, death and despair, memory and resilience, dreamed up by director Igor Golyak and his talented production team.

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Theater Review: A.R.T.’s “Romeo and Juliet” — What’s Love Got to Do With It?

September 14, 2024
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Cinematic in inspiration, Diane Paulus’s direction whips up terse bursts of adolescent energy, tapping into a cocky hunger for self-destructive combat.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Night is a Room”—Primal Bluster

November 24, 2015
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Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room’s sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.

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Film Review: “The Triplets of Belleville” – A 21st Century Animation Classic

August 21, 2018
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Sylvain Chomet’s sublime 2004 feature is a shimmering, knowing homage to the beginnings of sound animation.

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Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful” — CGI Overload on The Yellow Brick Road

March 7, 2013
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Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.

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Film Review: “Strawberry Mansion” — Strawberry Dreams Forever

February 25, 2022
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Strawberry Mansion‘s biggest asset is that it employs so many different artistic techniques to create a world as wildly inventive as it is heart-achingly sincere.

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Jazz Review: Crazy about Kaze, Satoko Fujii’s Quartet at the Lily Pad

September 3, 2013
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Satoko Fujii’s quartet could go from 0 to 100 at the drop of a hat, but only once in a while, and nearly always at the perfect time.

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Television Review: “Silicon Valley” Gets the Algorithm Right

June 6, 2014
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The creator of the series, Mike Judge, and his team have gone to great lengths to sweat the details of the corporate landscape of San Jose and its environs. Right from the start Silicon Valley rang true.

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Dance Review: KAIROS Dance Theatre’s “Husk/Vessel” — A Place where Embraces and Violence Meet

November 1, 2022
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Love, anger, frustration, hope, sadness, lullabies — they are all here through movement that is at turns elegant and awkward, nuanced and propulsive.

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