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Father’s Day Feature: My Father the Former Communist

June 17, 2018
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Having a father in prison meant radical changes in our everyday lives.

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Film Review: “All We Imagine As Light” — A Gritty and Graceful Look at Life in Mumbai

January 2, 2025
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“All We Imagine As Light” is an absorbing celebration of female friendship.

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Visual Arts Feature: Smart Art Museums

February 27, 2007
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Boston-area college art museums go where many mainstream exhibition spaces fear to tread. By Margaret Weigel Originally Published February 07, 2006 Boston, MA – Throw a stone in Boston and you’ll hit a college (or an undergraduate); throw it a little further, and you’ll likely hit a college gallery or museum. The Boston metropolitan area…

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Theater Review: “Solitaire Suite” — Strange Things Flashing in the Night

February 22, 2021
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The show is made all the more powerful by the fact that we’ve now spent 12 months enduring Covid and four years of science denial and “alternative facts.”

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Coming Attractions: July 20 Through August 4 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 20, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

October 3, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Film Review: “Terra Femme” — Only Connect…

November 3, 2021
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Collectively, Terra Femme’s footage provides a window — or really, a suite of windows — that allows us to view a bygone world through the eyes of silent female gazers.

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Film Review: “Finding Kukan” at the BAAFF — A Compelling Detective Story

October 19, 2017
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Finding Kukan is a compelling detective story covering the fields of World War II history and film preservation.

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Dance/Movie Review: The Passing Parade — A Film about the Joffrey Ballet

May 10, 2012
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The new documentary, derails, partly because its hagiographic tone encourages elisions that beg important questions.

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Book Review: “My Affair with Art House Cinema” — Still Hot and Heavy

December 2, 2024
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It’s hard to imagine anyone connected with the movie world who is not appreciative of  Phillip Lopate for the grace and intelligence and knowledge he has brought to film criticism.

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