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Film Review: “The Ghost of Peter Sellers” — A Riveting Postmortem

May 24, 2020
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The documentary has a “why me?” element to it, with a dark comic edge, but it isn’t a pity party.

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Film Review: The Karate Kid — A Preteen Rumble

June 25, 2010
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The remake follows the same plot as the 1984 original, but the new version is more like watching a bunch of twelve-year-old kids in a steel cage death match. Reviewed by Tom Samph In a time when baby-faced Michael Cera and whiny John Mayer are cultural icons, Americans still can’t get enough blood and guts.…

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Film Festival Reviews: TIFF 2023 — In School, On the Streets, and In the Woods

September 19, 2023
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Reviews of three dark films that probe the crisis of authority, immigration, and feminism in Europe

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Film Review: Powerful Testimony from Mexico — “I Am No Longer Here” and “Identifying Features”

January 30, 2021
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What do these young Mexican filmmakers want? For us to bear witness.

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Book Review: The Fiction of Norway’s Per Petterson — The Early Bonds That Bind

May 19, 2015
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I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.

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Music Preview: John McLaughlin on Shakti’s 50th-Anniversary Tour

August 11, 2023
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John McLaughlin says that even if audiences haven’t heard Indian music before, they are catching on. “They feel what we feel,” he says. “We’re all walking the tightrope, and audiences follow.”

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Music Commentary: Help Make “Roadrunner” the Official Rock Song of Massachusetts

May 30, 2014
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Bay Staters, be warned – we are living in a state without an official rock song. Luckily, if we pitch in, we can help the government solve this problem.

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Book Review: “The Unsuitable” — A Super Female Superego

June 15, 2020
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The text is littered with accusatory, staccato lines from mama Wince, whose conversations with her daughter achieve Carrie-esque arias of passive aggressiveness.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Industry” — The Dramatic Stakes are Rising in the Third Season

September 9, 2024
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HBO’s “Industry” is an intense and highly intelligent series that just seems to keep getting better and better.

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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.

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