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Film Review: “Claire’s Camera” — An Engaging Escapade from a Major Director

April 13, 2018
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Claire’s Camera is enjoyable and charming, but it’s definitely minor Hong, made on a lark at Cannes.

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Theater Review: “Miss You Like Hell” — A Lukewarm Road Trip

January 16, 2019
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This is yet another sentimental exercise in the mechanics of mother/daughter rapprochement

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Book Review: “The Woman Who Lost Her Soul” — A Lengthy Tale of Innocence Betrayed

October 21, 2013
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Despite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.

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Book Review: Target — The White House

October 21, 2004
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By Harvey Blume Nicholson Baker’s new novel is about a man obsessed with killing President Bush. Checkpoint: A Novel by Nicholson Baker. (Knopf) Nicholson Baker’s short, funny — and frequently tender — new novel consists of a conversation between Ben and Jay, high school buddies who haven’t seen each other in a few years, and…

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Film Review: “The Green Knight” – Of Vanity, and Verdigris

August 9, 2021
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Filmmaker David Lowery plumbs the depths of this ancient tale, discovering the places where the human and the otherworldly intersect, where the earthbound meets the ethereal.

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Visual Arts Review: “Matisse: The Red Studio” – A Lesson in Objects

May 9, 2022
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Making the viewer draw visual connections among Matisse’s pieces in the title painting is at the core of MoMA’s The Red Studio.

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Fuse Classical Music Preview: Worcester Chamber Music Society’s 2014-15 Season — Creative, Occasionally Offbeat

September 8, 2014
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Worcester Chamber Music Society is a top-notch chamber ensemble based in central Massachusetts, a region not exactly overflowing with resident, headline-grabbing professional classical music groups.

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Film Review: Claire Denis’s “Stars At Noon” — A Romance Novel Elevated by Auteurist Flourishes

October 2, 2022
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The action, as it were, is mostly the exhaustively filmed grappling of two beautiful people in no-star motels.

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Film Review: “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” — Invasive Procedure

July 13, 2023
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Singing the body electric in “De Humani Corporis Fabrica.”

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Fuse Movie Review: “Lincoln” — Ken Burns Does It Better

November 8, 2012
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As “Lincoln”‘s end credits roll, you feel vaguely dissatisfied and disappointed that the film never achieves the emotional greatness that it might have in the hands of a different director.

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