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Landline is a textured, often funny and subtly acted portrait of a family experiencing rumblings set off by sexual affairs.
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In Claire Keegan’s fiction, each sentence matters and each, sometimes very ordinary, action has real consequences.
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Writer-director Michael Pearce’s debut feature is self-assured and finely-wrought.
Read MoreAminatta Forna has given us a novel that belies its modest premise, a book about how the human mind protects itself by not knowing, yet sometimes, due to unexpected circumstances, comes to terms with what it thought it could not.
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A lot goes on in an epic — three acts over three hours with two intermissions — and there’s boatloads for Kate Hamill to dramatize and for the audience to digest.
Read More[Updated]Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!
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As we wait for our vaccine shots, here’s some superior films that will make standing by more pleasurable.
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Billy Strings injects some contemporary vibes into Me/And/Dad, but this is first and foremost a back-to-the-roots album.
Read MoreBy Justin Marble March 2–4: “Children of Invention” at the Brattle: Young filmmaker Tze Chun’s first feature was shot on location in Boston and focuses on a single mother with two small children struggling to make ends meet. When she doesn’t return home one night from her con-artist-esque job, it falls to the older brother…
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Book Review: “The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon” — A New Chapter in the American Story?
What a cruel hoax: the middle class suburban lifestyle, a proud achievement of postwar America and the envy of peoples throughout the world (in no small part due to Mad Men glamorization), contains the very seeds of our demise. If demise is where this is heading.
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