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Jazz CD Review: Harold López-Nussa — Rhythms Charming and Churning

June 30, 2018
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Pianist Harold López-Nussa is his own bold and expressive rhythm section.

CD Review: Green Day’s “Revolution Radio” – Not Very Radical

October 15, 2016
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Green Day’s latest offering is a largely unoriginal, imitative hodgepodge.

Film Festival Review Round-Up: Provincetown 2023

June 22, 2023
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I could sense a bit of the downfall of indie narrative cinema at last week’s 25th Provincetown Film Festival, but luckily the spirited programmers dug deeper and worked harder to locate worthwhile cinema.

Book Commentary: Literary Legacies — Children’s Literature

April 10, 2021
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2020 and 2021 saw the deaths of five titans of children’s and young adult literature. Here’s to revisiting old “classics” and discovering new ones.

Film Reviews: NY Film Festival Closes — Theater on the Screen

October 12, 2021
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Two divergent works of theater for the screen were at this year’s NYFF, an adaptation of Macbeth in black and white, and a raunchy sleeper from Romania.

Book Review: An Informative Tour of Randy Revolutionary Times

April 30, 2014
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This book is a valuable reminder that “the men associated with an era of supposed morality and Christian values of monogamy and marriage have nearly all been linked to infidelity and sex outside of wedlock.”

Book Review: Paolo Giordano’s “Tasmania” — A Brilliant Novel about Being Blinded by Personal Catastrophes

October 1, 2024
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An absorbing novel that builds steadily, not to a shattering or violent conclusion (all the violence is in the past or offstage) but to a quiet release that is humane and persuasive.

Film Review: “In the Company of Rose” — The Rich Life of Rose Styron

June 30, 2023
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James Lapine’s charming documentary explores the life of Rose Styron, who at the age of 96 still reigns as the undisputed queen of “The Vineyard,” as she calls it.

Film Review: Claire Denis’s Furious “Both Sides of the Blade” — Electricity Run Amok

July 5, 2022
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In a world riven by war and flirting with Armageddon you’d be forgiven for wondering how the microcosmic hothouse of Fire could command your attention. The answer: director Claire Denis’s artistry.

Film Review: A Pair of “Suspirias” Square off at The Brattle Theater

March 8, 2019
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Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is a landscape of the shadowy feminine, steeped in ancient magic, willful evil, and the cyclical round-de-lay of death and rebirth.

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