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Doc Talk: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — One of the Strongholds for the First Amendment

September 24, 2025
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As other outlets for reporting and investigating the truth are persecuted or succumb to pressure, the role of independent documentary filmmaking grows more urgent and vital.

Film Review: “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” — Respecting a Child’s Sense of Wonder

July 5, 2022
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a work of depth as well as inspired silliness, structured with moments of quiet contemplation in between the laughs.

Stage Interview: Turf Wars — “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Clybourne Park”

March 10, 2013
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“Clybourne Park” was expressly written to be in conversation with Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” The former gives us a new perspective — actually new perspectives — on the latter.

Theater Commentary: The Boston Theater Critics Association — Finally Reached a Conclusion?

June 1, 2020
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The Boston Theater Critics Association should take action in support of #MeToo. But this will probably be the last year I request that Israel Horovitz’s Elliot Norton Prize be withdrawn.

Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2022

December 16, 2022
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Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 23

February 23, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Film Commentary: Submitting to “The Master”

October 8, 2012
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Director Paul Thomas Anderson doesn’t provide answers nor does he pose questions: the ambiguity of his characters and his confounding storytelling style are what drive “The Master.”

Film Review: “Boys Go to Jupiter” — The Florida Project

September 4, 2025
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It’s up to us to champion films like “Boys Go to Jupiter,” which push the medium into exciting new territory when AI slop is literally banging at the door.

Fuse Theater Review: “Knock! The Daniil Kharms Project” — Absurdity Knocked About

October 7, 2014
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Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to–the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.

Visual Arts: Chopped liver at Woburn Abbey

April 4, 2012
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The world press has announced that a painting of an old man in Woburn Abbey, England, has been newly discovered to be an authentic Rembrandt. Gary Schwartz is incensed that the abbey is practicing such flagrant spin, and that the press feeds it to us so uncritically.

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