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Film Review: Dialectical “Materialists”

June 16, 2025
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Director Celine Song beats the romantic comedy to death.

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Film Reviews: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Stir-Crazy 2

April 26, 2020
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Here are five more appealing feature films and their links, handpicked to get you pleasurably through the Covid-19 days. Two need to be rented, three are free.

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Short Fuse: Drac Attack, or Why Vampirism Won’t Go Away

November 6, 2010
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Oddly, not everyone is concerned with vampires. A friend tells me he finds them overdone, ornate, weighed down with baroque bells and whistles. His vote goes to zombies. I reply that zombies are one-trick monsters. They don’t even suck, only bite. That, he says, is what he likes about them; they are stripped down, perfect…

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Visual Arts Review: “Showdown!” at the MFA — More Like Kumbaya!

August 20, 2017
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A face-off between these two artists is ridiculous because picking a favorite is pointless.

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Film Review: “Talk to Me” — Hand of Glory

July 30, 2023
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Despite the lack of background or explanation for the occult item at the center of “Talk to Me,” I found it relatively easy to suspend my disbelief and become caught up in the story’s momentum.

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Sundance Film Festival 2023, Dispatch #3: Magic Beneath the Surface

February 8, 2023
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Two horror-adjacent films at this year’s Sundance Festival — Sorcery and Animalia — were strikingly beautiful.

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Dance Review: Bill T. Jones’ “Curriculum II” — Visceral Meditations on the Intersection of Race and Technology

April 21, 2023
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 Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Curriculum II is no intellectual exercise. It is a gut-wrenching journey into the heart of darkness, offset by flashes of compassion and light.

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Movie Review: Civil War Crime and Punishment

April 23, 2011
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There is so much that could have gone right for The Conspirator that it seems such a waste that it doesn’t amount to more than it does. It’s a complicated and rich story of Civil War vengeance versus justice with very high stakes on the line. The Conspirator. Directed by Robert Redford. The cast includes…

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Film Review: “Lost in the Bewilderness” — Where Myth and Reality Meet

October 15, 2015
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Filmmaker Alexandra Anthony’s ambitious debut documentary was, in essence, fifty years in the making.

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Concert Review: Conductor Jakub Hrůša Makes an Energetic Debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

October 17, 2016
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This was a fascinating program conducted by someone that the BSO will hopefully put (firmly) into their rotation of distinguished guest conductors.

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