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Film Review: Selections from the 19th Annual Boston French Film Festival — “Apaches” and “Age of Panic”

July 22, 2014
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Two significant feature debuts at the MFA’s French Film Festival — Age of Panic goes where few movies have gone before, while Apaches trains a calm, dispassionate gaze on disaffected youth.

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Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part Three

September 5, 2020
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In wrapping up Fantasia, I focused on The Five Rules of Success, Come True, and The Dark and the Wicked, three ambitious genre titles that have stuck with me long since their credits rolled.

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Book Review: “With Ballet in My Soul” — The Vicissitudes of an Impresario

March 24, 2017
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Eva Maze drops names and paints a heady picture of the high life, but she does so with the disarming charm that permeates most of her memoir.

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Theater Commentary: A Time for Tragic Reflection

June 1, 2021
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“We can, of course, be deceived in many ways. We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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Dance Review: Dystopian Dancing — Pina, a 3-D documentary

December 26, 2011
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As a dancer, Pina Bausch was the presiding spirit of speechlessness. She had the macabre body of an anorexic, but her matchstick arms communicated entire inner worlds.

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Book Review: “And Go Like This” — Short Stories of Distinction

September 4, 2020
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The stories in And Go Like This are wise, compassionate, and deftly crafted.

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Book Review: “The Big Green Tent” — Lives Lived Without Trust, Memorably Conveyed

December 18, 2015
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We root for all of the ordinary folk who survived — and are still surviving even now — one of the bleakest and saddest periods in Russia’s history.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “The Stand” Stumbles

January 26, 2021
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Though the cast is generally excellent, Stephen King’s characters are often at the mercy of wrongheaded writing or needlessly flashy special effects.

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Book Review: Tamas Dobozy’s “Stasio” — Noir Fiction That is Haunted and Haunting

October 21, 2024
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“Stasio” is an exercise in noir fiction with the intellectual depth we expect from our best writers, compounded by the lyricism of Tamas Dobozy’s style, crisp dialogue, wit and humor, and well-drawn characters.

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Visual Arts Review: “Armenia!” — Art, Religion, and Trade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

December 18, 2018
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Armenian cultural history has always been about survival: between Armenians preserving their art within the shifting boundaries of their homeland, and carrying their art beyond the country’s borders.

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