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Film Festival Preview: GlobeDocs Film Festival 2025 — A Varied Mix of Documentaries

October 20, 2025
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Our critic watched a half-dozen films in this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival and shares his thoughts.

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Book Review: “House of Diggs” — The Tragic Arc of a Black Civil Rights Champion

October 18, 2025
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“House of Diggs” is an engaging biography of a historically important Black Congressman, an effective advocate for racial equality who fell prey to the temptation of ‘living large.’

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Visual Arts Review: Firelei Báez at the ICA — No Question, A Star Is Born

April 29, 2024
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The artist is currently facing the existential throes of art-world fame and fortune.

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Film Reviews: “Donbass” and “Babi Yar. Context” — Two Views of Destruction in Ukraine from Sergei Loznitsa

April 14, 2022
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Donbass is a powerfully gritty portrayal of thuggish aggression by people who felt empowered, with Russian support, to steal from, torment, and kill their neighbors.

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Book Review: Internet’s Workers, Tech’s Winners — A Flawed Take in “Amateurs!”

October 15, 2025
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There’s a great book to be written about how everyday users create the content that powers the web, while billionaires reap the profits. But this one isn’t it.

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Dance Review: Redefining Bling

April 11, 2016
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The dancers in Yanira Castro’s company, a canary torsi, learned historically correct period movements.

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Film Review: “The Long Walk” — In Homicidal Lockstep

September 10, 2025
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The movie version of “The Long Walk” doesn’t follow Stephen King’s narrative exactly, but it remains true to the spirit of the novel. Which means it is just as harrowing an experience.

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New York Film Festival 2023: The Arrival of a Master — Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”

October 9, 2023
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This is a Strindbergian dance to the death between a powerful, accomplished woman and a husband tormented by his own sense of failure.

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Theater Review: “Eleanor” — Personal Turmoil Overshadows Political Legacy

October 13, 2025
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The script focuses on the internal struggles that made Eleanor Roosevelt an uncomfortable wife, rather than taking a deeper dive into the moral and progressive vision that made her such an admirable first lady.

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Jazz Album Review: Keith Jarrett’s “Bordeaux Concert” — A Varied Masterpiece

September 28, 2022
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Given Keith Jarrett’s current disability, this new ECM recording is an unexpected gift to his fans.

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