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By Sarah Osman Jay Kelly is a shallow attack on shallowness. Jay Kelly, directed by Noah Baumbach. Screening at Coolidge Corner Theater, AMC Theaters, Landmark Kendall Square Cinema. Who are you when you’re always playing other people? And what happens when, even as “yourself,” you feel you are still playing a character? That is the…
The current state of Hollywood — terminal banality — is concerning. But that’s what makes it so perfect for a dose of acidic satire.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Maybe being quarantined for so long has taken its toll, but Hollywood satisfies well enough as a vibrant escape to glamorous parties filled with scheming executives and hot-to-trot actors on the make.
Play The Way You Feel is the best volume around on the uneasy relationship between film and jazz.
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, provide an on-target parody in Hail, Caesar!, their funny period comedy set in ’50s Hollywood.
The cinematic contrast between America and Latin America was on tragic view at the Maine International Film Festival on Saturday.
Looked at on his own terms Thomas Hart Benton is an American Master and deserves to be reconsidered.
Benton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.
Film Commentary: AI — Is Hollywood in its Virtual Sights?
Massive layoffs, cheapened content, and misinformation on steroids: AI text-to-video is coming for Hollywood, and it certainly feels like a curtain call.
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