Paul Dervis

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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Film Review: “Power and Impotence” — A Cold Look at a Hot Story

October 14, 2015
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Divided into three acts and an epilogue, the film attempts to generate Shakespearean resonances, but the presentation is more mundane than tragic.

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Film Review: “The Walk”—A Death-Defying Journey to Remember

October 13, 2015
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Philippe Petit’s feat has inspired an amazing documentary, and now an amazing feature film.

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Film Review: “Breathe” — French Teens and the Sins of the Parents

October 3, 2015
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Complex and nuanced, Breathe thankfully owes little to our current assembly line of teen angst flicks.

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Film Review: “Learning to Drive” — Down the Formulaic Highway

September 26, 2015
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This modest film manages to hold the viewer’s attention, not to mention his or her compassion, throughout.

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Film Review: “Black Mass” — Oh, What Could Have Been

September 22, 2015
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Rarely is an actor so completely miscast in such a pivotal role.

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Fuse Theater Review: “In Bed with Roy Cohn” — Turns out to be a Provocative Place to be

September 13, 2015
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is one high-energy spectacle: it is far more of a performance art piece than a ‘well made’ play.

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Theater Review: “Laugh It Up, Stare it Down” — No Sex Please, We’re American

September 11, 2015
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From the opening moment of this show, suspension of disbelief flies out the window and never returns.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Informed Consent” — Science, Ethics, and Racing Against the Clock

September 5, 2015
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Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer has done a marvelous job of blending weighty ideas into a very human context.

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Theater Review: A.R. Gurney’s “Love and Money” — Aging White Bread Blues

September 3, 2015
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Love and Money is a short play, lengthened beyond one-act duration by stuffing a Cole Porter interlude into its middle.’

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