Based on novelist Nicholas Searle’s best-selling 2016 debut, “The Good Liar” is a silly breeze of a movie starring two of Britain’s finest actors, each having a blast playing cat-and-mouse with the other. Ian McKellen charms as Roy, a London con man who woos elderly women into signing their savings over to him. His target […]
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Art review: CMCA takes on the theme of time in series’ latest show
‘Temporality | The Process of Time’ is the second in a series of shows held in years the Rockland venue doesn’t have a biennial.
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Theater review: Mad Horse prances boldly – and beautifully – into reality with ‘Mary Jane’
There’s nary a misstep as the theater company explores a mother’s journey caring for a chronically ill child.
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VentiCordi brings rarely encountered music to Maine audience
The chamber music ensemble used uncommon instrumental combinations to present lesser-known compositions, and left listeners wanting more.
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Review: ‘Harriet’ gives Cynthia Erivo the star turn she deserves in an overall acting triumph
Cynthia Erivo knows how to make an entrance. In “Harriet,” her first starring film role and one she signed for before she had any big screen experience at all, the British actress galvanizes the proceedings as Harriet Tubman, a figure of rescue and resistance so legendary she is scheduled to take her place on the […]
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Edward Norton loosely adapts part-time Mainer’s beloved novel ‘Motherless Brooklyn’
The movie is based on a book by Jonathan Lethem, who spends time in Maine.
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‘Midway’ is a big, old-fashioned war movie, with one thing missing: human beings
Military authenticity isn’t a problem in this movie.
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Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ dismantles the myths the filmmaker helped create in movies like ‘Goodfellas’
‘The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating gangland epic, starts off with a bittersweet inside joke: A long tracking shot – one of the director’s bravura signatures – that threads the audience, not through the labyrinthine hallways and kitchens of the Copacabana, but an old folks’ home, where the film’s protagonist, Frank Sheeran, can be found ruminating […]
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Art review: DesignInquiry’s overwhelming show has a welcoming core
Think of ‘Futurespective’ as a library of ideas about design.
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A nameless boy has much to deal with in this understated and moving debut novel
In Dave Patterson’s ‘Soon the Light Will Be Perfect,’ the 12-year-old narrator tries to make sense of his mother’s illness, his father’s job instability and other complexities of approaching adulthood.