See ‘Seeking Light’ at University of New England through Jan. 21 and ‘Long Dreams’ at Moss Galleries through Feb. 2.

I cannot tell a lie: 2022 was kind of a bummer, movie-wise. As the year ended, I was hard-pressed to come up with 10 titles I genuinely loved. The pickings were so slim, I worried about the future of the movies, not just as art or mass entertainment, but as communal events that are central […]

It is difficult – nay, impossible – to imagine that the Willy Wonka of the prequel “Wonka,” a simperingly sweet musical origin story starring Timothée Chalamet as the aspiring chocolatier made famous by writer Roald Dahl, ever matures into the adult version of the character we saw in 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” starring […]

Plus, artist Yoav Horesh raises larger questions by mixing and matching facial features at the Maine Jewish Museum.

Of Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel, “Eileen” – the 1964-set story of a mousy prison secretary outside Boston who discovers her darker self – reviewer Patrick Anderson wrote in The Washington Post that the 2015 book “may bore some readers and repulse others, but those with a yen for the perverse may well embrace its unsettling […]