To explain Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” an ambitious yet mystifyingly dysfunctional meta-movie, in terms of both form and content, it may be helpful to walk a prospective viewer backward, outward from the center of this most puzzling – and, most puzzlingly, ponderous – of puzzle boxes. Set in 1955, against a robin’s-egg-blue sky that looks […]
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In ‘No Hard Feelings,’ she’s hot to trot, he’s not
In the blandly inoffensive sex comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, an emotionally stunted, sexually liberated 30-year-old living in her childhood home in Montauk, studiously avoiding the bonds of adulthood. As the movie opens, Maddie’s car is being towed for back taxes, a catastrophe of financially epic proportions, since she’s an Uber driver. […]
In his new novel, Richard Ford meditates on life, death, and happiness in the face of mortality
Frank Bascombe returns in ‘Be Mine.’ Now in his mid-70s, he’s caring for a middle-aged son with ALS, and the two embark on a road trip.
Kissinger is her nemesis. Farrow is her friend. Rose Styron tells all
In her memoir ‘Beyond This Harbor,’ Styron, 95, looks back at her life before, during and since her marriage to the novelist William Styron.
Renowned pianist Richard Goode charms audience at Portland Bach festival
His performance centered around works by Beethoven, but references to Bach were felt in throughout.
‘The Flash’: A superhero at war with himself in the multiverse
In “The Flash,” the titular superhero and Justice League member who is so fast he can time travel – via something called the Chronobowl, a sort of swirling arena of temporal possibilities that he enters by, er, running really fast – attempts to return to his childhood so he can prevent the murder of his […]
Theater review: Ogunquit Playhouse puts on spirited ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
The show runs through July 15.
In ‘The Mythmakers,’ Keziah Weir has written a quiet, ‘revelatory’ first novel
When a magazine writer reads a Paris Review story that seems to be based on an encounter she once had with the now deceased writer, she sets out to learn more.
Art review: Artists explore masculinity, identity in 2 Portland shows
Dunes displays the sculptures and paintings of two male artists who met during a residency, while Moss Galleries pairs two New York-based female artists originally from other parts of world.
‘Fire Weather’ is a gripping narrative and a loud wake-up call
John Vaillant’s new book recounts a Canadian wildfire in 2016 that was nicknamed “the beast.”