Now we get it. Alexis de Toqueville’s classic predicted everything!
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‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ marks Radha Blank as not just a fresh filmmaking voice, but a wise and accomplished one too.
Calling Radha Blank a fresh new voice on the filmmaking scene is just the kind of perhaps-vaguely-condescending language that she sends up so cleverly in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” a wry love letter to New York, middle-aged angst, creative blockage and artistic survival against daunting odds. Sometimes those odds are of one’s own making, in the […]
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‘On the Rocks’ has all the right ingredients – Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Sofia Coppola – but it’s a flavorless dish
I always have a reporter’s notebook at the ready when I review a movie, just in case I want to jot down a telling visual detail, snippet of dialogue or revealing actorly gesture. After watching “On the Rocks,” Sofia Coppola’s latest urban picaresque, all I had was a blank page. In this cocktail peanut of […]
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Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a brilliant, suspenseful examination of race and class
The novel’s setup: the Black owners of a luxurious vacation home unexpectedly show up at their home, surprising the white family who is renting it.
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Art review: CMCA Biennial takes on tough topics
Among the diverse works of the 34 artists, current controversies continually emerge.
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A clandestine road trip powers Jessica Barry’s skillful second thriller
“Don’t Turn Around” hinges on two women making a nighttime drive from Lubbock to Albuquerque for a reason initially unclear.
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‘The Boys in the Band’ seeks relevance in a remake of a pioneering gay film
The 1968 play “The Boys in the Band” – both pioneering and polarizing for its simultaneously honest and stagy depiction of pre-Stonewall-era male homosexuality – gets a handsome, impeccably acted Netflix film adaptation by director Joe Mantello, based on Mantello’s own 50th-anniversary Broadway revival in 2018. As a film, “Boys” is no less bound by […]
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Art review: Portland Museum of Art exhibit puts Remington in context
But pairing him with Homer in ‘Mythmakers’ is still problematic.
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There’s a little too much ‘Fargo’ in the new season of ‘Fargo,’ but the trip is still worth taking
Three years have passed since we last saw “Fargo,” creator Noah Hawley’s captivating FX anthology series that greatly expanded on the darkly comedic Coen brothers film, but it might as well be decades. A lot has happened to us lately, and to television as well, which means past seasons of “Fargo” feel more of a […]