Take your time with them in her exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art.
Review
The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’
Crewe’s lyrical, piercing debut lends a contemporary urgency to an exploration of same-sex intimacy and social opprobrium.
‘The Pale Blue Eye’ a 19th-century whodunit – with Edgar Allan Poe
Writer-director Scott Cooper may be as perfect an interpreter as can be imagined for Netflix’s pulpy yet high-minded adaptation of “The Pale Blue Eye,” a well-received 2003 whodunit by novelist Louis Bayard about a series of grisly 1830 murders investigated by a retired police detective and his young assistant, Edgar Allan Poe. Coming off 2021’s […]
In ‘Corsage,’ a self-aware woman is trapped by the confines of a crown
Vicky Krieps plays Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Marie Kreutzer’s intriguing but inert historical drama.
‘Glass Onion’ another fun, and scathing, ‘Knives Out’ mystery
Remember “Knives Out”? It was 2019, and we were all looking for a movie worth schlepping to a theater to see with the whole family. Who knew it would be a playful Agatha Christie-style parlor mystery whose themes of wealth inequality, political squabbling and internecine power plays made it arguably the most on-point film of […]
Chocolate, gin and cats: An octogenarian on growing old gracefully
In ‘The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly,’ Margareta Magnusson explains her secrets to a full life. But is there anything Swedish about it?
A fascinating, expansive look at the ‘disappearing music of the coast’
In ‘A Foghorn’s Lament,’ writer Jennifer Lucy Allan explores the telltale blast that signaled both hope and fear.
The 33 movies we loved in 2022 – and where to watch them
In a season of Top 10 lists, here’s one on steroids: We looked through the last 12 months of movie reviews and found 33 films that received 3 1/2 or 4 stars from our critics. Ranging from such mainstream fare as “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Nope” to “You Won’t Be Alone” – a little Macedonian-language […]
Art review: For inaugural exhibit, Waterville gallery puts focus on video art
Three videos and a related sculpture make up ‘Light on Main Street’ at the Joan Digman Schmaltz Gallery of Art in the new Paul J. Schupf Art Center.
A fascinating history of beavers shows how the species shaped the U.S.
Leila Philip’s book is thrilling, both on scientific and historical levels.