“Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” director Kasi Lemmons’s frustratingly one-note biopic about the pop songstress, who died in 2012 at age 48, suffers from an egregiously ironic musical sin: It’s all hooks and no bridges. Despite clocking in at nearly 2 1/2 hours, “I Wanna Dance” barely scratches the surface of its celestial […]

Say this much for Damien Chazelle: He shows his audience exactly what he’s giving them within the first few minutes of “Babylon,” his bruised, black-eyed valentine to Hollywood’s sybaritic heyday. In a whopper of an opening number, Chazelle films the delivery of an elephant to the estate of film producer Don Wallach (Jeff Garlin), a […]

It’s a safe assumption that it will be mostly parents buying the tickets for “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” the latest installment in the adventures of the swashbuckling ginger cat. With that in mind, the takeaway from this review is this: The main villain, the Big Bad Wolf, is likely to give any kid […]

Deep into next month, the university’s art gallery in Portland features works that speak achingly and poignantly about the human condition.

Let the record reflect that “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s self-portrait of the artist as a young man, ends with one of the best final scenes in recent memory. That scene – and the wink that follows it – is reason enough to see a movie that, true to its title, lends a gentle fairy-tale sheen […]

Nick P. Soloway plays all of the characters in this comedic show.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s annual Christmas show runs through Sunday.

See the work of Nick Benfey at Moss Galleries and Bernard C. Meyers at Cove Street Arts into January.