'Our Mother's Brief Affair' review: Linda Lavin shines, as usual

To describe Linda Lavin as flawless in "Our Mother's Brief Affair" suggests we went looking for flaws, which could hardly be less true. Lavin's singular qualities -- the voice that grates and comforts at the same time, the way she expresses an aside with little more than a deep sigh -- could, at this point in her rich career, have frozen into a kind of tragicomic Kabuki.

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