Sunday, January 3, 2016
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMFriday, January 1, 2016
In his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and '60s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:52PMAre people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated? By Peter Keough Every year – and I’m sure this has happened to many other critics as wel…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMThursday, December 31, 2015
The actors' infectious energy and absolute dedication to imaginative play-acting help make Arabian Nights spellbinding.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:34AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
With this excellent volume, Robert Tombs offers further proof that there should be no variance between good history and good writing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:00PMSunday, December 27, 2015
Concussion butts heads with the NFL; Point Break is pointless.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:52AMSaturday, December 26, 2015
The unimportance of being too earnest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:36PMFriday, December 25, 2015
The Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:01PMMonday, December 21, 2015
Who would have guessed that a hunk of War and Peace could be such an enormous amount of fun?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:16PMA guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:16PMBoston's visual art ethos has been painfully safe and systemically non-experimental. Thankfully, that is beginning to change.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AMSunday, December 20, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AMFriday, December 18, 2015
Leave it to Todd Rundgren to poke fun at greatest-hits tours in the middle of a greatest-tour.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:08AMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:40PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem -- the sage writers for The Arts Fuse come to the rescue.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:09PMMonday, December 14, 2015
What came through strongest was Darlene Love's pride in having a new album out and a comeback underway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:14PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:16PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Our demanding critics choose the best (and worst) films of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PMFriday, December 11, 2015
Don't you just love the holiday season? It's the time for the release of big budget flops and Oscar wannabes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:50PMThe Christos Mosaic is the rare adventure story that rewards the reader’s attention by being as diverting as it is rigorously encyclopedic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:25PMThematically, The Snow Queen is a conventional fable about growing up, but it also suggests that maturity does not mean you have to do without heart-felt childishness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:56AMThursday, December 10, 2015
"Fictional movies seem more and more made from recipes. Documentaries seem a much more open, adventurous field."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:28AMThe Shepherds' Singularity's playful combination of science fiction and invention will surely incite thoughtful questioning and genuine wonder.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:22AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
This was quintessential American punk that can stand proudly beside the MC5 and the Stooges.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:09PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Friends since childhood, composer Tilbrook and lyricist Difford formed Squeeze in 1977; there have been two full-fledged breakups and reunions since then.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:04PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Director Vicki Vasilopoulos has masterfully crafted a documentary about tailors, clothing, and the painstaking search for excellence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:02PMNow on the cusp of nine decades, Frank Stella is dedicated to visual experimentation, a kind of controlled and aesthetic atom-smashing,
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMSunday, December 6, 2015
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
The protagonist's confrontation with his past barbarity is far and away the most compelling part of Out of My Hand.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:44PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Top of the Hub was one of the very rare places in the country where ordinary folks would bump into jazz every night.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AM 
