Fuse Film Review: Hell is the Nervous Laughter of Tom Noonan " Charlie Kaufman's Inscrutable "Anomalisa"
Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you'd think they actually want to be miserable.
Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you'd think they actually want to be miserable.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
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.
Are 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 well " …
The actors' infectious energy and absolute dedication to imaginative play-acting help make Arabian Nights spellbinding.
With this excellent volume, Robert Tombs offers further proof that there should be no variance between good history and good writing.
Concussion butts heads with the NFL; Point Break is pointless.
The unimportance of being too earnest.
The Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.
Who would have guessed that a hunk of War and Peace could be such an enormous amount of fun?
A 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).
Boston's visual art ethos has been painfully safe and systemically non-experimental. Thankfully, that is beginning to change.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Fuse dance critics pick some of the outstanding performances/events of the year.
Leave it to Todd Rundgren to poke fun at greatest-hits tours in the middle of a greatest-tour.
Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.
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.
What came through strongest was Darlene Love's pride in having a new album out and a comeback underway.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Our demanding critics choose the best (and worst) films of the year.
Don't you just love the holiday season? It's the time for the release of big budget flops and Oscar wannabes.
The Christos Mosaic is the rare adventure story that rewards the reader's attention by being as diverting as it is rigorously encyclopedic.
Thematically, 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.
"Fictional movies seem more and more made from recipes. Documentaries seem a much more open, adventurous field."
The Shepherds' Singularity's playful combination of science fiction and invention will surely incite thoughtful questioning and genuine wonder.