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Al Pacino, playing the title character, delivers his most impressive performance since he starred in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny a quarter century ago.
Scott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.
With invention that suggests the work of Malevich and Mondrian, the composition is a play of rectangles.
None of these pedigrees guaranteed that The Old Ceremony's music would live up to the promise. After all, cool by association does not equal great on one's own.
Federico GarcÃa Lorca's Blood Wedding remains edgier than most American fare in this century.
Party Girl has won a plethora of festival awards, including two at Cannes in 2014.
Urban pollution and acid rain have not dealt kindly with Boston City Hall's mostly concrete facade.
The star of The Easy Way Out is its splendidly quick pacing, which gives it more of the feel of an American film than one would expect.
But mechanical as Chic!'s story is, it is rare to have this kind of French fluff put across with so much charm and vivacity.
Zoë Anderson's volume aims to give readers a handy way to discern the most influential ballets from among the confusing proliferation that we find in today's repertory.
It is a conundrum for the critic: is the crudeness of the rendering the result of an expressionist style or a lack of finesse or skill in rendering?
John Berberian, an Armenian-American master of the oud, is in our midst.
The show is unabashedly American in subject matter and form: Realism is as much an influence as Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the other European "isms.
Monchichi is about relationships but focused on this particular relationship, in which affection and intimacy and joy and sometimes frustration exist.
those who go for things legendarily Gallic, they are offering a real treat; two new films featuring the goddess Catherine Deneuve.
At a time when kids are being spoon-fed countless superhero movies and gothic fantasies, this film stands out because it resonates with the realities in their lives.
U2 kept their soapboxing excesses at bay and delivered an uplifting and effective mix of new material and bona-fide classics without losing focus on what they do best.
Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band brimmed with enthusiasm when he described how one show ended with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings horn players joining his own 11-piece ensemble..
Director Judd Apatow has done a great job translating Amy Schumer's humor and salty/sweet persona to the screen in Trainwreck.
Aging punk bands usually seem obliged to prove that their anger is still blazing. Since the Rezillos were never angry in the first place, they don't have that problem.
The MIFF offered two new films starring Richard Gere in atypical roles for the prolific actor.
The cinematic contrast between America and Latin America was on tragic view at the Maine International Film Festival yesterday.
Tired Moonlight has been generating a lot of buzz on the film festival circuit, and a classy salute to Hollywood actress Ann Sothern.
If you love classic musical comedy, this is a production you must see.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato is another major achievement from the iconoclastic British director Peter Greenaway.
