arts and entertainment
‘Don’t Come Back From the Moon’: A lament for rural America
January 17, 2019The film is an adaptation of Bakopoulos’s first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon.
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‘My Brilliant Friend’: Two broke girls
January 10, 2019The brilliance of the series would seem to owe much to mid-20th-century Italian neorealist directors.
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Hoagancamp’s heroes: ‘Welcome to Marwen’
December 21, 2018Although it’s flawed, I commend Zemeckis, his cast and crew for not only taking on such daunting subject matter, but for doing so in such an original way.
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‘Detroit 48202’: What a mail carrier sees and learns in the heart of a city
November 9, 2018Detroit 48202 is a searing film that weaves the racial history of the city with the economic truths of capitalism.
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Dominican Republic jazz report: When in Cabarete, dance merengue
November 9, 2018The 21st annual Dominican Republic Jazz finished off with a bang in this beach town on November 5. The final concert was—where else?—on Cabarete’s wide yellow-sand beach.
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