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‘Oscar Wao’ Review: The Tragedy, and Comedy, of Manhood

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|Date: January 24, 2020
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‘Oscar Wao’ Review: The Tragedy, and Comedy, of Manhood

In a Spanish-language stage adaptation of the Junot Díaz novel, the friendship between two Dominican men ...

In a Spanish-language stage adaptation of the Junot Díaz novel, the friendship between two Dominican men is a testing ground for competing visions of masculinity. Source link ...

January 24, 2020
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Review: Gustavo Dudamel Excels, Yet Again, at the New York Philharmonic

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|Date: January 24, 2020
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Review: Gustavo Dudamel Excels, Yet Again, at the New York Philharmonic

Returning to the podium of the New York Philharmonic last week for the first time in 11 years, Gustavo Du ...

Returning to the podium of the New York Philharmonic last week for the first time in 11 years, Gustavo Dudamel brought a jolt of bristling vitality to an overplayed staple: Dvorak’s “New World” Sympho ...

January 24, 2020
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Review: In ‘Grand Horizons,’ Marriage Is a Long-Running Farce

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Review: In ‘Grand Horizons,’ Marriage Is a Long-Running Farce

To call “Grand Horizons” one of the brightest shows to hit Broadway in years is not to tout its intellige ...

To call “Grand Horizons” one of the brightest shows to hit Broadway in years is not to tout its intelligence, which flickers. Rather, I mean that it is blindingly lit, no doubt in deference to the the ...

January 24, 2020
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Review: The Comforts of the Cozy Scare in ‘The Woman in Black’

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Review: The Comforts of the Cozy Scare in ‘The Woman in Black’

This is the character we meet first in the stage version, a diffident bourgeois gentleman named Arthur Ki ...

This is the character we meet first in the stage version, a diffident bourgeois gentleman named Arthur Kipps (David Acton), who arrives with a bulky manuscript containing his description of ghastly ad ...

January 24, 2020
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‘John Henry’ Review: Hammer Time

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|Date: January 23, 2020
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‘John Henry’ Review: Hammer Time

No kindness goes unpunished in “John Henry,” a thug-life thriller so frequently preposterous that it almo ...

No kindness goes unpunished in “John Henry,” a thug-life thriller so frequently preposterous that it almost resembles a parody. Like “John Wick,” its action is juiced by the killing of a dog; unlike t ...

January 23, 2020
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‘I Wish I Knew’ Review: A Melancholy Master’s Portrait of a City

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|Date: January 23, 2020
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‘I Wish I Knew’ Review: A Melancholy Master’s Portrait of a City

There are moments in the Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s “I Wish I Knew” when you feel agreeably unmoored. ...

There are moments in the Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s “I Wish I Knew” when you feel agreeably unmoored. Beguiling images flicker across the screen and an unidentified woman (Zhao Tao, Jia’s wife and ...

January 23, 2020
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‘The Turning’ Review: Taking a Dusty Book Off the Shelf

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|Date: January 23, 2020
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‘The Turning’ Review: Taking a Dusty Book Off the Shelf

Henry James’s 19th-century novella “The Turn of the Screw” receives an update in this film that has the h ...

Henry James’s 19th-century novella “The Turn of the Screw” receives an update in this film that has the hallmarks of horror but few real terrors. Source link ...

January 23, 2020
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‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero

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|Date: January 23, 2020
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‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero

When in a movie a harried, cynical, pencil-pushing government bureaucrat is saddled with an assignment he ...

When in a movie a harried, cynical, pencil-pushing government bureaucrat is saddled with an assignment he doesn’t want, during a crisis in his employment, you know how it’s going to go. Just as in a H ...

January 23, 2020
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‘Zombi Child’ Review: Race, Class and Voodoo

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|Date: January 23, 2020
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‘Zombi Child’ Review: Race, Class and Voodoo

The dreamy detachment that’s a hallmark of the cinematic style of the French director Bertrand Bonello so ...

The dreamy detachment that’s a hallmark of the cinematic style of the French director Bertrand Bonello sometimes invites accusations of glibness, and worse. Bonello’s last film, 2017’s “Nocturama,” ab ...

January 23, 2020
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‘Quezon’s Game’ Review: In the Philippines, a Refuge From the Nazis

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‘Quezon’s Game’ Review: In the Philippines, a Refuge From the Nazis

In 1938, the Philippine president, Manuel L. Quezon, rescued more than 1,200 German Jews from Nazi ghetto ...

In 1938, the Philippine president, Manuel L. Quezon, rescued more than 1,200 German Jews from Nazi ghettos and gave them refuge. It’s a remarkable slice of history that seems made for a political thri ...

January 23, 2020
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