'Nickel Boys' chronicles the strong friendship between two young Black men negotiating a horrific, abusive reform school in 1960s Florida.
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New York Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘A Real Pain’ with Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin
Estranged cousins honor their deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, by visiting her hometown in Poland.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘Happyend’
Japanese writer-director Neo Sora's narrative feature film debut 'Happyend' confronts us about our political fears and seeming powerlessness in the face of looming environmental disasters.
Read More »New York Film Festival 2024 Reviews: Land Struggles in ‘Harvest,’ ‘No Other Land’
Two films, one fictional, one a documentary, concern struggles with land possession and ownership that divergently reveal how money, greed and power become the salient motivation for evicting people who have worked the land for a century or more.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Our Class’ – Former Playmates Become Murderers
Based on Jan T. Gross' 'Neighbors,' Tadeusz Slobodzianek's 'Our Class' chronicles the destiny of 10 classmates over a period of 80 years.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Kate Chopin in New Orleans’
'Kate Chopin in New Orleans' by Rory O'Neill Schmitt and Rosary O'Neill is a superb hybrid-genre book about the life of writer Kate Chopin.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘JOB’ – Power and Psychosis on Broadway
In 'JOB' Jane is required by her company because of a breakdown to receive therapy from Loyd before she is allowed to return to work. She challenges Loyd the moment she enters his office and a power struggle ensues.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘The Welkin’
When a woman kills the young daughter of a rich landowner, she is found guilty. But her hanging may be suspended because she is pregnant. A group of women are called in to judge whether she is lying.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Empire, The Musical’
'Empire, The Musical' tells parallel stories of the obstacles and determination to build the iconic Empire State Building and of a daughter who finally learns about her father, an ironworker, whom she never knew.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘N/A’ Clashing Wills, Holland Taylor & Ana Villafañe
Inspired by real people and events, the mesmerizing 'N/A' explores the person whom many consider the most powerful woman in American history… and the once-in-a-generation political talent who challenges her.
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