arts and culture
Walter Salles’ fact-based ‘I’m Still Here,’ among the best recent political films
December 5, 2024It succeeds so completely because it is very much a family drama, but one that shows how politics can profoundly affect a family.
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‘Sabbath Queen’: From radical drag artist to rabbi of a God-optional synagogue
December 3, 2024Another way of looking at the survival of the Jewish people, in all climes, and throughout all the empires, wars, monarchs and pogroms of the millennia, is precisely the adaptability to changing circumstances and the incorporation...
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Set in apartheid years, ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ intrigues, stuns, moves
December 3, 2024Michael K is born to a mother whose entire life has been one of service to wealthier white families. He had the misfortune to be born with a harelip, serious enough that it was hard for...
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‘Woman of the Hour’: Victims of the culture
December 2, 2024Clearly, Anna Kendrick has something to say.
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Jeanine Tesori’s new opera ‘Grounded’ is a call to moral accountability
November 27, 2024While the opera does not tackle head-on the wars Jess is fighting, it will surely provoke such questioning in the audience—about moral ambiguity at the very least.
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