We like our fantasies to be readily identifiable as such and to be realistic in their details.
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PETITE MORT and World Premieres (Pennsylvania Ballet): Lamentation and Revolution
The exuberant choreography was spectacular, the dancers striking, and the dramatic finale stirred the viewers’ imagination.
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EMPATHY, INC. (dir. Yedidya Gorsetman): Film review
The film explores the lengths that someone will go just to save their reputation and/or bank account.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 (Arden): Imagining another Nora
Naomi Orwin asks: Would a woman have envisioned a different Nora? A different Torvald?
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A HUMAN BEING DIED THAT NIGHT (EgoPo): Illuminating apartheid
A review in words and sketches.
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BODIED (dir. Joseph Kahn): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The film blogosphere has been alight about Joseph Kahn’s latest feature, Bodied, since its explosive debut at TIFF over a year ago.
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WARPLAY (Azuka): A playground at the gates of Troy
Not quite “Sing, oh muse, of the rage of Achilles.”
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 (Arden): After the slam
Lucas Hnath takes up Nora’s story fifteen years after the events of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play.
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DIAMANTINO (dir. Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt): Philadelphia Film Festival review
From Portugal comes what is easily the funniest film of 2018
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MR BURNS (Wilma): Darkness on the edge of Springfield
Civilization has collapsed but The Simpsons is still going.
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PROSPECT (dir. Chris Caldwell, Zeek Earl): Philadelphia Film Festival review
In this world, space isn’t the final frontier. It’s the California desert post-gold rush.
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THE FAVOURITE (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos): Philadelphia Film Festival review 2
Dan Scully reviews the latest movie from the director of The Lobster.
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THE GUILTY (dir. Gustav Möller): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Like all good thrillers, THE GUILTY weaves in current issues from the real world,
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Broadway tour at Academy of Music): An updated Fiddler
The thrill of a big show-biz production and the feeling of authenticity
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BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY (dir. Dava Whisenant): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Call me a snob, but I’ve never understood the idea of enjoying something ironically. The enjoyment of the “it’s so good it’s bad” phenomena for…
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THE FAVOURITE (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos): Philadelphia Film Festival review
A film with a concept you didn’t know you needed
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Shoplifters (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda): Philadelphia Film Festival review
The best films are those which afford the viewer an inside look into a life experience different from their own
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Burning (dir. Chang-dong Lee): Philadelphia Film Festival review
Based on a Murakami short story, BURNING clocks in at 148 indispensable minutes.
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SWEAT (PTC): What’s the matter with Reading?
Why does SWEAT appeal to us, as aging urban middle-to-upper-to-upper-upper-class theatergoers? Do we hope to understand? Relate? Gawk? What do we applaud?
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PLUNGE (Brian Sanders JUNK): 2018 Fringe review
PLUNGE is yet another fruit of Brian Sanders’ creative genius
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