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In the early ’90s, Angels in America—Tony Kushner’s two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of lost souls—grabbed the theater world by its…
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Maybe it’s just me, but the therapeutic efficacy of music must have more convincing advocates than “sound shaman” Tom Kenyon….
Here we are in Berlin and Belgrade and Lausanne, and there’s Pierce Brosnan running through the streets. We have Russians,…
Ordinarily, one might expect that a total absence of dialogue would be the most distinctive element of a movie made…
Michael Fassbender is in there somewhere. The Irish-German star of Shame and the X-Men movies spends most of this unlikely…
Irene is keen at finding flaws and reluctant to commit to permanence. In that sense, her job couldn’t be more…
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Based on a 1971 sci-fi novel by Stanislaw Lem, this movie begins intriguingly as Hollywood satire. Robin Wright plays Robin…
