Arts Review

Published
February 17, 2020

Movie review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ is a surprisingly good time
Published
February 17, 2020

Review: Comedic super-duo provide the perfect lift to ‘Downhill’

If you’re going to Americanize a celebrated European film, you can’t do much better than casting Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell.
Published
February 16, 2020

Qandeel Baloch was dubbed Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian

A debut book by Sanam Maher explores the 26-year-old's life and murder.
Published
February 16, 2020

Joan Silverman turns her acute, unsentimental lens on topics big and small

Written in graceful, unobtrusive prose, 'Someday This Will Fit: Linked Essays, Meditations & Other Midlife Follies' tackles chocolate-covered strawberries, home repair – and the loss of a parent.
Published
February 12, 2020

Concert review: PSO, guest conductor earn standing ovation for 20th century sampling

But a piano concerto highlights Merrill Auditorium's need for a new instrument.

Published
February 10, 2020

Movie review: Harley Quinn and her girl gang are lovable psychopaths in ‘Birds of Prey’
Published
February 9, 2020

Theater review: Defiance central theme in run of plays by women, non-binary writers in Portland

The Polyphonic Theatre Ensemble's 'Symphony of New Works 2020' makes the case for the power of theater to creatively reveal sometimes difficult truths.
Published
February 9, 2020

New England has its own unsavory links to the slave trade

'Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England' details a legacy that many in the region would probably like to forget.
Published
February 9, 2020

Choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago

Arthur Phillips' engaging "The King at the Edge of the World" is set in the tense court of Queen Elizabeth I, as she lays dying and her couriers jockey to determine a successor.
Published
February 6, 2020

Review: ‘Gretel & Hansel’ is a real horror(ible) movie

There's Grimm, and there's grim.