Theater/Film Reviews
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Alamar
Watching the bonding of Jorge and his son, Natan, in “Alamar,” will bring feelings of love and longing to any adult who watches Pedro Gonzales-Rubio’s remarkable little film, playing this weekend as part of the Webster University film series. It’s beautiful, sensitive and honest, a rare combination. Jorge (Jorge Machado) is a fisherman in Mexico,
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I Love My Wife
Those who lived through the 1970s will nod familiarly at most of the lines and lyrics in "I Love My Wife." Those too young to remember will understand why certain styles, certain moments, certain memories will bring goofy looks to their parents' faces. Once an on-target look at a decade, now proudly carrying a patina
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The Social Network
Jesse Eisenberg first drew my notice with a terrific performance as an adolescent boy in "The Squid and the Whale," five years ago. Opening today in "The Social Network," Eisenberg has become an actor of stature, despite the fact that he won't be 27 until next Wednesday. As Mark Zuckerberg, the boy genius who created
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Jack Goes Boating
In the gloriously false Hollywood world of clown noses, pasteboard and padding, two wrongs may not make a right, but two misfits often are squeezed into a sweet world that they rarely can inhabit. Such is the case, with a nifty twist, of "Jack Goes Boating," a mostly sweet little movie that marks the directorial
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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Canada’s gift to the concert stage, pianist Glenn Gould, was a strange and eccentric man. He wore gloves and overcoats in any weather, he scorned audiences, he was involved in a strange relationship with the wife of his friend, Lukas Foss. He was still in his teens when he entered the classical music world like
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A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop
I've read a lot of writing I've admired, using language I wished I'd used, but I've never had the urge to rewrite someone else's story and put my name on it, either because I thought I could do it better or as a tribute that would show I could not do it better. But movies
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Let Me In
I'm not a fan of vampires, or of movies abut them. I'm tired of tired special effects, and I'm tired of watching rivers of blood. I don't like the exploitation of children, or the sadism that permeates the genre. "Let Me In," which opens here today is technically a good film, well-made and mostly well-acted,
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Proof
Serious mathematics is foreign to most people, or lots of income tax advisers would be out of work. But give us a good family squabble, or the ups and downs of a love affair, and we're glued to our theater seats. "Proof" proves that in a strong, well-balanced production by the Insight Theatre Company. It
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Want to see a big bunch of beautiful, expensive earrings, all clipped to lovely ears, as a camera slowly closes in on each one? Go to "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." Want to see long, gorgeous helicopter shots of Manhattan, spectacular work by Rodrigo Prieto, showing off the city as if it were those earrings?
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The Me Nobody Knows
The St. Louis Black Repertory Company opened its 2010-11 season last night the same way it ended its 2009-10 season last June, with a cheerful, mostly enjoyable production of “The Me Nobody Knows,” which runs tonight and tomorrow at the Edison Theatre, then performs next Friday-Sunday at Mary Institute-Country Day School. With more stage space