This is a repost with Third Coast Review. At the center of Capernaum, the latest film from Lebanese writer/director (and actor) Nadine Labaki (Where Do We Go Now?, Caramel), is one of the year’s best performances, and it’s delivered by someone who isn’t even a teenager yet. Zain Al Rafeea is ...

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This is a cross-post with Third Coast Review. To those with just a passing awareness of such things, Moonlight may only be known as that film at the center of Envelopegate at the 2017 Academy Awards; the cast and crew of La La Land ascended to the stage thinking they'd won Best Picture, only to ...

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About a decade ago, when I was a young, budding, innocent cinephile, I heard about this film, Dogtooth. You must see it, they said. Naive and trusting as I was, I did just that. And I was never the same again.  Dogtooth is filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos's break-out feature about grown siblings ...

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I've attended more opera in the last year than I have in all my years of attending theater (and that's a lot of years!). Thanks to my in over at Third Coast Review, I've been able to see several productions at Chicago's acclaimed Lyric Opera, and I'm always impressed by the grand scale of it all. ...

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This Halloween, girls and women of all ages took to dressing up as heroes; a particular favorite appeared to be Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She's having quite a moment, after all, with the release of RBG, the rousing documentary about her life, the forthcoming On The Basis of Sex that ...

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