Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

A great cover does more than reproduce the original. Ndegeocello’s bold reinterpretations make the case for reinvention over ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cooking show serves up MAHA talking points without the wit, warmth, or human connection that made ...

"On Resistencia!" and "We Are Not the Headliner," two inspired ensembles explore the possibilities of rhythm, improvisation, and collective expression.

At the Boston Jewish Film Festival, three films follow women who persist in the face of prejudice, buried secrets, and unjust laws.

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See ...

Noah Segan’s melancholy crime drama pairs a quietly compelling John Turturro with richly textured New York locations, tracing an old-school thief’s struggle to survive in a city moving on without him.

Gianandrea Noseda leads sumptuous, finely wrought accounts of the composer’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, revealing music ...

Director Paweł Pawlikowski’s austere account of the writer Thomas Mann's 1949 homecoming puts art, political idealism, and family loyalty on trial.

In "Long Life, Short Stories," Marina Abramović turns memories, images, and personal histories into an exploration of ...

Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård are an odd but irresistible couple in a darkly funny fable about marriage, passion, and ...

The composer leads a virtuosic debut recording of his Jorie Graham–inspired oratorio, whose striking invention is sometimes ...