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a white ginger boy and a Black boy stand in what looks like a bathroom stall
Posted inFilm

Armageddon Time

by Dmitry Samarov November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

Reportedly based on director James Gray’s own childhood, the film traffics in broad-stroke ideas about racism, anti-Semitism, and class struggle.

Posted inArts & Culture

Reagan and Gorbachev meet cute atop a pile of nukes in Blind Date

by Tony Adler February 6, 2018August 18, 2021

Gaping conceptual hole aside, the Goodman Theatre staging is entertaining.

Posted inBlogs

Sinead O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got speaks to the fight against Trump from 27 years in the past

by Noah Berlatsky January 19, 2017August 18, 2021

Sinead O’Connor’s 1990 album combines the rage of ’80s antifascist punk with a private grief that’s timeless—it’s music for a battle we hoped we’d never have to wage again.

The Butler
Posted inFilm

The Butler: The anti-Gump

by Ben Sachs August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.

Posted inArts & Culture

Cold War frenemies

by Tony Adler August 25, 2011August 19, 2021

Refighting the Cold War in Timeline’s A Walk in the Woods

Posted inBlogs

Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?

by Steve Bogira August 15, 2011August 19, 2021

President Obama begins a key midwest bus tour with a speech in Minnesota today, amid promises from aides of a more combative approach.

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