Reportedly based on director James Gray’s own childhood, the film traffics in broad-stroke ideas about racism, anti-Semitism, and class struggle.
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Reagan and Gorbachev meet cute atop a pile of nukes in Blind Date
Gaping conceptual hole aside, the Goodman Theatre staging is entertaining.
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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
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.
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The Butler: The anti-Gump
In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.
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Cold War frenemies
Refighting the Cold War in Timeline’s A Walk in the Woods
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Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?
President Obama begins a key midwest bus tour with a speech in Minnesota today, amid promises from aides of a more combative approach.