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  A weird thing happens at film festivals. Deprived of sleep but jazzed by the buzz of the event, viewers — journalists, producers, film buyers — sometimes fall prey to a communal mind-set about a movie that really, really isn’t worth all the hype. Buyer’s remorse follows. (That was literally true for film companies that [...]

  Producer, star and freshly named Oscar nominee for her lead performance, Glenn Close has wanted to bring “Albert Nobbs” to the screen ever since she played the cross-dressing role on the New York stage three decades ago. It’s a shame she couldn’t pull the project together earlier. The film might make more emotional sense [...]

  Reduced to their essence, this is what movies are: a dance of darkness and illumination, splashed across a screen. The Emory University film series “Painting With Light” celebrates the medium’s power at its most basic and most glorious with a range of titles that take us from the silent era to the end of [...]

  The two lead characters in Lee Blessing’s “A Body of Water,” on stage at Aurora Theatre through February 12, both wake up one morning with no recollection of who they are. Avis (Tess Malis Kincaid) and Moss (Mark Kincaid) find themselves together in a pleasant vacation house surrounded by woods and water, with no [...]

    In playwright Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage,” at the Alliance Theatre through February 4, two upper-middle-class couples meet in a fancy living room to discuss a recent fight between their children on the playground. What begins as an ostensibly civilized, logical discussion ends up as an emotionally barbarous, bare-knuckle fight for dominance. In [...]

   Zoé Héran (left) stars as the “Tomboy.” Jeanne has the best big brother a six-year-old could hope for. The only problem is that Michael (Zoé Héran) is actually Laure: a sporty, short-haired 10-year-old girl who uses the excuse of summer in a new town among new kids to unleash — and name — her [...]