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Friday, October 31, 2025

'The Captive' Review: 'Don Quixote's' Author Becomes the Hero in a HandsomeÂ Historical Fiction by Dennis Harvey

"The Captive" offers the intriguing concept of "Don Quixote's" author viewed through a lens more redolent of "Arabian Nights," spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors i…

SOURCE: Variety at 01:45AM[SHARE]

Thursday, August 14, 2025

'Night Always Comes' Review: Vanessa Kirby Is a Few Desperate Gambits Away From Homelessness in Gritty Netflix Drama by Dennis Harvey

It is a given among the comfortable that most crime happens because there are bad people. It's a certainty among the disadvantaged, however, that some crime happens because those without fin…

SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]

Friday, July 25, 2025

'Terrestrial' Review: An Intervention on a Rising Sci-Fi Author Gives Way to a Clever, Unclassifiable Genre Mashup by Dennis Harvey

A cheerfully macabre comedy of misunderstandings, lies and delusion, "Terrestrial" teases with the promise of science-fiction " but it turns out the kind of fantasy at work here is less abou…

SOURCE: Variety at 02:32AM[SHARE]

Friday, June 20, 2025

'Inside' Review: Guy Pearce and Cosmo Jarvis Are Inmates in an Offbeat Aussie Prison Drama by Dennis Harvey

Prison dramas usually fall into three categories: They're either tales of violent intrigue, redemption or a rocky road through one to the other. "Inside" has a different feel, since its prim…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:00AM[SHARE]

Friday, May 17, 2024

'Galileo: A Rock Musical' Review: Grafting 80s-Style Power Ballads Onto The Story of a Renaissance Visionary Yields Assertive But Awkward Results by Dennis Harvey

With science denialism and theocratic politics both on the rise, it's an opportune moment to revisit the life of Galileo Galilei, whose discoveries about the cosmos four centuries ago were c…

SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Seattle Theater Review: 'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion,' The Musical by Dennis Harvey

While the potential is still there for a musicalized "R&M" to improve upon its source, as "Legally Blonde" did, at present this loud, effortful stab at a crowdpleaser goes in the opposit…

SOURCE: Variety at 11:47AM[SHARE]

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Berkeley Theater Review: 'Monsoon Wedding,' the Musical by Dennis Harvey

An evening that feels like a brash but cloddish welding of ill-matched parts beside the original film's smooth, mosaic-like assembly.

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Sundance Film Review: 'Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton' by Dennis Harvey

This slick, entertaining portrait won't provide many surprises for those who've followed the subject's high-profile career, but should fascinate the less familiar.

SOURCE: Variety at 02:53AM[SHARE]

Friday, October 17, 2014

Film Review: 'Lucky Stiff' by Dennis Harvey

With sets and costumes aiming for a vaguely '60s/'70s feel, "Lucky Stiff" onscreen is a very light black comedy in a broad, campy tenor.

SOURCE: Variety at 08:41PM[SHARE]

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Berkeley Theater Review: 'An Audience with Meow Meow' by Dennis Harvey

A little charm goes but a little way in "An Audience with Meow Meow," a show with a title character whoseÂ program bio description as a "post-post-modern diva" likewise overestimates herÂ…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]

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