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Review of Cyrano (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 23 Feb 2022

With its overly solemn, by-the-numbers approach, “Cyrano’' doesn’t make a strong enough case for another go at the story…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 09 Dec 2021

There have been countless iterations of this masterwork (it was revived again on Broadway as recently as last year), but Spielberg and…

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Review of The Humans (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 24 Nov 2021

Karam uses lingering closeups, off-kilter camera angles, and half-heard conversations from other rooms to heighten the film’s aura of…

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Review of tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 18 Nov 2021

When coupled with the itchy urgency of Garfield’s outstanding performance as Jon, the brio with which Miranda infuses tick, tick … BOOM…

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Review of Diana: The Musical (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 01 Oct 2021

As biography, Diana is shallow and reductive, checking the boxes of an extremely well-known story with numbing predictability…

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Review of The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 Sep 2021

As a Goodfellas-ish crime drama that vividly evokes time and place, Saints is rendered with enough bare-knuckled verve, unpredictability,…

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Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 27 Sep 2021

Director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Wonder) and screenwriter Steven Levenson work the levers of emotional…

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Review of Come from Away (2021)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 09 Sep 2021

All drama asks you to suspend disbelief, but Come From Away asks you also to suspend cynicism, aiming to move and uplift you…

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Review of What the Constitution Means to Me (2020)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 Oct 2020

Schreck matches the wit and fire of her writing with a riveting performance that often does not feel like a performance at all, but rather…

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Review of The King of Staten Island (2020)

By Don Aucoin (10) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 11 Jun 2020

The laughs in The King of Staten Island are earned, and they are frequent — a frequency that is no small accomplishment, given the pain…

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