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What to Watch: The 19 Best Movies and TV Shows From November
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What to Watch: The 19 Best Movies and TV Shows From November

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Here’s a roundup of the month’s most noteworthy movies and TV shows, as covered by The Wall Street Journal’s critics.SaltburnMore than any film I’ve seen this year, Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” is guaranteed to generate a strong reaction: The first time I saw it I had the impression that half the audience wanted to find Ms. Fennell in order to congratulate her, and the other half wanted to burn down the theater.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold’ Review: Scanning a Hazy Picture
1Dec By adminNo Comments
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‘María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold’ Review: Scanning a Hazy Picture

Brooklyn, N.Y.There are lots of ways to describe María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Photographer and painter; performer and installation artist; Cubana who is both proud and critical of her birthplace; descendant of Nigerian and Cantonese ancestors; diasporic cosmopolitan who has lived in Boston, Italy and Nashville. Among this maelstrom of identities, the title of her first New York survey offers a challenge to both viewer and curator: “Behold.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘Bonnard’s Worlds’ Review: Daily Scenes, Audacious Paintings
25Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘Bonnard’s Worlds’ Review: Daily Scenes, Audacious Paintings

Fort Worth, TexasPierre Bonnard ranks among the most adventurous and innovative modernist artists. At the same time, he is one of the most responsive to what the painter and critic Andrew Forge called “terrifically real things.” Everything in Bonnard’s mature paintings threatens to dissolve into sheets of ravishing, unstable color and a dizzying array of marks. We revel in seductive, unexpected encounters of staccato touches of eggplant purple and cinnabar red, marzipan pink and dull ochre, mouth-puckering yellow and acid green, almost without thinking about what those gatherings of sensual hues might conjure up. Space pulses and tips. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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When Is a Festival Not a Festival?
22Nov By adminNo Comments
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When Is a Festival Not a Festival?

The California Festival, which ran at various venues across the state earlier this month, featured some distinguished classical-music performances but proved curiously incoherent as a whole.
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‘Florencia en el Amazonas’ Review: Exuberant Spanish Singing at the Metropolitan Opera
21Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘Florencia en el Amazonas’ Review: Exuberant Spanish Singing at the Metropolitan Opera

New YorkThe Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s “Florencia en el Amazonas,” which had its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Thursday, is well-traveled; it has had several productions and been seen in numerous opera houses since its 1996 world premiere at the Houston Grand Opera. There are reasons for its popularity—lush orchestration, ear-pleasing vocal lines, a romantic story—and as one of very few operas in Spanish, it’s a good choice for companies eager to attract Spanish-speaking audiences. It is the Met’s first opera by a Latin American composer and only its third Spanish-language offering (the previous ones were in 1916 and 1926). The resurrected New York City Opera imported a production from Nashville to give the opera its New York premiere in 2016. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company...
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‘David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived’ Review: Harry Potter’s Stuntman Perseveres
14Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived’ Review: Harry Potter’s Stuntman Perseveres

‘The gift that keeps on taking” is how the inexplicably good-humored David Holmes describes his broken neck, suffered during the making of the “Harry Potter” films, on which he had served as principal stunt double for Daniel Radcliffe. Mr. Radcliffe, who is a major presence in and force behind the documentary “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived,” helps tell the story of Mr. Holmes’s journey from movie set to wheelchair, one that might have left a viewer a tear-stained wretch except for the camaraderie on display, and the enchantment of lifelong friendships.As Mr. Radcliffe tells us, he all but grew up with Mr. Holmes, who was just a few years older than the 11-year-old unknown selected to play Harry Potter—“the boy who lived,” as Potter fans well know—and who served as a mentor-hero for the ...
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