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‘You People’ shines with feel-good rom-com format, self-aware humor
By Rya Vallabhaneni | February 6“You People” confronts the cultural differences between its two leads.
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Brown Ballet Company leaps into University dance scene
By Isabel Hahn | February 6Brown Ballet Company aims to fulfill students’ ballet needs one pirouette at a time.
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ sacrifices story for spectacle
By Drew Lerner | February 2While 'Avatar: The Way of Water' is frequently boring, the computer-generated spectacle proves James Cameron is one of the best filmmakers in Hollywood.
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‘Being Thunder’ celebrates Sherenté Harris ’23 as they navigate dance, two-spirit identity
By Neil Mehta | February 1Sherenté Harris ’23 was only 14 years old when they met director Stéphanie Lamorré. Lamorré “wanted to make a film about Indigenous people, but when she discovered me she became really interested in (specifically) telling a story about me and my people,” Harris said. The ...
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‘Aftersun’ moves viewers with subtle storytelling, compelling characters
By Finn Kirkpatrick | January 29‘Aftersun,’ starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, is a character-driven narrative of familial love and memory.
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Small Victories, big parties: How founder Alex Norocea ’14 is putting ‘Providence on the map’
By Magdalena Del Valle | January 29Small Victories showcases student artists during “Winter White Out” party on Friday. The organization has hosted events for University students since Alex Norocea's ’14 sophomore year.
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‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ weaves emotional storytelling with punchy animation
By Ashley Guo | January 29Puss, aimless and forced into retirement, embarks on a fantastical journey to find the Wishing Star.
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Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ offers more than royal family slander
By Daphne Dluzniewski | January 26The memoir truly shines in Prince Harry’s narration of his vulnerable journey through grief, healing, and belonging.
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‘The Menu’ offers compelling, comedic class commentary
By Rya Vallabhaneni | January 25“The Menu” is a film obsessed with class. From its first to final scenes, the movie covers one of the most exclusive and extravagant dinners ever made with some of America’s wealthiest citizens in attendance. At first, the film appears to largely focus on aesthetics, focusing on the food, the ...
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Heart, humor, horror: The ten best films of 2022
By Finn Kirkpatrick | January 25The year 2022 saw a strong lineup of films released. As award season comes and goes, it’s important to look back on the year and consider what great works made a lasting impact. Some new voices were brought front and center, and some old voices proved their continued relevance. Genres were bent, ...
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‘A series of character portraits’: Modern adaptation of ‘Antigone’ performs for one night only
By Dennis Carey | December 21Earlier this month, a small group of University students condensed the process of putting on "Antigone" into less than a month — concluding in a one-night-only performance at T.F. Green Hall Dec. 7. The production, directed by Emily Mayo ’24, was cast, staged and rehearsed in only four weeks ...
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Why do so many fictional characters attend Brown?
By Rebecca Carcieri | December 7What do Brian Griffin from “Family Guy,” Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex and the City,” Cliff Calley from “West Wing” and Andrea Sachs from “The Devil Wears Prada” all have in common? They all walked through the Van Wickle Gates. The Herald spoke to authors and screenwriters whose characters ...
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Students turn to movies, music, traditions for Holiday cheer
By Lynn Nguyen | December 6From gathering around the television to watch a Christmas movie with family to having a feast full of special holiday dishes while listening to Mariah Carey croon, most students have unique traditions associated with the holiday season.
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Students redecorate List stairwell with paintings of toilet bowls, politicians
By Magdalena Del Valle | December 6Anyone who has walked up the staircases of Brown’s List Art Building in the past decade might expect to find the walls covered in graffiti and paintings by students. But earlier this year, the walls were painted over in white — giving new students a blank canvas to work with as the process of ...
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‘Bones and All’ tells bland love story with flashy exterior
By Finn Kirkpatrick | December 5Two lovers, both on the fringe of society, chart out a journey through America’s backroads searching for normalcy in a world that rejects them. The story sounds cute, right? Think again. The bond these lovers share is not one that would be Hallmark-approved, because their status as societal outcasts ...
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Musical Forum’s ‘Fly By Night’ navigates grief, fate through music, comedy
By Katie Jain | December 5Musical Forum’s production of “Fly By Night,” a dark-yet-touching comedy musical, played five shows over three nights in Alumnae Hall this past weekend.
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‘Wednesday’: Addams Family themed show is great at horror comedy, lacks in plot
By Livia Gimenes | December 5With streaming platforms constantly pumping out so many reboots, spin-offs and revivals, it’s rare to find one – especially in the young adult genre – that doesn’t feel like an uninspired cash grab. “Wednesday,” released on Netflix on Nov. 23, is here to surprise viewers with an entertaining ...
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‘The Noel Diary’ rejects holiday rom-com absurdity, fails to deliver memorable plot, characters
By Alex Nadirashvili | December 2Amidst the arrival of the holiday season, Netflix has been filling its roster of new releases with more and more cliché Christmas titles — including “The Noel Diary,” a film starring Justin Hartley and Barrett Doss of “This is Us” and “Station 19” fame, respectively. Based on a quasi-autobiographical, ...
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Brockhampton’s final albums reflect band's time together with classic sound
By Kaitlyn Torres | November 30On Nov. 17, hip-hop collective Brockhampton released what fans thought would be their final album, “The Family.” But just an hour after the initial release, the band dropped a second album, “TM,” rounding off their final year together as a group.
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‘Glass Onion’ takes viewers on extravagant joyride from start to finish
By Finn Kirkpatrick | November 28If today’s studio filmmaking has supposedly lost its creativity, then Rian Johnson’s movies are a refreshing exception. With “Looper,” he told a compelling and original action story that is easily one of the best science fiction films of the 21st century to date. He followed that up with ...
