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## Featured

## Film Review: Troubled “Dreams”

November 17, 2025

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### Film Review: Troubled “Dreams”

## Coming Attractions: November 9 Through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

## Coming Attractions

## Coming Attractions: November 9 Through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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## Film Review: Troubled “Dreams”

## Classical Album Review: “Pictures from Finland” — Roll Over Sibelius?

## Jazz Album Reviews: Sounding Freedom — Two Journeys Through the Avant-Garde and History

## Visual Arts Review: The Spirit and the Street — Allan Rohan Crite’s Portrait of Community

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## Music

## Classical Album Review: “Pictures from Finland” — Roll Over Sibelius?

By Jonathan Blumhofer | November 16, 2025

Though Sibelius’s music has come to define whatever Finnish music is supposed to sound like, he certainly wasn’t the country’s only active, turn-of-the-20th-century composer.

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## Visual Arts

## Visual Arts Review: The Spirit and the Street — Allan Rohan Crite’s Portrait of Community

By Lauren Kaufmann | November 16, 2025

As an artist, Allan Crite was always observing, drawing, and thinking about his Boston—the buildings, streets, parks, and playgrounds of Lower Roxbury and the South End.

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## Film

## Film Review: Troubled “Dreams”

By Peter Keough | November 17, 2025

This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson’s sublime 2011 novella.

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## Books

## Book Review: Canceling Equality — Julia Ioffe’s Personal and Political History of Russian Women

By Clea Simon | November 13, 2025

This heartbreaking book documents the history of contemporary Russia through its women.

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## Poetry at The Arts Fuse

## Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 14, 2025

This week’s poem: Jiwon Choi’s “Let Me Say I Am Fuchsia”

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## Dance

## Dance Review: From Light to Darkness, Music from the Sole Finds Its Groove

By Jessica Lockhart | October 21, 2025

The blend of rhythmic dance and gorgeous music made for a very harmonious collaboration.

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## Theater

## Theater Review: “Kim’s Convenience” — Gentle Comedy, Missing Urgency

By Robert Israel | November 8, 2025

“Kim’s Convenience” offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family’s struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.

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## Television

## Television Review: PBS’s “The American Revolution” — It’s All in the Details

By Ed Symkus | November 14, 2025

Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David P. Schmidt, along with screenwriter Geoffrey C. Ward, make learning history both accessible and enjoyable.

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## Podcasts

## Short Fuse Podcast #74: Shakespeare in South Africa —  Now and Then

By Elizabeth Howard | October 15, 2025

Host Elizabeth Howard talks to South African Shakespeare scholar Chris Thurman about how the Bard is regarded, discussed, and performed in a postcolonial, post-apartheid country.

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## Short Fuses

## November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

By Arts Fuse Editor | November 1, 2025

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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## Spotlight

## Cultural Commentary: France Marks the 10th Anniversary of the Bataclan Attacks

By Douglas Kennedy | November 15, 2025

The aftermath of a terrorist act becomes an opportunistic event for those selling us a certain bill of partisan geo-political goods… while simultaneously diminishing our latitude as citizens.

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*The Arts Fuse* was established in June, 2007 as a curated, independent online arts magazine dedicated to publishing in-depth criticism, along with high quality previews, interviews, and commentaries. The publication's over 70 freelance critics (many of them with decades of experience) cover dance, film, food, literature, music, television, theater, video games, and visual arts. Support arts coverage that believes that culture matters.

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## Recent Posts

##### Film Review: Troubled “Dreams”

November 17, 2025

##### Classical Album Review: “Pictures from Finland” — Roll Over Sibelius?

November 16, 2025

##### Jazz Album Reviews: Sounding Freedom — Two Journeys Through the Avant-Garde and History

November 16, 2025

##### Visual Arts Review: The Spirit and the Street — Allan Rohan Crite’s Portrait of Community

November 16, 2025

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