Now being performed at Geva’s Nextstage through Saturday, December 27, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” comes to the stage courtesy of Rochester’s Screen Plays, a wonderfully creative theater group dedicated to performing classic American plays that were made iconic on film (in this case, the 1942 motion picture starring Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, and […]
Adam Lubitow
Film critic for CITY Newspaper, writer, iced coffee addict, and dinosaur enthusiast.
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Film Review: “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”
I think most of us can agree that some of the best moments of Peter Jackson’s films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel, “The Hobbit,” thus far have involved the malevolent dragon, Smaug. A spectacular blend of state of the art movie effects magic and pitch-perfect voice acting from Benedict Cumberbatch, Smaug was the true star […]
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Theater Review: “The Man Who Came To Dinner” at Geva’s Fielding Nextstage
Now being performed at Geva’sNextstage through Saturday, December 27, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” comes to the stage courtesy of Rochester’s Screen Plays, a wonderfully creative theater group dedicated to performing classic American plays that were made iconic on film (in this case, the 1942 motion picture starring Bette Davis, Monty Woolley, and Ann […]
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Film Review: “Wild”
If “Foxcatcher” presents a tragedy of lofty aspirations gone horribly wrong, “Wild” gives audiences an inspirational tale of finding strength from within. While director Jean-Marc Vallée’s “Dallas Buyers Club,” left me cold, his new film is intimate and honest in a way that that film wanted to be but never was. Stripped of her usual […]
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Film Review: “Foxcatcher”
The bulk of the awards season chatter for Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” has centered around the revelatory performances of stars Steve Carell and Channing Tatum. As the distorted mentor and mentee at the center of Miller’s grimly compelling true-crime drama, both actors deliver transformative performances showcasing abilities beyond anything either has previously demonstrated. Tatum portrays Olympic […]
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Theater Review: “Naked in Encino” at JCC’s CenterStage
The title of Wendy Kout’s “Naked in Encino” conjures up images of performers stripped to their birthday suits, frolicking in the California sun, but in reality its indecent exposure is somewhat more metaphorical in nature. While the play (a world premiere being staged at the JCC CenterStage Theatre through December 21) promises its characters’ hearts […]
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Film Review: “Nightcrawler”
Now that we’ve just about reached the midpoint of December, we’re officially well into Oscar season. Around this time, studios occasionally decide to give their films another shot at box office success, expanding their most prestigious releases into more theaters so as to better capitalize on any potential Oscar buzz, or alternatively, to create some. […]
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Film Review: “The Homesman”
With its bleak, unsparing depiction of life on the frontier in the 1850’s, “The Homesman” stands in stark contrast to what we tend to think of as a traditional Western. Far from the romantic odes to the heroic figures of the Old West we’re used to seeing, the film instead delivers a mournful tale of […]
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Film Review: “Art and Craft”
Over the course of 30 years, Mark Landis earned a reputation as one of the most prolific and notorious art forgers around. He produced painstaking re-creations of the paintings and sketches of artists from Monet to Charles Schultz for art institutions across the country — more than 60 museums in 20 states. But despite this […]
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Film Review: “Beyond the Lights”
The release of “Beyond the Lights” signals the heartening reemergence of a film genre that’s sadly become increasingly rare to find at the multiplex these days: the adult romantic drama. Films in which the developing love between two characters gets treated as the focus of the story, and not a side product of whatever high-concept […]
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FILM | Witness Palestine Film Series
The Witness Palestine Film Series is an annual event which utilizes the medium of cinema to shed a light on an underrepresented point of view in the Middle East conflict: that of the Palestinian people. Presenting a collection of documentary and narrative films that focus on the issue of human rights, the event seeks to […]
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“Citizenfour”
In January of 2013, activist and filmmaker Laura Poitras received a series of encrypted e-mails from an anonymous sender claiming to have proof that the public had been duped, and that the National Security Agency had been lying about the extent of its ability to spy on American citizens. The sender identified himself only with […]
