单词 | riveting |
例句 | It is just an audition, but riveting nonetheless. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z With my eyes on Mr. Krispin, I nod, like I can’t bear to be torn away from his riveting roll call. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She left a riveting bitter blob of cucumber froth behind. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad held up his right hand to his face, as if to shield it from Mom’s riveting gaze. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And, most riveting of all, “They found real weapons at Number Thirty-eight.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Some reviewers had called it a “good” book, and one had even used the word “riveting.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We seem particularly riveting to the pair from District 6, who are known morphling addicts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A few nights later, after a riveting afternoon answering Miss Myrna letters, Stuart and I sit in the relaxing room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “What we really need is something so riveting that even President Snow won’t be able to tear himself away. Got anything like that?” asks Haymitch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But most riveting of all were slides of the upper body of a CO who’d been slashed all around the neck and face and back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were riveting; it was hard to keep my eyes forward. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Marti had brought a duplicate copy of the asphalt rock and offered riveting details of her capture. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He leaned across the table, fixing me with those riveting tawny eyes of his. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s a small rectangle of metal, and I have to hit it over and over again with a riveting hammer until it is completely covered with little round divots. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z My sister and I never talked much, because I only picked riveting shows about duck detectives and mouse detectives so we were riveted. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Oh good, he’s not so full of himself that he thinks his major is riveting stuff. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We stare like it’s the most riveting thing in the world, which, in the absence of our phones, it basically is. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I found her dignified ritual riveting, but when the spell was broken I realized that I needed to get going myself. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I believe I still lost a line or two during the riveting fencing match, but no one would miss them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It takes a hard question to pull her eyes off that riveting material. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was absolutely riveting to watch the simple activities of people out in the world: old men sitting in the sun, women doing their shopping, people walking their dogs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And at every point it was riveting: here was a group of eight people up on a stage without a net, creating a play before our eyes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The younger of the pair, a teen whose lambskin hat shielded eyes as dark and riveting as jet, was clearly the more talented swordsman. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In the joyous and riveting hour that followed, we would glimpse traces of those summoned ancestors, the ways they moved, revived and remixed in the dancers’ bodies with astonishing fluency. LaTasha Barnes: Let the Circle of Influence Be Unbroken 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z But as much as I enjoyed the visceral punch of the production, I found myself greedy for the riveting music of Shakespeare’s great verse. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z The film looks riveting, suspenseful and sprinkled with humor. Today's Movie Trailer: Ben Affleck's Argo 2012-05-09T15:03:51Z That said, another series that begins on Wednesday night, “Surviving Evil,” is a decided step up in class, and its premiere is particularly riveting. Television Review: In ‘Surviving Evil,’ Victims Relive Terrifying Encounters 2013-08-27T20:19:01Z While many had predicted that the 82-year-old Ms. Rivera would get a valedictory salute for her riveting turn as a vengeful zillionaire in “The Visit,” it doesn’t look likely. Tony Voters Speak, in a Royal We 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z In “Walpurgisnacht,” Ms. Mearns gives the single greatest ballerina performance of our era — hurling out fantastically bold, amazingly precise, rivetingly complex dance coloratura with musical blaze and rich colors. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In a riveting recitative Raphael describes the Earth as being without form. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z No matter how the rest of the movie shakes out, you know he’ll be riveting. The Most Anticipated Genre Movies of the Summer 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Watts, a Lisztian par excellence, concluded with a riveting account of the composer's extroverted Transcendental Etude No. 10. Pianist André Watts is playing like a teenage phenom at age 69 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Arriving at the dawn of the mambo era, this song is a riveting immersion in Puente’s rapidly coalescing sound. 10 Tito Puente Essentials for the Mambo King’s Centennial 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The Pulitzer Board hailed Wood's series as a "riveting exploration of the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers." Huff Post has a new answer to critics: a Pulitzer 2012-04-17T01:16:07Z It was riveting, and also touching, to see the wiry, bookish Mr. Greilsammer playing Rameau’s delicate gavotte and three of the variations with such tenderness and intimacy. Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z Last season, in which Hannah underwent a rigorous, and riveting, growing-up process at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop while all her friends just chilled out in Brooklyn made clearer than ever that the show is unbalanced. Review: In Season 5, Girls Becomes a Traditional Sitcom 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z That’s fair enough, but it does this riveting book a mild disservice; the memoir I read was more intricate and surprising than such an earnest descriptor lets on. A Poet Remembers Her Impulsive Trip Into a Civil War 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Mostly it was a rough astonishment, restless and altogether riveting. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z A riveting read for romance and thriller fans alike. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels for March 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Wrong called the tapes, which also include Simpson’s account of how he broke news of their mother’s death to his two children, “riveting television.” TV special to show 'charismatic' but 'manic' O.J. Simpson 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z For Lynch fans, the real find here is more than 90 minutes of riveting "Fire Walk With Me" outtakes, which are like a completely new, avant-garde Lynch feature film. Noel Murray's best DVDs of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z And he has an audience that, I suspect, is past the point of believing his actions are remotely justifiable--which does not make this series any less than absolutely riveting. Breaking Bad Watch: The One Who Knocks 2011-10-10T16:00:00Z A riveting page turn reveals a tall tree with a squirrel about to jump from a high branch. When First We Practice to Deceive 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z It was Sondheim’s articulation of the witch’s alienation and moral skepticism that was so riveting. Why “Into the Woods” Matters 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Not respectful of the lawyers, I thought, and anyway not necessary; the trial was so riveting that I briefly considered becoming one myself. I Quit Chewing Gum 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z For nearly four decades Anne Perry’s riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era. ‘Murder on the Serpentine’: The end for Anne Perry’s Thomas Pitt? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But Anderson’s brusque, quietly agitated Liz is perhaps the most riveting supporting character. Rep Stage’s ‘The Whale’ examines life’s physical and emotional struggles 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z At once riveting and disturbing, “Scarred” is a brave but messy stab at redemption, one that succeeds more as a cautionary tale than an apology. She Escaped From Nxivm. Now She’s Written a Book About the Sex Cult. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z A familiar, craggy face from films like “Winter’s Bone” and “Hell or High Water,” Dickey has long been a riveting supporting player in rural dramas. Dale Dickey takes center stage at Sundance in ‘A Love Song’ 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z In his three riveting videos — of a rolling tire, a swirling river and a scrolling brick wall — Mr. Barr also plays adroitly with the surfaces of things. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T23:20:25Z We understood not a word, of course, but the emphatic speech and balletic movements were riveting. A breathtaking Himalayan journey to ‘the rooftop of the world’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But Ms. Guan’s focus was so intense, her delivery so riveting, her singing so beautiful that those others, and the Jacquette and the Close, all faded from consciousness. In Lee Mingwei’s ‘Sonic Blossom’ at the Met, Schubert Is Intimate Installation Art 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary and with unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-09T22:08:03Z Antic, profane and riveting, these mural-like scenes replayed history as farce and masqueraded tragedy as depraved comedy. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z She was riveting — a young woman tortured with indecision — as she went off with Hades then tumbled into the underworld. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The scale of the staging dilutes some of the intensity in this production, but Murphy is riveting, even in scenes that seem over-extended. Misterman - review 2011-07-14T16:15:31Z Here, however, her eyes acquire a hollow vacancy and her face resembles a once-illuminated city suddenly plunged into darkness as she gives us a riveting portrait of the ravages of deception. Passion Play – review 2013-05-07T22:00:01Z She was already having a fine time when the Carolina Chocolate Drops singer stepped to the microphone and unleashed a riveting rendition of Odetta's traditional work song, "Waterboy." 'Tomorrow' has come for singer Rhiannon Giddens 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z The show is dominated by riveting sequences of Gauguin’s lesser-known, unceasingly experimental woodcut prints. Art Review: ‘Gauguin: Metamorphoses’ at MoMA Goes Beyond Paintings 2014-03-13T19:24:47Z And surprising given the riveting mind games director Brad Anderson managed in "The Machinist." 'Stonehearst Asylum' has gothic air, can't lock in the terror 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Their raw moments together, enhanced by the fearless work of Depardieu and Bisset, are riveting. 'Welcome to New York' a fearless take on real-life sex scandal 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “Casablanca” was intended as wartime propaganda, but it was also a riveting potboiler of romance and intrigue that won Oscars for best picture, director and screenplay. Madeleine LeBeau, French actress who sang ‘La Marseillaise’ in ‘Casablanca,’ dies at 92 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Scheherazade delays her own death by telling the king a riveting tale night after night. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z A one-man show about a horribly disfigured woman: Pat Kinevane's riveting 'Underneath' In 'Model Apartment' at the Geffen, family scars are skin deep — and to the bone 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Nasseri’s reading of Liszt’s Beethoven transcription was riveting and powerful. Review: Pianist Soheil Nasseri Puts a New Touch on Classical Standards 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Through the abstraction onstage comes the intense performance of Ms. Komsi, who was riveting on Friday. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z Based on true events, “Christine” is riveting and not just because Campos builds to the dramatic moment when the troubled newscaster shoots herself. The enduring tragedy of Christine Chubbuck: “She got headlines for blood and guts, which is what she abhorred” 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Instead, they are riveting, confounding and, as exchanges between Jones and her mother attest, personal. ‘Sell/Buy/Date’ Review: The Topic of Sex Work, From All Sides 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Levingston’s account of Birmingham, which chronicles the city’s impact on each protagonist, is simply riveting. Kennedy and King: The remarkable intersection of two great lives 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The most riveting section of Axelrod's memoir begins there, as Obama moves to Washington and gradually is drawn to running for president. Political consultant David Axelrod delivers in revealing 'Believer' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Their final scenes are at once riveting and hard to watch. Review: In ‘The Salesman,’ Scenes From a Marriage in Tehran 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z “Whitney” is being shown in conjunction with “Bobby Brown: Remembering Whitney,” an hourlong interview with Mr. Brown conducted by the journalist Shaun Robinson, which is far more riveting than the film that occasions its existence. Whitney Houston’s Story in a Lifetime Film 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The result is carefully textured and compulsively readable, peopled by full-blooded characters and driven by a riveting plot. 'And When She Was Good': Laura Lippman at 'top of her game' 2012-08-16T20:53:04Z A riveting follow-up to last year’s Jay DeFeo retrospective at the Whitney Museum, this exhibition of drawings, photographs and photocopies finds this artist moving past her ponderous masterpiece, “The Rose,” in fits and starts. Jay DeFeo 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Bowie’s last recording until now was released in 2003: Reality, an inoffensive rock record free of riveting melodies or mysteries. David Bowie: Back to His Mysterious Best 2013-03-07T12:00:25Z ‘PRIMA FACIE’ On “Killing Eve,” Jodie Comer proved to be transfixing, so this riveting solo show will certainly be a highlight of the spring season. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z She sings this demanding role with plush sound and emotional intensity and brings her star power, in the best sense, to a riveting portrayal of the ruthless character. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The book will be a "riveting personal story," according to Blue Rider. Madoff daughter-in-law in deal for tell-all memoir 2011-05-19T16:16:05Z Some of his dialogue scenes — including a riveting colloquy between the questing Marianne and the questioning bishop — have the shape, rhythm and sorrowful wit of a Sondheim song. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Sadly, this week’s “Designated Survivor” proved unable to maintain this delicate act: It has a riveting A Story, but a labored B Story and an unimportant and mawkish C Story. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Oyelowo gives a riveting, disorienting and suspenseful tour of an unraveling mind. Review: David Oyelowo, Going Mad in ‘Nightingale’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z "Imitation Game" ... the story is riveting, but I found it less compelling than "The Theory of Everything," which was really well-done in the way it focused on the relationship. Oscar picks of three academy voters: a producer, a director, an actress 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z At the Anthem on Tuesday night, the 76-year-old Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner only added to his reputation for intrigue, performing a 20-song show that felt both riveting and oddly removed. Review | A Bob Dylan concert is still as challenging as ever. But why try to change him now? 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Gillian Wearing, “Everyone,” at Regen Projects. Wearing is known for creating riveting video pieces that play with ideas of truth and lies. Datebook: Brazil artist books, underground photos & Guerrilla Girls 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The performance was riveting; the ovation much deserved. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Either way, scale can become mutable, hard to measure, which is riveting. Dia Chelsea, Keeper of the Avant-Garde Flame 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z If Sea Bags could talk, they would regale us with maritime stories as riveting as Patrick O’Brian sagas. Think Freeport is all outlets? Made in Maine shops will show you otherwise. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Season 2 does not lack for engaging components, although David E. Kelley doesn’t smoothly blend those parts into a riveting whole in his scripts. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Miranda Raison, directly addressing the Globe audience whom she sees as "godless demons", creates a rivetingly plausible Anne more concerned with evangelical zeal than missionary positions. Anne Boleyn 2010-07-29T20:29:00Z Still, the opera is often riveting, with passages of great beauty interspersed among the ponderous moments. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z A lovely woman, she is a riveting actress, who achingly conveyed that Cassandra feels cursed by her prophetic powers. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z In these pages, Francisco Goldman called the book “riveting” and “magnificent.” New in Paperback: ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘What You Have Heard Is True’ 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Directors such as Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet and Spike Lee dealt with serious moral questions, and made urban realism riveting. Down and dirty in city hall 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The current performance, running through May 2, includes a riveting routine that covers just about everything you can do with Ping-Pong balls while retaining a PG rating. The Europe Issue: A Weekend in Munich 2010-04-15T21:18:00Z Doesn’t sound like riveting television, but that show and the nine others that followed doubled Discovery Channel’s ratings in prime time. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Bekbosunov is a wild, riveting performer who wields his powerful voice with heavy metal abandon and embodies over-the-top characters like a glam rocker. 'David Lynch, the Musical'? Not quite, but close, in 'Artaud in the Black Lodge' 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter called it a film of "riveting assurance" while the Guardian saw it as "a raw reminder of a sad and painful past". Belfast-set thriller penned by ITN man Tom Bradby set for cinema debut 2012-08-20T17:13:14Z I found myself tearing into the riveting tale for the better part of the vacation. Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Part of what makes the prints so riveting is their continual experimentation. Art Review | Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, a Retrospective of a Deeply German Artist 2010-03-11T23:25:00Z Written in five movements, Mr. Ruders’s riveting quartet opens with a series of quizzical chords that morph into hazy, scratchy harmonies, until the music breaks into a dancelike episode. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z Greed and corruption are woven through this riveting and complex documentary by Gemma Atwal. Ten of the best running documentaries 2013-03-01T07:53:41Z Yet for all Jason's impulsiveness, he is, in Neldam's riveting portrayal, resourceful and compassionate -- an upright young man. A family on the verge of 'Colony Collapse' 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Willner joined Webb to deliver a truncated but riveting rendition of “Howl,” the only performance of the evening to receive a unanimous standing ovation. Allen Ginsberg celebrated by rock stars at the Ace Hotel in L.A. 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The elegies, foreshadowing the loss of a boy on a train, are riveting. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s so spicy, so riveting, so empathetic and devoted, so alive in the world as it actually is. Jia Tolentino Wants You to Read Children’s Books 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The doctor’s dilemma and that of his suffering young patient play out rivetingly in Constellation’s fine staging. Constellation Theatre revives ‘Equus’ to great effect 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z That makes for a strange brew, both riveting and soporific. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The French version, which was recently shown on the Sundance Channel and will be rerun there in a marathon on Sunday, was riveting because it was so veiled and withholding. Television Review: New TV Fantasies: ABC’s ‘Resurrection’ and NBC’s ‘Believe’ 2014-03-07T00:03:48Z For house music purists, SHM have been off the radar since the backlash surrounding their possibly pre-recorded sets, and no amount of crisp production or riveting track selection could atone for that mistake. Swedish House Mafia Pushes Electronic Dance Music to the Max on Until Now 2012-10-26T12:00:44Z He found the book’s tone “therapized and flat,” and said that Ms. Bechdel’s mother was “a kinder, less complex, less riveting figure” than her father. ArtsBeat: Alison Bechdel Talks About Drawing, Writing, Family and Shame 2012-05-10T15:27:03Z A portrait of the artist as political and poetic ingénue, “What You Have Heard Is True” is just such a response, a riveting account of how she made good on that conviction. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It was a riveting performance, vocally and physically unsettled and unsettling, with Mr. Bostridge’s fingerprints left on the Steinway to prove it. From Stephanie Blythe to Ian Bostridge, Favorite Recitals of the Year 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z In three riveting videos of a rolling tire, a swirling river and a scrolling brick wall, Mr. Barr also plays adroitly with the surfaces of things. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z Watching Laura eat and gaze at “super awesome” waves is far from riveting, and glimpses of her exotic stopovers are much too brief to engage. Movie Review: Setting Sail, Alone, Around the World at 14 2014-01-17T00:20:24Z I saw that riveting Broadway production of Marat/Sade during a college vacation week. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z “Quarry’s” eight episodes build out an absorbing story, rivetingly told. The best TV shows of 2016: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ ‘Veep’ and ‘ The Americans’ lead the pack 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z For those who do "get it", Trash is a riveting, emotional read that doesn't pull its punches. Andy Mulligan talks Trash 2010-12-20T14:00:00Z Ms. Trevigne was riveting as Pip: first boyish and jolly, later haunting in madness. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z Although maybe reading it for the first time at any age would still produce the riveting suspense of a great story. Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z “Her tone, it’s beautiful and riveting,” he said. Kali Uchis Is a Complicated Musician. She Plans to Stay That Way. 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z “On a superficial level, ‘In Cold Blood’ is a murder story of riveting vitality and suspense. “In Cold Blood” turns 50: Capote’s spellbinding true crime novel gave us “The Jinx,” “Serial” and “Making a Murderer” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Finley was riveting as the calculating lawyer Stern, who one moment despairs of trying to control Anna’s over-eating and drug dependencies, and the next moment schemes to hype her for the cameras. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z Dinko's story keeps the novel moving, but it's the cops who bring it to absorbing, riveting life, together with Wambaugh's gripping, convincing vision of the melting pot of cultures that is LA. Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh – review 2012-12-16T00:05:02Z Chloe Caldwell’s story had me from its riveting first sentence: “I got a pedicure each time I promised myself I’d stop doing heroin — which is to say, I got pedicures all summer.” Sex, drugs and superheroes: Our 10 best personal essays 2013-12-31T12:45:00Z It remains a riveting collection of songs from the band’s creative and commercial zenith. Soundgarden talks about 20th anniversary of ‘Superunknown' 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But a significant number of the new fall campaigns are riveting, rivaling, and even outpacing, mainstream print editorial, for brass, inventiveness and cultural resonance. Cheeky ?Ads? With a Whiff of Parody 2011-11-04T17:53:12Z It was just two people sitting at a table talking, but it was electric and riveting. Steve McQueen on the Oscars whitewash: ‘I’m hoping we can look back and say this was a watershed moment’ 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Not so much, according to the raw and riveting new production of “Romeo and Juliet” that opened Wednesday at the Almeida Theater here. Review: In London, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Feels Startlingly New 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z At 623 pages of text, plus sources and footnotes, the work may seem daunting, but it remains riveting throughout. Book Review Podcast: 'Stalin's Daughter' 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The B-girl dancer and choreographer also known as Bounce, Asherie is as riveting a performer as Dorrance, but “A Little Room,” despite its brevity, felt rambling. Review: Michelle Dorrance Returns to the Joyce. Where’s the Zip? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Kristine McKenna, who reviewed the show for this paper, described it as "rivetingly weird," an installation that drew vital attention "to the complex and fragile interplay between spirit and flesh." Regen Projects, at 25, has grown into a fixture in L.A. art world 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z As an elucidation of the mysteries of human behavior, in fact, it may be his most riveting. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Today, tuning in feels like being deposited, lightly buzzed, into warm quicksand, and forgetting to extricate yourself because the marsh wildlife is riveting. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z In the article that resulted, a riveting, hilarious work of cinematic journalism, she nailed, among other quirks, Hemingway’s idiosyncratic, article-free “Indian talk:” “Book is like engine,” Hemingway told her. Lillian Ross’s (Many) Choice Words 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But Wilder doesn’t have the stage presence to make Francis’s antics riveting. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage All told, Holmes provides a riveting, multilayered psychological profile to explore. Hulu's "The Dropout" brings its A-game with Amanda Seyfried's powerful take on Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “Part of what makes this book so riveting is Ellsworth’s skillful narration, his impeccable sense for when to reveal a piece of information and when to hold something back.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Executed in colored pencil, they are modest, completely riveting and highly unstable. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s a performance every bit as riveting as anything she recorded with Atlantic – “one of the triumphs of her career,” Heilbut says. Aretha Franklin, America and the origin of the 'spirit feel' 2012-10-29T18:23:00Z “Richard III” was a natural choice for that treatment, and whenever Mr. Lew’s update questions or complicates Shakespeare’s assumptions, even if that means departing from his template, it is riveting. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The jokes seemed to serve the stories rather than the other way around — and what makes them riveting, and occasionally funny, is less content than form. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z It is an interesting approach, but Mayer’s playing was so riveting that you found yourself wishing that Sharp would maybe just stay quiet for a bit and let the music speak for itself. A fresh take on the rarely heard music of Charles Ives 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The show had a scattershot quality, like it was being made to look less scripted than it was, and the banter between O'Brien and Richter wasn't riveting. Conan O'Brien legally prohibited from being funny 2010-04-13T19:33:00Z Meanwhile, Strick had moved to Britain, where he made a riveting TV documentary called The Hecklers about the 1966 general election. Joseph Strick obituary 2010-06-17T18:02:00Z Delbanco’s riveting and unsettling book shows how questions that preoccupied Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continue to resonate in our own. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Her novels about Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, are not only riveting stories, but they recast a controversial historical figure while contemplating the nature of power. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Set in an alternate Tudor England, Megan Campisi’s wonderful debut novel “Sin Eater” is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment that weaves together meticulous research, unsolved murder — and an unforgettable young heroine. Review | For fans of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z On this later occasion, he conducted a confident and riveting account of the score, often enhancing the drama and tension by restraining tempos eerily and bringing out inner details. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Chairs at the Met 2013-12-06T22:52:05Z The weakness in his book is its subject: Warburg's life work was not the stuff of a riveting narrative. 'High Financier': Niall Ferguson on the banker who helped make London a capital of finance 2010-06-23T23:38:00Z Being appropriated by a person, like being appropriated by a mental illness, feels flattering and violating and queasy and riveting and boring. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z But perhaps no one on earth cares less about football than I do, and I still found it riveting. What to Watch This Weekend: ‘Last Chance U’ and ‘Rolling Papers’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Yet this film, like Baker’s onstage playing, is always riveting, and something you can’t look away from. ‘Beware of Mr. Baker’: a riveting documentary about drummer Ginger Baker 2013-02-28T23:23:56Z He first sang the role in this production in Geneva in 1996, and his interpretation is riveting. Melancholy Hamlet returns to Met after 113 years 2010-03-17T06:01:00Z She's even created bingo cards for us to play along, featuring the most irritating words used in book reviews – "compelling", "haunting", "riveting", "sweeping" and "x meets x" being a small selection. Eyes down for the cliches: it's time to play Book Review Bingo 2010-03-17T12:15:00Z Reading about musicians' lives can be riveting but Lethem reminds you that sometimes all you need to do is put a record on, lean in and listen. Christmas gifts 2012: the best music books 2012-11-29T08:00:04Z She turns that experience into a riveting Silicon Valley tell-all that will captivate those working within and outside of the dot-com revolution. The 10 books to read in January 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z An internal drama of sorts, conveying little of the action associated with the biblical hero, it proved moderately stageworthy if only for the riveting presence of the indomitable tenor Jon Vickers in the title role. Music Review: ?Messiah? by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Review 2011-12-05T23:25:14Z But it's primarily a low-key but riveting star turn, from an actress who's long waited for one. 'Hello I Must Be Going' is perfect for actress Melanie Lynskey 2012-09-20T20:47:06Z The ways in which eyes, shoulders, arms and hands moved together were riveting with both soloists. Dance Review: Hindu Deities Conjure Magic in Movement Downtown 2010-08-18T21:55:00Z The quartet-in-residence at Ohio Wesleyan is known for its riveting live performances. Blue Man Group, Pilobolus are arts highlights 2011-09-28T23:43:06Z The lessons of the study may seem obvious now, but this portrayal of a 1971 experiment in which a Stanford University researcher turned student volunteers into either prison guards or inmates is riveting. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s a riveting image — perhaps due most to the patent lack of wrath in Damon’s expression. The Bourne Masculinity: Matt Damon’s hyper-aggressive, emotionally fragile “good guy with a gun” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z And last but not least, Prince Caspian wrote a riveting review of Horrid Henry's Car Journey by Francesca Simon. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-21T08:01:00Z And it is well served by the conductor Matthew Aucoin — his orchestra committed, if less rivetingly rigorous than the recording’s — and an excellent cast. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s built on a foundation of riveting audio that tells a larger story about the complex and tortured relationship between race, violence, and justice in America. “The Hurricane Tapes”: Will a British Podcast Solve the Hurricane Carter Case? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Others might regard him as a conscienceless, borderline psychopath, and the riveting central performance by Rhys Ifans, who plays Marks as a charming, raffish boyo from the Welsh valleys, doesn't wholly preclude such an interpretation. Mr Nice ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z “When he came back and read, it was riveting. He was goofy and intelligent and a rebel, but also handsome in his own way,” Coolidge recalled. When ‘Valley Girl’ (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Those choices could set the stage for a potentially riveting day of testimony in Greensboro, North Carolina, the state where Edwards won millions as a trial lawyer before being elected to the Senate in 1998. Ex-Senator Edwards, mistress could testify Wednesday 2012-05-16T11:29:00Z These stories were far less riveting, apparently, than the cancellation of a TV show, but they aren’t unrelated. Perspective | Canceling ‘Roseanne’ has everything to do with race and media in Trump-era America 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z She recalled almost passing on Ron Nyswaner’s script, thinking it was solely a police procedural because of the deceptive structure of the story, but calls the finished film “riveting.” Julianne Moore in Toronto: 'Go see movies with women in them' 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The cases are riveting, yet the biggest mystery of “Rogue Lawyer” is how Grisham can still devise all these distinctive characters, tricky legal predicaments and roguishly cheating ways to worm out of them. Best mystery books and thrillers of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z He is a riveting, communicative artist who appears too rarely in New York. Music Review: In a Tale of Deliverance, It?s Moses to the Rescue 2011-04-22T22:56:01Z She was just as riveting at the Met this fall in the title role of Verdi’s “Aida.” The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z It was the least rehearsed, most riveting material in an uneven hour. Review: Chris Rock’s ‘Selective Outrage’ Strikes Back 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z We compensated with riveting, original music making, everything seeming not only vital but oddly relevant. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z By the end, the commentary focused instead on the child’s preternatural state of grace set against the rivetingly and irrevocably fractured array of adults that Ms. Raine puts on view. Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z And I’m pleased to report that “Slow Burn” Season 2 is, so far—I’ve heard two episodes, the first of which was released today—a riveting listen, narratively fascinating, with relevant and urgent themes. “Slow Burn” Season 2, Reviewed: The Painful Lessons of the Clinton Impeachment 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Murphy’s astute and riveting portrait of one young man’s inability to fully reckon with his past seems to pose a disturbing question: Are there actions that simply remain unforgivable? A Young Soldier’s Moral Compromise 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Gutfeld's review raves that this play is "sad, kinda gross, kinda riveting. But it's also kinda inspiring." Why Fox News is obsessed with Johnny Depp, its Manliness Under Siege mascot 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z And those objects — more than 275 works — are often riveting in their own right, while offering essential mural context. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Everything about her is riveting, interesting, unusual, intelligent. Dance Review: Wendy Whelan Embraces Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-08-18T22:05:35Z It’s a tense, riveting video that adds even greater depth to the already meaningful song. Andrew Garfield Stars In Arcade Fire's New "We Exist" Video 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Both are front-rank exponents of the part, but the immediacy of Charles Daniels’ riveting narration benefitted notably from what might be called the built-in intimacy of Nordstrom Hall’s size and acoustics. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z In this riveting account, even the S.L.A. is shown some compassion. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z At the end of the first act, as the Council Chamber descends into chaos around him, Domingo does little but stand and sing, but the effect is riveting. Simon Boccanegra 2010-06-30T11:54:00Z The intellectual game they are playing creates a frisson, it's a riveting challenge, but there's no attraction, there's disgust. Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z Sometimes it's in fierce repudiation, as in the riveting, no-nonsense paintings and video animations of Tala Madani, which flatly objectify men to italicize male brutality. 'Made in L.A.' biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z If the overall structure was hard to discern, moment to moment the music was riveting. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z “It doesn’t need to; this stark and riveting version of events speaks for itself.” What’s on TV Saturday 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z “Nevicata” was riveting: Images of snowflakes falling from an ashen heaven are conveyed in the piano through numbing, repeated midrange tones, surrounded by elusive chords and, at the end, skittish, almost jazzy flourishes. Review: In a Flat World, a Soprano Conjures Italy 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But what this distinguished professor of history at CUNY’s Queens College does is lay out two centuries of factory production all over the world in ways that are accessible, cogent, occasionally riveting and thoroughly new. We Are What We Manufacture 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z What's extraordinary, for a film that works on these different levels, is that it also manages to be a riveting thriller. My favourite Hitchcock: Rear Window 2012-07-25T08:40:01Z "Peace . . . Like a River" is a riveting record, demonstrating Gov't Mule's quest to challenge themselves and their audience with music that is as soulful as it is imaginative. Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Reyes wrote about her harrowing early life in this series of letters to the Colombian historian and critic Germán Arciniegas, who urged her to put the riveting tales she would speak aloud down on paper. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “But it’s also going to be riveting and exciting. And that’s gonna be the trick for us — to recreate that feeling in a different place.” The Crocodile, where Nirvana, Pearl Jam and more have played, is moving, with big plans for the future 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Now he’s written another big book, “The Fireman,” that reaffirms his gifts for riveting attention and pushing genre conventions to new extremes. Review: In Joe Hill’s ‘The Fireman,’ a Plague That Sends People Up in Flames 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Second, the uniquely askew relationships at the center of the story mean that its most riveting scenes are well and truly riveting; unforgettable, even. Sex, Death and More Sex: Three Books of Fiction by Acclaimed Japanese Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z "The Academy is proud to be bringing these riveting shows to the global stage," said Bruce L. Paisner, the academy's president and CEO, in a statement accompanying a news release. 8 nominees up for International Emmys for news 2011-08-19T20:30:12Z He can be a classicist, a ballet historian, a lyrical pure-dance modernist, a comic cartoonist, a riveting children’s storyteller or an adult commentator on gender and society. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “It’s emotional, riveting storytelling that happens to be told in a documentary format,” he said. HBO Plans Documentary on Robert Durst 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z All of this is often riveting, but it can be frustrating too, because “Texas Blood” is more a box of parts than a smoothly cresting narrative. An Unconventional History of Texas, From a Writer With the State in His Veins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z None of this is subtle, but it is fast-moving and riveting. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In rehearsal, the simplicity was, surprisingly, both riveting and deeply moving. Taking ‘Fun Home’ to Orlando, for a Catharsis Onstage and Off 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Joseph Gordon, who danced Thursday’s matinee, is a marvel, always a riveting presence, but as a partner he was a little immature. New York City Ballet Introduces Its Future With a Flurry of ‘Nutcracker’ Debuts 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z He was riveting, but in the slyest possible way. 2010-02-15T01:06:00Z Her rich theatricality — raw indeed — comes into its own in the riveting last 20 minutes, when this fine actress' meltdown and reformation seems to fry her very skin. 'The Detective's Wife' probes the limits of protection 2011-06-02T19:05:39Z Bernstein chronicled many of the country’s most riveting stories even before he broke news of Nixon’s Watergate crimes, and he recounts his experiences with a mix of wonder and pride. 16 New Books Coming in January 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z She did, and brilliantly, in a riveting performance with a huge amount of perfectly contained excitement. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z In this riveting staging, instead of employing sets, a roster of actors with pasty-faced makeup and chalky costumes joined hands and made human formations to suggest walls and tables, doubling as choristers. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Now at the Metropolitan Opera, Dean and Jocelyn’s “Hamlet” is brooding, moving and riveting. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Bittersweet, rivetingly drawn, mysteriously languid: a feast for the senses. First novels: Catherine Taylor's choice – reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:02Z She was effective, not riveting, in the climactic Judgment Scene. ‘Aida’ Revival at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z The refined arc of her raised arms; the elegance with which she holds and turns her head; the plucked, lucid emphasis of her arched feet are all riveting. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Having recently peaked at No. 30 on Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop airplay chart, “Awwsome” may never sound more riveting — or more true — than it does at this moment. Six months on the trail with Shy Glizzy, Washington’s latest budding rap star 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z It is a riveting assemblage, one that smashes and rewrites stylistic boundaries. Mark Morris' 'Dido and Aeneas' an exuberant spin on ancient epic 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Revelations include the riveting tidbits that when Queen Elizabeth II was a girl, she lined up her shoes neatly and was crazy about horses. Movie Review : ‘Born to Royalty’ Looks at the Rearing of Britain’s Rulers 2013-07-18T22:37:23Z The intensity of the training, excitement of takeoff, suspense of the journey, exhilaration of the moon landing, and relief of splashdown constitute a riveting, semi-narrative arc. Remembering Al Reinert and “For All Mankind,” the Precursor to “Apollo 11” 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But Kispert’s collection allows them the spotlight, and watching them star in their own life stories is both squirm-worthy and riveting. Two Lies and a Truth: Story Collections Exploring the Spectrum of Human Honesty 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z His monologue is at once rambling and riveting, his words backed by music that blurs distinctions between jazz and contemporary classical styles. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z While on set, I witnessed a late-season sword battle in an Asian-themed nightclub that was riveting, even without knowing its context. What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z The film is a pioneering exploration of the corrupting influence of television in the wrong hands, and Griffith is riveting as a ruthless TV guru. A few ways to enjoy and celebrate Andy Griffith 2012-07-03T20:17:11Z It was really the complexity of the matter that I found riveting. Hugh Bonneville on the enduring charm of "Downton Abbey" and why he was nervous to film "Paddington" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z A riveting account of a “dream honeymoon” in South America gone very wrong, starting with a plane crash and ending with a near-death experience deep in the jungle. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Wearing is a British artist known for creating riveting video and other pieces that play with ideas of truth, secrets and lies. Datebook: Videos about secrets, photography about rising tides 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z As the photojournalist at the center of "1,000 Times Good Night," a seasoned pro who specializes in war zones, the reliably riveting Juliette Binoche is an outraged witness and relentless chronicler. '1,000 Times Good Night' powerfully frames a postwar life 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Another riveting daughter of Batsheva is in New York this week to show her own work. Fresh Works From Batsheva Dance Veterans 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z It is expansive and richly detailed but solidly structured, filled with scenes that become all the more riveting for their length. Martin Scorsese: is the director becoming more radical with age? 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z In fact, it makes ethical living not only important, but often riveting, substantive, worth the price of admission. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z A laconic though riveting musical storyteller, Mr. Clark was adept at getting at the heart of an experience or an event. Guy Clark, a King of the Texas Troubadours, Is Dead at 74 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z If “I Want My MTV” is not nearly as riveting as those earlier books, it largely has the network itself to blame. Books of The Times: ?I Want My MTV,? by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum - Review 2011-10-24T23:31:14Z The Last Train to Zona Verde is a riveting, chilling read, one that outlines a reality that sometimes seems more like the apocalyptic fiction of writers such as Cormac McCarthy. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z A treasure trove of compelling facts, riveting anecdotes, and extraordinary characters, "For the Love of Books" is a book about books—and the inside stories about the people who write them. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z It goes on like this, the footage of black experiences alternating between familiar and obscure, raw and polished, riveting and sickening, athletic and physically crippled, recent and removed in time. Perspective | One of the most powerful works of video art will be available free online this weekend. Here’s why you must watch. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z But I'll be back next week for another riveting "American Idol" recap. "American Idol" recap: Aaron Kelly goes country 2010-04-28T12:29:00Z The story of the accident itself and the attempts to save her life, which the author withholds until the end of the book, are riveting. Books of The Times: Tales of Lives Extinguished All Too Soon 2011-04-12T23:52:00Z There’s always a sense of narrative, and it’s always riveting. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The Tenet-Sebastians production was a riveting example, easily the most compelling of the recent spate of New York performances. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Now, they are a riveting live act, both because their pent-up songs explode, and because Matt drinks a bottle of wine onstage and then starts climbing things. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z The volume, which Leonard described as “riveting,” also became a National Book Award finalist and was adapted into a musical that opened in Hungary in 2006 and later played in Vienna. Frederic Morton, wartime refugee and then chronicler of Austria, dies at 90 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z It is intensely personal, cleareyed and absolutely riveting, partly because the author, thrust into an outsider’s position, developed a keen appreciation of Germany’s contradictions and paradoxes. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z It both conforms to and departs from stoner stereotypes that most conversations at Meadow Lands dug into riveting topics like zoning variances, building materials and water use rules. Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Through immersive prose and a riveting plot, Alderman explores how power corrupts everyone: those who gain it, and those resisting its loss. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Ash’s voice and perspective are the main driving forces of the book, and her narration — especially of action and anger — is riveting in its competence and bleak desperation. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The size of Kier’s role in a film — he often has only one intense scene — never matters; he is always riveting. Udo Kier, master of creepy and camp, looks back on a wild career: “I’ve made 200 films. 100 a... 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Others have praised it as "riveting from beginning to end". Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist 2010-09-07T19:22:00Z He was a big-boned a rock ‘n’ roll saxophonist with riveting stage presence and a tone that seemed to rip through the audiences. ArtsBeat: New Jersey Declares Clarence Clemons Day 2013-06-14T19:57:58Z He brought burnished tone and deep feeling to his famous aria, "Avant de quitter ses lieux," then came close to stealing the entire show with a death scene that was riveting in its raw intensity. Review: Alagna as a cartwheeling `Faust' at Met 2011-12-24T21:31:04Z Overlooked upon its theatrical debut in 1972, “Bluegrass Country Soul” is a riveting cinema verite portrait of a bluegrass festival when it was still an underground phenomenon with a rabidly loyal fan base of spectator-participants. A filmmaker reissues what some consider the definitive bluegrass documentary, featuring the Osborne Brothers 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The piece is held together by a scattering of recurrent motifs – froggy squats, territorial stamps – and by the riveting detail of its phrasing. Scottish Dance Theatre ? review 2011-03-22T19:15:01Z Oliver Butler’s rivetingly intelligent production includes no special effects except the kind achieved by words. Review: Can a Play Make the Constitution Great Again? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z That much is clear after the premiere on Wednesday of Richard Nelson’s riveting new drama, “What Do We Need to Talk About? Conversations on Zoom.” Review | A play premieres online — and it couldn’t be more relevant to how we are right now 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But the death of a child, generally treated with mawkishness, is handled here with riveting creepiness — not to mention a hint of bad taste. Crime Sprees, Both Creepy and Comic 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Let's hope this sideshow does not impact on the film itself, a riveting and unflinching rite of passage built around two intensely committed performances. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z The Kelly-Gingrich dust-up made for riveting TV — and it was good to see her taking no prisoners — but it wasn’t Kelly’s top moment. Megyn Kelly’s killer moment with Gingrich was a welcome return to badassery 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The use of time is what makes the dream ballet so disconcerting for some and so riveting for others. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Thomas is coolly riveting in the second banquet scene, at which Timon serves his guests a dinner of water and stones. | 'Timon of Athens': A Dinner of Water and Stones for Those Friends Who Don?t Come Through 2011-03-02T03:01:04Z The other three are as riveting as you might expect metal-detecting enthusiasts to be, which is to say that the actors playing them do a fine job of making your eyes glaze over. ‘Hangar 10,’ a Sci-Fi Tale by Daniel Simpson 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Similar revisions befell some of the other songs, with results both riveting, e.g., Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z The descriptions of the murders are tense, psychologically complex, riveting. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Fortunately, when Godzilla does finally show up, "It's a riveting spectacle." 'Godzilla' a solid if not smashing reboot, reviews say 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “There is a world within this London mansion block,” he notes, and later: “Dinner parties are more riveting than wars, and are always an occasion for a close-up. But there’s no sex.” A Novel of the Horndog in Winter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Matisse’s touch and his orchestration of complex color harmonies in these deceptive pictures are riveting. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z In the end, this riveting drama will likely be judged according to the preconceptions of the people who watch it. The Promise delivers but still divides 2011-02-14T11:27:00Z Nevertheless it is the most riveting look at the life and world of skateboarders since “Dogtown.” Tristan Patterson Directs Pool-Skating Film, ?Dragonslayer? 2011-10-22T02:53:02Z The timbral clouds she conjures from the keyboards and strings are riveting, too. Pianist Margaret Leng Tan brings her musical 'sorcery' to Seattle 2011-05-18T23:17:12Z Fortunately, Samara Joy’s harmonic ideas are riveting enough and her voice so infectious that it doesn’t feel like an exercise. Best Jazz Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s Bernstein’s contribution to the legacy of operatic mad scenes, and it’s riveting, a 14-minute tour de force for the Celebrant. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Taking as its motto a line from Wagner’s “Parsifal” — “Here time becomes space” — the concert linked fragile chamber performances and flashy orchestral tours de force spanning 400 years of music history into a riveting narrative. Review: The First Concert at the New Elbphilharmonie in Germany 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In movement, his gifts of control and changing dynamics were riveting. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012-08-02T21:53:05Z France’s riveting story spoke to me in deeply personal ways, and I wept as I recalled too many friends and colleagues who died needlessly from this plague. The man behind “How to Survive a Plague” taught us how to be activists 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z It's a rough philosophy, but it frequently makes for riveting TV. With "1923," the "Yellowstone" universe grimly enlists Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z It was in many ways a stock role, but he played it with such riveting menace, it catapulted him to fame. Alan Rickman’s unique charm: How he brought irresistibly charismatic villains and heroes with a twist of menace to life 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Each seems to be a hole punched in space: an absence with riveting presence. Back with an L.A. solo show, Joe Fay hasn't missed a step 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z In concert, however, Cloud Nothings is so unhinged that it feels as if each riveting performance could go off the rails at any moment. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z I especially like the bristling performance of the raw and riveting Orchestral Variations, Copland’s arrangement of his flinty Piano Variations. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Clinton is in London to talk about What Happened, her rivetingly candid if shell-shocked account of her defeat to Donald Trump in last year’s US presidential election. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z For all that, Robson succeeds in creating a riveting drama of female friendship, of lives fully lived despite unbearable loss, and of the steadfast effort required to bring forth beauty after surviving war. Review | How Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress diverted war-torn England 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Aboard the Calypso, Cousteau unlocked the mysteries of the sea for tens of millions of TV viewers in the 1960s and 1970s with his riveting documentary series, "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau." Cousteau's spirit to live on in centennial events 2010-06-08T19:00:00Z ESPN’s five-part documentary is gripping and educational and made what I thought was a familiar story into something completely new and riveting. What You Should Watch to Catch Up on This Summer’s Shows 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Her son—likely wrapped up in a riveting game of yarn ball with Ser Pounce—wasn’t there to greet her. Game of Thrones Recap: Season 5 Finale 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Richardson can also describe in riveting detail Picasso’s methods of painting, sculpting and drawing. ‘Picasso & the Camera,’ John Richardson’s Latest Show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z As Galván builds the dance phrase, spiraling its impulse through his lifted arm and focusing it down into a contained rattle of stamping, he sustains a riveting musical tension. Israel Galván: one of flamenco's great mavericks 2013-02-25T16:06:02Z Mr Arlow said: "The wheels, undercarriage and tyres are original, so 70% of the plane has had Second World War action, while all the framework and riveting has been made from scratch." Replica Spitfire for Clooney film 2013-10-26T10:00:30Z It’s a delicious, riveting mess of nonplot and odd characters, of pointless incident and pointed drama. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z The muscular bass-baritone Thomas Richards was riveting from his first song, Ms. Saariaho’s “Bosun’s Cheer,” in which he alternated raspy shouting with stentorian singing. Review: ‘The Tempest Songbook’ Closes Gotham Chamber Opera’s Season 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Especially riveting among all the smalls is a vector-like enamel pin in the shape of a syringe, displaying the words “THANKS, SCIENCE” front and center, from an outfit called Dissent Pins. The Brooch Is Back, Baby 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z On Sunday afternoon, Pablo Heras-Casado, leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in a riveting performance, was that conductor. Pablo Heras-Casado leads the L.A. Philharmonic through a riveting performance of Ravel and Stravinsky 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Big Love "Big Love's" riveting final stretch "I've been living with my feet in several different worlds," Bill Henrickson told his employees in the Season 5 premiere of "Big Love." "Big Love's" riveting final stretch 2011-03-07T17:15:00Z The noirish images, complete with blood flecks in the snow, are riveting and emotional. At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal 2011-04-06T23:25:26Z Clinton gives a clear and at times riveting account of her years as secretary of state. 50 notable works of nonfiction It has the power to be both alienating and riveting, depending on your stomach for being totally confused while watching a TV show. “Better Call Saul” keeps getting better: Romance keeps Jimmy’s dark side in check — but his Cinnabon future still looms ahead 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The enthusiastic audience seemed more than grateful for a riveting nine-decade journey. Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z But he continued raising expectations with Tuesday’s riveting performance of the harrowing “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Offers a Glimpse of the Met Opera’s Future 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z In 2004, Seattle's Theater Schmeater staged his riveting "Back of the Throat" and his barbed satire of Hollywood images of Arabs, "Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes." 'Pilgrims' by Seattle playwright is a comedy of cultures 2011-06-16T20:12:04Z Nugent plunges us directly into the alternately repellent and lonely ecosystem of Delta Zeta Chi with “God,” a riveting and often hilarious crash course on coed life. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Robbins emerges as the most riveting figure, a cruel and demanding perfectionist, who, in the words of one commenter, “bludgeoned” the show into shape. ‘Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles’ Review: Inside a Broadway … Tradition! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z And she was riveting, upstaging the four much more famous guys and dominating the stage. M.I.A.?s Agitprop Pop 2010-05-26T04:15:00Z In a sense the other three are not nearly as riveting; they stay somewhat aloof. Art Review: Rineke Dijkstra Videos at Marian Goodman Gallery 2010-08-12T21:53:00Z The second-movement scherzo was especially notable for the way Mr. Gaffigan projected the music’s sarcasm and manic intensity, but youthful energy shone everywhere in this riveting account. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z The rest of the book tells the riveting story of how this detective work exposed more and more dangerous flaws in the present market system. Books of The Times: ‘Flash Boys’ by Michael Lewis, a Tale of High-Speed Trading 2014-03-31T15:42:21Z Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival brought that production to the David H. Koch Theater in August with a riveting cast. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z But it’s still a riveting piece of work full of unpleasant characters whom you’re glad you’ve met but never want to see again. Movie Review: ‘Ponies,’ by Nick Sandow, From Michael Batistick’s Play 2012-07-12T23:55:25Z But between, it contains a clear and at times riveting account of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s four years as secretary of state. Ten books of fiction and nonfiction we love, so far Unlike most of The Wire's main characters, Marlo has no sympathetic side – yet Hector's performance makes him utterly riveting. The Wire re-up: season five, episode 10 - Baltimore's Academy Awards 2010-04-19T23:15:00Z I could list 10 things that might occur next week, many of them riveting. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 9: Miscalculations 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Ivan Nagy, a dancer of riveting noble presence who became one of American Ballet Theater’s most popular stars in the 1970s as an acclaimed partner to great ballerinas, died on Saturday in Budapest. Ivan Nagy, Star of American Ballet Theater, Is Dead at 70 2014-02-26T01:29:55Z As riveting as the hearings may be, it’s that story—of the business interests merging with the personal—that seems to have the answers. The Art of the Impeachment Podcast 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Life isn't all huge moments and riveting conversation. Review: In ‘A Life,’ Lonely and Looking to the Stars for Answers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z A genre-bender and a prophetic force in music since the late 1960s, Peacock is one of the most riveting — though overlooked — vocal performers in jazz. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Because Carrère — celebrated in France as a journalist, screenwriter and novelist — possesses such an intimately engaging narrative voice, “Limonov” feels almost nonchalant yet is, in fact, quite artfully orchestrated and completely riveting. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Limonov’ by Emmanuel Carrère Trade publication Variety called the film a "riveting and surprisingly relatable true story." 'Dallas Buyers Club' takes homophobic cowboy's AIDS tale to Toronto 2013-09-08T19:59:01Z Of course, instances of these deconstructionist tendencies appear on “Butterfly,” too, but on “untitled unmastered” they seem more joyfully and carelessly—and, therefore, more rivetingly—explored. Kendrick Lamar’s Latest Restless Innovation 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Questioned exhaustively about the sequence, which is among the film’s most riveting, she offered a studied response: “All acting is nudity,” she repeatedly told reporters. Katherine Waterston of ‘Inherent Vice’ Shyly Captivates the Fashion World 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z His playing is cerebral, and sometimes playful, but, because his vocabulary is so expansive, it is also riveting: in his chancier attempts, he seems unsure himself of where he is going. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z His fans need not be alarmed: he brings to fantasy the attributes that made his SF so riveting. Science fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-02-05T00:05:29Z The car-jacking lasted two and a half hours; this is a mere 26 riveting minutes. Elementary, my dear Cumberbatch 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z A riveting and at times disturbing visual diary of a troubled man with revealing conversations interspersed. The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection 2012-12-21T16:01:33Z She was riveting in the premiere of the American composer Sebastian Currier’s “Time Machines.” Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z And if a TV reporter seeking public records ends up in handcuffs, making for riveting footage, that might not be so bad, either. The ‘I-team’ is back — and it might help save local TV news 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z One recent afternoon, he recorded himself as he was lost at sea — it was genuinely riveting, and also comic. For DJ Khaled, Snapchat Is a Major Key to Success 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z A visibly nervous Cavett managed to defuse the situation, though it made for riveting television. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter called it a "riveting staging". Branagh takes Macbeth to New York 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z But Ms. Zambello’s resourceful, riveting conception, seen on Thursday, still illuminates fresh depths and currents in this Wagner seafaring tale. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z While the movie is undeniably riveting, it's a little too precisely engineered and emotionally detached for its own good. 'Contagion': Hair-raising thriller keeps its cool 2011-09-07T21:42:09Z I found it all opaque but riveting nonetheless. Review: Works by Stefano Gervasoni at Miller Theater 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Her inner monologue is more riveting than some of the novel’s dialogue. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Have Written a Thriller. It’s Good. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z To hear how Franck and Saint-Saëns drew on Lisztian musical language for their own purposes was in itself riveting. Betrand Chamayou ? review 2011-01-04T23:30:00Z It was what flowed from that fateful decision that made the comment so riveting: the rise of Sarah Palin. John McCain: film portrait of an ‘American hero’ skirts hard questions 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z That piece, written in a pungently modernist musical language, unfolded as a long, uninterrupted, strangely riveting but very elusive single movement. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Julia Raeside As this riveting fly-on-the-wall series draws to a close, the focus perhaps appropriately turns to the mind, as patients flood London's King's College A&E department with various neurological problems. TV highlights 10/08/201: Timothy Spall: Back At Sea 2011-08-09T22:00:01Z Unfortunately her riveting performance on the Tonys was far more intense than the one I witnessed onstage. Theater Talkback: Charles Isherwood on His Favorite Tony Performances 2012-06-07T20:15:02Z Among many fine points, the flexing of individual fingers — alwaymore remarkable in the dance forms of Southern Asia than anywhere else — was riveting. Review: Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance, a Showcase of Dizzying Movement 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Passages of mounting suspense — the riveting preludes to the Painter’s suicide in the first act and Lulu’s own demise in the third, for example — had a furious energy. Music Review: ?Lulu? at the Met, Now Conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010-05-09T22:19:00Z “Muted” may be the quietest piece ever written for violin, but it was riveting in this intimately powerful performance. The Philharmonic Takes New Music Beyond Geffen Hall 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It also heightens O'Neill's Conradian awareness of the sea as a tragic force which shapes human destinies: something that becomes rivetingly clear at the climax and rescues it from sentimentality. Anna Christie ? review 2011-08-09T22:12:00Z The stories, which the Pulitzer judges said were “riveting,” explored the state’s lax enforcement and weak penalties for domestic abuse. Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig wins Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Secret Service lapses 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Their conversation, circling around eventually to the issue of the breakup, doesn’t rise to the level of riveting, either. Review: In ‘A Life,’ Lonely and Looking to the Stars for Answers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Like her film, they take a step back from reality to give riveting form to its psychological undercurrents. What to see in L.A. galleries: John Altoon, Maria Lassnig, a funky fairy tale and stenciled magic 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z By incorporating elements of each, it seems, into a spring wardrobe or, when the mood dictates, into a single, riveting look. In All the Spring Fashion Looks, a Balance 2014-04-16T21:59:46Z The investigation that follows is riveting — twisting through the complex personalities and relationships inside the cult, all while dredging up Eden’s unsettling past. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Still, tall and wiry, he is riveting in the role. Music Review: ‘Figaro,’ From Budapest Orchestra, Has Silly Touches 2013-08-12T22:01:58Z Either way, there was something riveting about this peek into other people’s marriages, especially the sessions with the manipulative narcissist who made me fantasize about performing a citizen’s divorce. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z There were riveting scenes, as when Cassandra, wailing away with her premonitions, was shown as a figure in a blood-red dress, hobbled with dismay. Music Review: ?Persephassa? by Xenakis, on Central Park Lake 2010-06-22T22:13:00Z But as an omnibus, long overdue, the show is riveting, fun, a landmark. Architecture Review: ‘Le Corbusier’ Exhibition Opens at Museum of Modern Art 2013-06-17T22:00:48Z That encounter’s conclusion may prove hard to believe, but the scene is riveting. Theater Review: ‘The Civil War,’ From Theatreworks USA, at Lucille Lortel 2013-07-21T22:12:08Z After two hours, Nixon remains a riveting enigma. Television Review: ‘Our Nixon,’ a CNN Documentary About White House Cameras 2013-07-31T22:11:25Z I just thought they were riveting and brilliantly written. ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’: Going Beyond the Verdict 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Faulkner confirms his rising-star status as he engages in intricate dialogues with the tenor saxophonist and pianist on Marsalis' "Whiplash" before climaxing with a riveting, powerhouse drum solo. Review: Drummer propels Branford Marsalis Quartet 2012-08-13T20:31:14Z The result is a riveting, infuriating and, against all the odds, uplifting book. Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Not long after Boyega made headlines last week for his riveting Black Lives Matter speech in London's Hyde Park, a few analyses of Finn began popping upon my timeline. Before John Boyega became "Star Wars" hero Finn, he was far more revolutionary in "Attack the Block" 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z And she’s aching to be loved “like I’m you, like I’m you, babe,” on “Self Love,” a beautifully grand track, which is easily the soundtrack’s most riveting offering. Review: Blige solid on ‘Think Like a Man’ album 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z It also provided riveting insight into the art and craft of moviemaking, revealing Hitchcock’s mastery of time and space and his unwavering preference, honed by his period of making silent movies, for image over dialogue. Review: ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ Revisits the Master of Suspense 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The book features a battle between gods, El-Mohtar adds, but “it feels closer to the register of folk tale than epic, and is all the more riveting for that.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z All of the heavy lifting came from Comfort, who was riveting. Stepping, samba and more damaged goods on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-22T12:01:00Z Far from being dry, it’s one of the most riveting sections of the book, and the only section in which Ivan is not in control of the narrative. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z For riveting confirmation of how strong the “resistance” can be, consider the cut, ripped and hyper-fit performers of Belarus Free Theatre’s “Burning Doors.” Review | A member of Pussy Riot is in a new play that dramatizes the group’s courage 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z In the end this is a riveting collection of stories about incredible resourcefulness. The Barbed-Wire University by Midge Gillies – review 2012-06-12T10:37:18Z The moles at Claro are riveting: The ground nuts and dried spices, the garlic and onions all seem to bring out the personalities of the chiles — sometimes fruity, sometimes vegetal — while tamping down their heat. Oaxaca on the Gowanus: The Charms and Chiles of Claro 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z In the “Going” solo from “Rooms,” everything about Mr. Puleio was riveting, from his breathing to his toes. Dance Review | Lim?n Dance Company: From the Lim?n Company, an Old-School Affirmation 2010-03-08T23:03:00Z The result, though virtuosic in part and often riveting, somehow fell short of the sum of its parts. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z It’s a riveting television moment, even now — or maybe especially now — watching a diverse bunch of children affirm, “I May Be Poor/But I Am Somebody/I May Be Young/But I Am Somebody.” Why "Sesame Street" was always my street 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But when Dr. Dre showed up to parry with him for "I Need a Doctor," the two old pals bounced ferocious energy off each other in the evening's most riveting moment. Grammy's 10 greatest moments 2011-02-14T14:01:00Z Playing with riveting confidence, the group was alert to each shifting, complex moment. Music Review: Venturing Into Noise in Search of Melody 2014-02-20T23:23:46Z More riveting are two pictures by Titian's own student, Paris Bordon, both showing mother and baby casually arrayed in the landscape with various saints. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z I know it may not sound like the most riveting TV, but it really is well done. Summer Is Flying By. Plan Accordingly. 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z From the start Mr. Gergiev’s account of the famous Fifth was riveting. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky at Carnegie - Review 2011-10-11T20:45:23Z The show’s most riveting piece — the one that most persuasively sustains its own mystery — is “The Edge of Ethics,” from 2010. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z “Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Works” is to ordinary books what Mr. Zeffirelli’s productions are to ordinary productions: unwieldy and opulent but also beautiful and riveting. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z Either way, it remains riveting because of its effective tropes. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Pass’ Wrings Laughs From the Found-Footage Genre 2013-08-22T20:47:19Z The title track is the most riveting — a communal, orchestral feat with Tapscott very much in control. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Though riveting, it goes on way too long. ‘Gloria — A Pig Tale’ Brings Opera to the Met Museum 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Articles in New York magazine, The Washington Post and the New York Times told their riveting, often disgusting, stories. Perspective | ‘Be brave’: Bill O’Reilly’s downfall teaches a wonderful lesson to working women 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z It was riveting, and it spoke to me. ArtsBeat: Which Jazz Greats Were Left Off the Blue Note 100? 2014-03-24T21:04:37Z Our critic called it “by far Mr. Carpenter’s most ambitious, most riveting film to date.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The pictures are riveting in their spatial distortions, and it’s as if they were saying, “To hell with the idea of a single vanishing point.” David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z His voice is squeaky and malleable, and it’s often most riveting when untethered from simple rhythms. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z This leads to the most riveting scene of the night. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Office Warfare 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This is a riveting tale for World War II buffs. ‘The War Below:’ subs’ role in WWII’s U.S.-Japan conflict 2013-08-24T15:12:17Z Johnson’s riveting account of Prokofiev’s “Sonata No. 7, Op. 83,” though, really stole the show. Trio of talent from Verge gives powerful performance at American Art Museum Slender and sensual, she was riveting in every scene. Music Review: A Daring Production of 'Lulu' at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-03T20:47:00Z In an early review from The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, film critic David Rooney called the film "riveting," and Stewart's performance "her best screen work to date." Unlikely friendship explores humanity in Gitmo film 'Camp X-Ray' 2014-01-18T04:05:58Z This is a riveting, suspenseful story, full of vivid characters and stirring reflections on medical and genetic issues. ‘Gemini’: mysteries of love, identity and inheritance 2014-02-26T20:25:57Z In “Next of Kin,” the equally riveting Archie Panjabi plays a character far removed from her smoothly lethal Kalinda on “The Good Wife.” The Mideasterner, TV’s Most Flexible Genre 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Every time I saw him, I thought he was riveting and that he established a kind of intimacy with the audience. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and the voice of the Beats 2011-02-23T20:30:00Z These performances with scripts in hand were fresher and more riveting than many a polished, fully staged production. What our writers love this week 2010-09-15T23:30:00Z As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head. A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Even with such riveting events as the Iran breakthrough unfolding in the world of global realpolitik, “13 Hours” was on track to earn its expected box-office take this weekend. ‘13 Hours,’ Benghazi and the slippery definition of ‘political’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z So I stayed to pack seven more shows into four more days, starting with McKellen’s hale and haunted Hamlet, a riveting interpretation in a frustratingly disjointed production. Hope (and Ian McKellen) Lured Me to Britain. Was It Worth the Risk? 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z I found it to be a riveting stroll, though I broke it up into two days. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z The most rare and therefore most riveting books might be insider accounts of living in the country like “The Aquariums of Pyongyang” by defector Kang Chol-hwan. ArtsBeat Blog: Toward a North Korea Reading List 2011-12-19T22:54:44Z Hanson was lauded for taking James Ellroy's massive novel "L.A. Confidential" about cops, criminals and tabloid rags in 1950s Los Angeles and streamlining it into a riveting thriller without losing its nuance. '8 Mile' director, Oscar-winning writer Curtis Hanson dies 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z That riveting, immediate vibe is so infectious as to be virtually tyrannical, and as the heartbeat of the country, its citizens are understandably protective. As World Cup fever rises, official Pitbull anthem "We Are One" falls 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The Emmy-winning "Primal" established its fable about a pair of tragedy survivors banding together against a supernaturally savage world over 10 riveting episodes that defy the common approach to narrative. "Primal" may be the most unconventional love story on TV. Just not in the way you think 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Leave it to a journalist to turn heartache into a riveting memoir that's also an insightful investigation into the nature of emotional con artists. Swept off her feet by a con artist: What Abby Ellin knows now about being "Duped" 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Chance’s ability to shift perspective within the narrative makes for riveting theater. Album review: Chance the Rapper, 'Acid Rap' 2013-05-10T18:44:00Z “Ghost Wall,” Moss’s sixth novel, is a compact, riveting book. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The film’s most riveting dilemma is that facing Hoffstetler: He’s torn between his morality and his country, which has asked him to kill the amphibian man. It’s Time to Take a Serious Look at Michael Stuhlbarg 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z As an experiment in the politics and psychology of performance space, it was riveting. Shake the room: how architecture is inspiring dance 2012-06-24T17:00:01Z It’s not even September, and already there’s Oscar chatter about Glenn Close’s riveting performance in “The Wife.” Glenn Close is a six-time Oscar runner-up. Will she finally clinch the statuette for ‘The Wife’? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of riveting, disturbing television you consume while lying on the couch in your droopy sweat pants after a really long B-Minus-List day. "The A-List": The triumph of vacuous gay culture 2010-10-05T13:01:00Z Less than a mile away is the equally riveting Legacy Museum. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z By contrast, in “eolo’oolin,” which received a riveting performance by Third Coast Percussion, led and directed by Steven Schick, instruments were liberated, as players paraded clusters of drums around the auditorium. Music Review: Julio Estrada, at Miller Theater, in ICE Composer Portraits 2013-05-17T21:03:20Z Yet the single disk gives you only two of the test-pressing tracks, alongside some admittedly riveting outtakes. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z This one — compulsively readable, carefully anchored in the historical record, overflowing with riveting stories and thoughtful analysis — succeeds. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Lynn Sherr’s biography of America’s first woman in space is riveting, beautifully written and rich in detail, largely because of the cooperation of family and colleagues in sharing reminiscences and correspondence. Ten books of fiction and nonfiction we love, so far All of this music stood at a particular angle with regard to the listener: It was riveting, moderate and unobtrusive. Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z It's a dramatic story, somewhat over-simplified, but accompanied by riveting archive material. Two in the Wave ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:31Z Sharrock has been heavily respected in jazz circles since the 1960s for her raw and riveting use of extended vocal techniques: Moans, breaths and cries have been her musical units. Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z But in the murky, experimental pieces, the veiled sounds and soft-spoken delicacy of her playing were equally riveting. Music Review: ?Spectral Scriabin? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-04T22:54:27Z He nevertheless provided a riveting and vivid — if not impartial — account of the most pivotal phase of the revolution, as viewed from the ground. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z As her character suffers a series of personal and professional setbacks, things culminate in a riveting encounter session that articulates her frustrations before she commits a devastating act. Best films: The 10, OK 12, greatest films of 2016 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s riveting to get a look into this most private aspect of a couple’s life, one that is secret even to them. Esther Perel Lets Us Listen In on Couples’ Secrets 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z McAndrew’s stripped-down performance of the song was – especially after all the stage-production pageantry of the performances that preceded him – riveting, and really rather exquisite. 'The Voice' recap: Top 8 ... or top great? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z A riveting debut that illuminates three intertwined lives in contemporary India, including a woman whose offhand social media post prompts the government to pin a terrorist attack on her. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Each episode of Perel’s riveting new podcast, “Where Should We Begin?,” is a recording of a real, unscripted consultation session with a real couple. Weekly Culture Review: Wonder Woman, Sarah Silverman, and More 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The theater itself borders on ramshackle but the performances proved believable, even riveting. Next Stop: Overcoming the Past in Lively Kampala 2013-08-15T21:56:49Z In a riveting spoken performance by the soprano Joan La Barbara, this Paine, in a white suit, looked a little like Hilary Clinton but sounded like a feisty, profane and profound revolutionary. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/3djd4 Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901, LondonThis riveting show is a reminder that geniuses are made, not born. Becoming Picasso, Glam!, Tom Hackett: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-02-08T13:00:00Z American fashion, like American politics, may be a discipline won by moving toward the middle, but the most riveting action often takes place on the sides. At Thom Browne, A Challenge From the Fringe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Nancy Mitford, for her wit, funniness and immense chic; Michael Wolff, for the riveting stories he could tell about the White House; and the diarist James Lees-Milne, for his all-around erudition, charm and good conversation. Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z For those not yet properly acquainted with this man's compendious oeuvre, a riveting encyclopedia of human frailty awaits your exploration. Bill Callahan: 'I've finally accepted that I'm an entertainer' 2011-03-31T11:47:40Z Whitaker opens with a riveting scene featuring the great heavyweight champion Joe Louis. Harlem Wasn’t the Only Place With a Renaissance 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “True Detective”’s opening season set the bar pretty high, and also delivered a riveting performance by Matthew McConaughey that surpassed even the excellent and wide-ranging work he was doing at the time. “True Detective” returns with brooding drama, a bit overstuffed but promising 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He was a dazzling stylist, but his rapping always had a riveting sense of proximity — a sotto voce intimacy that allowed you to feel the precise distance between his mouth and your ear. Perspective | Drakeo the Ruler wanted us to listen close. His death brings a disorienting silence. 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z And the episode managed to be unsettling and weird and riveting without crushing the viewer’s soul. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Another chapter in the canon has reached Los Angeles in Hunter’s “Pocatello,” presented by Rogue Machine, the company that delivered riveting renditions of his “A Permanent Image” and “A Bright New Boise.” In 'Pocatello,' Americans struggle to smile through the heartbreak 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Of the three, the most riveting is “Mark Trade.” Review | Art’s sharpest social commentators since Andy Warhol reveal the state we’re all in 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Another Montreal band, Suuns, played a set of brilliant, riveting permutations on the drone. Critic?s Notebook: Bands Dream Globally, Play Locally 2010-10-24T23:00:00Z Wrong called the tapes, which also include Simpson’s account of how he broke news of their mother’s death to his two children, “riveting television.” TV special to show 'charismatic' but 'manic' O.J. Simpson 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The film is anchored by two riveting performances from Castillo and Lange, whose characters are searching for themselves and feeling increasingly desperate as they fail. In 'Pelo Malo,' boy's hair issues spark tensions with mother 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Silas, my youngest, had made double the recipe of his favorite snack mix, and Henry had a nonfiction children’s book on roadkill that he assured us was riveting. A latecomer to the #vanlife party takes a 4,000-mile road trip in a pop-up camper 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z He is riveting to watch, full of breakneck energy and Olympian-level verbal agility, especially when he pingpongs from one character to another. ‘The Poltergeist’ Review: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Madman 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z This is a novel so rivetingly plotted and beautifully written that you forget its shopworn premise. Books of The Times: ?You Deserve Nothing? by Alexander Maksik - Book Review 2011-09-12T22:26:31Z Ms. Roberts, a riveting saxophonist and multimedia artist, uses her instrument, her voice and a mixture of visual media to communicate a strong, rooted message about inheritance and memory and vision. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But her art has proved far more than scandalous, as viewers have discovered her genius at telling emotionally riveting, autobiographical stories. In Transit: Controversy and Fabric at Emin Show in London 2011-05-27T10:00:44Z A month ago, it would have seemed unlikely — ridiculous, even — that the most riveting duo in America would be the Empire State’s combative governor and his kid brother, the wide-eyed cable-news host. Perspective | The Cuomo brothers put on quite a show. Should the journalism-ethics police shut it down? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z There’s not much action and even less talk, but the tension between the youths and various authorities plays out in a series of small, riveting gestures. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z Hill's facial expressions are oddly riveting, too, as he makes his way through his backward-spoken speech. A stroll with sound/video artist Gary Hill through his new show 2012-05-02T22:15:08Z These scenes in Manhattan where Ice Cream meets her Machiavellian “apostles” are especially riveting. ‘The Country of Ice Cream Star,’ by Sandra Newman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Learning from Pablo Picasso, with whom he socialized during a lengthy sojourn in Paris in the 1910s, Rivera applied the Spaniard’s groundbreaking Cubist style to a riveting representation of Emiliano Zapata Salazar. Diego Rivera's Cubist masterpiece arrives at LACMA 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Others are rivetingly indiscreet, even a bit acidic, and thanks to Fraser-Cavassoni, this chorus from the past has been coaxed into reliving one of the most electrifying moments in fashion history. Once Upon a Time 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It was a carefully chosen, riveting moment that made her look like a pop-world champion. Review: 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' Shows a Superstar at Her Most Vulnerable 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Sebastián and Miranda are killing time, but so softly that watching a beetle transport a bottle top over a tile floor feels as riveting as any car chase. ‘The Empty Hours,’ Directed by Aarón Fernández 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z She is riveting as Un/Sung, who becomes the motherly protector of this hurting teenage family. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z This is what makes Seo’s book so engrossing: it is filled with riveting, deeply researched accounts of interactions between drivers and cops back when the rules governing such incidents were still hazy. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z But it offers the same riveting detail as he explores the divide between a society far removed from war's realities and those like himself who have seen it close up. 'What It Is Like to Go to War': Karl Marlantes' unvarnished account of the highs, lows and tragedy of war 2011-09-07T20:06:04Z Though many questions are unsurprisingly left unanswered, this is an insightful, riveting character study of a master manipulator. 6 True-Crime Podcasts: When Love Is a Dangerous Con Game 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z But Ms. Lisi, who was rendered almost unrecognizable by unflattering makeup and fat padding, was lauded for her riveting portrayal of evil. Virna Lisi, sultry Italian actress who proved her dramatic mettle, dies at 78 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The film is troubling, riveting, claustrophobic and darkly hilarious. Raw director Julia Ducournau on how to make a horror film as creepy as possible 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Even in rehearsal, she’s riveting, jogging around the space with more vitality than most people half her age. The Anarchic Side of Flamenco 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The ensemble’s second album, the equally riveting “Dancer in Nowhere,” is due in February. ‘They’re Doing It Out of Love’: The Big Band Rises Again 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The result was a genre nearly new to the theater: inside-out soap opera, riveting and relatable but without hokey climaxes. Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z That this series was so riveting and superbly crafted points means that our OJ obsession is not likely to end any time soon. The People v OJ Simpson episode 10 – The Verdict 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Hathaway, though in the movie briefly, is utterly riveting — in a performance that wouldn’t be possible onstage. ‘Les Misérables’ will make you sing and cry 2012-12-21T18:49:04Z Still, the combination of virtuosity and audacity in these performances is riveting. Alexander Melnikov Records Shostakovich Preludes 2010-07-04T02:16:00Z His riveting new novel, “What Strange Paradise,” opens at sunrise on a small Mediterranean island. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s strange and grotesque and riveting to look at food like this: how a knife moving through fruit creates a weeping wound, or the way pasta dough stretches and glistens like skin. In Praise of “Chef’s Table” ’s Wild Overuse of Slow Motion 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z “The Porpoise” is so riveting that I found myself constantly pining to fall back into its labyrinth of swashbuckling adventure and feminist resistance. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z If he is now viewed widely as one of history’s monsters, his was an extraordinary and riveting power. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement While your baby’s bowel movements may not seem fascinating at first, you will have riveting conversations about it with your pediatrician. How Did We Ever Have Babies Before Apps Came Along? 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z That, ultimately, is what’s so riveting about “Gone Girl” and “Transparent.” The lies we live by: What “Gone Girl” and “Transparent” have in common 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But its writers injected riveting personalities into the story from the start. "House of the Dragon" is a slow ride back to Westeros that takes its time in lighting our fire 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z “Einstein” sealed his transition into a world-wandering director and designer who would mix riveting original works with highly stylized, controversial — but, in many quarters, much admired — stagings of classic operas and plays. ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Revival at BAM Raises Questions 2012-08-31T14:06:50Z In 1993, Ben Brantley in The Times called her interpretation of a character known only as the Woman in Mr. Albee’s “Listening” “a centered, rivetingly taut performance” that held the production together. Jacqueline Brookes, Actress, Dies at 82 2013-05-12T15:33:46Z Wade’s account of the couple’s relationship, including of their contacts with the Russian exile community in Paris, where they lived for a period and which inspired several works of translation, is riveting. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z But her alertness to the texts and the unassuming grandeur of her presence made the night riveting. Review: Anna Caterina Antonacci Charms With French Art Songs 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z His portfolio leads him to a job in London with the renowned graphics firm Pentagram, which he doesn’t find riveting. Bruce Mau: A Designer Puts Life on the Drawing Boards 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z When Malek is acting alone — especially in moments that reflect Freddie’s delightful astonishment at his own creative powers — he’s riveting to watch. We will (almost) rock you: Rami Malek is marvelous in “Bohemian Rhapsody”; it’s not quite e... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The details of their courtship are lovely to read, but Lincoln’s time with Speed is much more riveting. Review | Was Abraham Lincoln gay? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Americans are notoriously unable or unwilling to think about class, but this riveting comic could help us out. The comic book “Lazarus” is a frightening vision of where America could be headed 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z If Mr. Nichols was the life of any party, the most riveting raconteur I ever met, Mr. Mantello’s charm is more low-key and shy. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z But the food you find inside the bags and boxes, considerately secured with red tamper-proof seals, is so riveting, it would stand out on a paper plate. Review | Head to Chennai Hoppers for some of the area’s best Indian cooking 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It would be an even sadder scene, and play, if Oyik, Finan and Davies — all riveting — were not so obviously a decade older than the characters they portray. Review: Fathers, but Not Yet Men, in the Prison Drama ‘Shook’ 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z His face is astoundingly strange - neither ugly nor beautiful, yet endlessly riveting. Charlie Brooker's 10 years of watching Big Brother 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z The abundant majority of the pieces in this book, however, are riveting, not least those that he later developed into full-scale books. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It includes 14 elaborate fugues, about an hour’s worth of the most riveting, complex and astonishing contrapuntal music ever written. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z There was a similar contrast between a vaguely defined orchestral concert at Geffen and a riveting Kaplan Penthouse event earlier this week. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z That wardrobe, along with her artfully marcelled hair and exotic jewelry, sets her apart as a fashion adventuress, her newfound daring riveting to viewers, especially members of the fashion flock. For Lady Edith on ‘Downton Abbey,’ Laura Carmichael, a Shift to Roaring ’20s Fashion 2014-01-31T21:28:32Z The scorching answer to that question is Rattigan’s topic across three acts and as many hours, every moment of them riveting. Review: A British and an American Revival Intoxicate, for Different Reasons 2010-06-15T14:53:00Z Meticulously documented, fluidly written and replete with riveting detail, Bergen’s book weaves back and forth between the man and the terrorist, providing the fullest picture we have yet of Osama bin Laden. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Relative silence can be riveting, and these long, quiet scenes hint at the potential for other kinds of expression. The best scenes in "The Book of Boba Fett" are silent 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Back in 2006, a riveting asked and answered the explosive question in its title, Who Killed The Electric Car? Revenge Of The Electric Car is a heartwarming tale 2012-07-13T23:11:09Z Hudner and Brown flew Corsairs and Makos' depiction of their bombing runs — dodging flak, searching for targets, worried about the condition of their aircraft — is riveting. 'Devotion' gets into cockpit of 2 U.S. pilots who bond in Korean War 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z “Why are they in that warehouse? Why is the music so ominous? Why are they sitting there with piles of cash like mini-dictators. Such terrible people, all of them. It’s riveting.” Cillian Murphy: playing a blinder 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The Comey testimony made for riveting viewing — and produced some serious news — but if you were looking for consistency about sourcing, leaks or accuracy, this was not the place to find it. Perspective | ‘Like feeding seagulls at the beach’: Comey’s unflattering view of news media 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z What makes Miller’s own account so riveting is its alertness to wonder and unpredictability. While You’re Waiting for the Next Hilary Mantel, Try Andrew Miller 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z There are plenty of riveting works in the rest of the display of course, but they come along one at a time, almost randomly without much sense of structure or curatorial oversight. Art Review | Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, a Retrospective of a Deeply German Artist 2010-03-11T23:25:00Z His ability to spin out a dark, glittering thread from this tangle of souls gave him a singular voice that could make his prose riveting. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z There are also modernist paintings and wall hangings from the 1960s and ’70s by the Saqqakhana school, and riveting photographs from the period around the revolution. Review | Can art help us understand Iran? A new LACMA exhibit misses the mark. 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The media described the memoir as "the only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader" and "a riveting insider's look at life within the world of Scientology." Scientology leader's father to publish 'Ruthless' memoir 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In other words, this is a story about compromises — and a riveting, unsettling one at that. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s never quite clear in the conceptual artist Leigh Ledare’s riveting hybrid of documentary and psychology experiment, filmed over three days at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2017. Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z And by drawing on hitherto unpublished documentary sources he provides a riveting chronicle of the composer’s tangled relationships. Piano man 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The music-director designate of the Seattle Symphony, Thomas Dausgaard — always a riveting maestro — makes his first appearance of this season on the podium with a program of two 19th-century giants, Schumann and Beethoven. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2018 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The amalgam of ballerina finesse and daft diva antics is brilliant, unsettling, riveting: the epitome of Trocks style. Review: The Trocks Delight With Fabulous Charm 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Thanks to some excellent and at times gripping performances — especially from its lead, Gemma Arterton — “Black Narcissus” remains intriguing while never quite getting to the point of riveting. Review | FX’s ‘Black Narcissus’ poses a real mystery: What is this, and why is it on? 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Yet in this riveting performance the minimal elements of this austere piece hung together to make something organic, even urgent. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z “Endurance is the first duty of all living beings,” one character tells another in this novel, which is exactly as grim and as riveting as that sentiment would suggest. Love and War in European Fiction 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z But the riveting Act 2 also boldly evokes the lethal randomness, the shattering barbarity and sheer human waste of warfare. ‘War Horse’ is a peak theater experience | Review 2013-02-14T23:31:38Z Our stages see increasingly challenging work on identity, gender and ethnicity, and that’s only likely to intensify: Young Jean Lee’s “Straight White Men” at Studio is already riveting viewing in the new cultural context. Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z “What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee. Mary Boone Is Not Done 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Still, Ms. Beiser’s performance was riveting and thoroughly wedded to the idiom, just as her earlier rock-outs and reverential meditations had been. Review: Maya Beiser Offers a Concert of Both Rock and Reverence 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z This was all the more distracting because Bryn Terfel sang this long monologue with a riveting mix of volatile intensity and anguished remorse. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z It’s a riveting story whose value transcends the author’s personal quest. Notable memoirs for February: ‘He Wanted the Moon,’ ‘It’s What I Do,’ ‘Displacement’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z The non sequiturs and changes of tone in Cunningham choreography remain beautifully riveting: they show how full of variety and contradiction humanity can be. Merce Cunningham Lives On in Philadelphia Museum Show 2013-01-23T23:19:41Z Gwynne, author of the riveting Quanah Parker biography “Empire of the Summer Moon,” takes on Confederate Civil War general Stonewall Jackson, a master strategist and relentless taskmaster who believed his cause was divinely inspired. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Mike's show is as moving as it is enlightening, riveting, funny, charged and impeccably skilled. Killer Mike – review 2013-02-15T15:19:00Z These players normally promise riveting concert experiences: Challenging, sometimes; boring, never. Review: A Musical Homage to Aviation, From Plato to Earhart 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Ultimately, this is a magnificent monster that offers hundreds of hours of fierce challenge and riveting gameplay. Monster Hunter Tri 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z The hunger and excitement of all that era after the first World War, is something I find riveting. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z This riveting film is at once a personal story, a journalistic thriller and an essay on the nature of paranoia. 17 Movies to Enjoy for the Tribeca Film Festival’s 17th Edition 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The trio's vocal harmonies were riveting, though volume levels were painfully high in the opening moments. Crosby, Stills and Nash a special treat for boomers 2012-09-15T17:29:04Z By the standards of a typical two-hour stint at the Department of Motor Vehicles or any other bureaucratic way station, “Lush Valley” qualifies as riveting. | 'Lush Valley': Lush Valley at Here Arts Center - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:00Z But the occasional flaws didn't detract from an evening that proved pleasurable and riveting in equal measure. Crowe/Maltman/Johnson – review 2013-01-06T18:04:43Z On that score, they have produced the most thorough and riveting account so far — riveting, that is, as long as you don’t mind falling into paroxysms of political outrage and dismay. Was the 2016 Election a Game of ‘Russian Roulette’? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Much of its mesmerizing power came from Ms. Riva’s riveting performance. Emmanuelle Riva, oldest lead actress to be nominated for Academy Award, dies at 89 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z An invigorating yell by Miller from the podium got "Mankind" off to a riveting start. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But Sievey’s papier-mâché orb, with neatly parted dark hair and wide, expressionless blue eyes, was somehow riveting as well. 'Frank' Riffs on the Pop Curiosity Frank Sidebottom 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z It's a riveting account of one man's journey, and that of a people's recovery from slavery. This week's new theatre 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z This riveting Chinese semi-documentary uses interviews with real factory workers and composite figures played by well-known actors to trace half a century of life in Chengdu, an ugly, polluted industrial city in Sichuan province. 24 City 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z Who knew something so basic as making rice would make such riveting TV! "Top Chef" producer on that demanding thali challenge: "I'm getting winded just thinking about it!" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z She turns this haunted and haunting Gypsy, driven mad by her memories — and often mentioned last in rundowns of the “Trovatore” cast’s main quartet — into the riveting, volatile central figure. Review: A Surprise Star Steals the Met’s ‘Il Trovatore’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Most riveting are those detailing Navy life, starting with fleets of warships. For Bispo do Rosario, Art Could Only Be a Divine Calling 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z But honestly, when you see what happened to Greece this year laid out in the four-part online series “#ThisIsACoup,” an urgent and riveting work of activist journalism, you can’t blame the guy. What can we learn from the Greek defeat? The global struggle against austerity reaches the screen 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But it's his hilarious and riveting turn on Peacock's comedy "Rutherford Falls" that felt like a revelation. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Cleaving is, however, a much livelier book than Committed, in the way that your narcissistic pal is more riveting than your earnest, loyal girlfriend. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z Be that as it may, what we heard was a riveting display of shimmering, seething orchestral color with a huge collection of percussion instruments rattling, cobbling and bonging away in the Disney Hall acoustic. Joshua Bell kicks off three-night run with Dudamel and the L.A. Phil 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Yet memorable it will be, for its very strangeness, as well as for Mr. van der Aa’s imaginative production and for Mr. West’s riveting performance. Review: ‘The Book of Disquiet,’ Opera as One Man, With Films 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But it presents a riveting tale, one written with pace and aplomb. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Remember the last Chardonnay you had that was this riveting, this just hold-up-the-glass-and-stare-at-the-thing fascinating? The Un-Chardonnay: Limited Edition, Cutting Edge Gems 2014-03-31T13:00:00Z Extended solos and duets are rare but riveting, in particular the pairing of Barrington Hinds and Marie Lloyd Paspe, who achieve a fierce, friendly tension as they traverse the length of the stage. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z As a one-man show, he’s riveting, the way he uses simple props – a cape, his microphone cord, the mike stand, a bottle, a belt – to heighten the drama. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z As readers of the best-seller will remember, the book offered a riveting fictional version of the life of the egocentric architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the woman who sacrificed everything to be with him. ‘Under the Wide and Starry Sky’: R.L. Stevenson’s muse 2014-01-15T22:17:21Z Dickinson is riveting as the lesser-known Giovanni, a poised young Black woman with a soft surface and a spine of steel. ‘Lessons in Survival: 1971’ Review: The Past Echoes in the Present 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The game created dramatic tension by rewarding challenge winners with temporary immunity from the vote, but it became riveting entertainment when players started behaving badly. Donald Trump, the ultimate “Survivor”: How watching Richard Hatch win laid the groundwork for Trump the GOP nominee 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It is at once baffling and riveting, with two gargantuan outer movements surrounding a shorter middle one. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Lambert and guitarist Brian May took turns in the spotlight, May swooping in with riveting guitar solos including a cosmic “Last Horizon” from his 1992 solo album, “Back to the Light.” Review: Queen + Adam Lambert conquer Tacoma Dome with blockbuster panache on Rhapsody tour 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z In an illuminating interview with Esquire where Matthew discusses meeting his wife and winning an Oscar, the most riveting thing by far is his account of Kay, who is affectionately referred to as K-Mac. Matthew McConaughey's Mom Is Living Her Best Life 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Stephen King’s “On Writing” is both a bundle of good advice and a riveting memoir. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Kweli, a smart, keen lyricist, rapper and political advocate, gave Lemon a lecture on perception and the role of the media in real time, and the result was riveting. Friday coda: 'Anaconda' booty, Talib Kweli vs. CNN, Aphex Twin blimp 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z And at Pace/MacGill, Paul Graham’s riveting photo sequence of a woman eating fried chicken in New Orleans has some excellent company, in the form of street shots by Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. Art Review: Venerable, Small and Lots on Paper (Including Napkins) 2010-03-04T22:38:00Z After a performance so riveting that even Chris Pine was in tears, the musicians delivered a pair of speeches that were just as fiery and full of purpose. Grading the Oscar Speeches: Patricia Arquette Gets an A+ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The elusive second movement was riveting, as Mr. Runge played the eerie pizzicato cello line with deceptive nonchalance and spectral colorings. Music Review | Artemis Quartet: Beethoven That Is Robust, if a Little Strange 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z During the riveting first scene of Act I, “Train,” the mood changes completely. Music Review: ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-16T22:03:03Z Yet even the failure to find a persuasive closing note doesn’t detract from Mr. Oyelowo’s riveting performance. In ‘Default,’ Somali Pirates’ Demand Is for Coverage 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Hopper, who gives himself some spectacularly self-indulgent moments, is often riveting, but the movie ultimately belongs to Manz, introduced in Halloween clown-face makeup happily riding in Daddy’s rig. ‘Out of the Blue’: When Dennis Hopper Cast Himself as a Dad 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z It is still an astonishing, riveting film, both eloquent and difficult. Dance Review: Meredith Monk at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:38:02Z Bernardo, discovering her intrusion, humiliates her, and as their passion turns rancid, it becomes a fanatical, insanely vindictive power struggle that is as sickening to watch as it is riveting. Review: In ‘A Wolf at the Door,’ a Fiery Affair Turns Rancid 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In that trio of songs, Spyres the Bel Canto star was most in his element: his tenor both riveting and rending, his high notes both tossed off and made to bloom with long crescendos. Review: A Singer’s Immense Sound Engulfs a Recital Room 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The Punks’ steady revival is strictly for classics buffs until it reaches that riveting passage. Review | A woman plays the title character in ‘Don Juan,’ and he’s still a jerk 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Elegantly written and structured, the book is a riveting adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, and a restless, searching meditation on love, friendship and family. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “This is a riveting, sometimes appalling story,” Rosemary Mahoney writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The trial is riveting, but don’t expect anyone to burst into the courtroom at the last minute waving a piece of paper that upends the proceedings. John Grisham Brings Back His Hero Jake Brigance for a Third Case 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Equal parts provocative and riveting, “Riot Baby” is what all speculative fiction should strive to be: wholly captivating. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Géza Vermes on the Jewish origins of Jesus and Michael Holding on how to destroy batsmen would be riveting. The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z According to Netflix's riveting but open-ended synopsis, Otis is now having casual sex, Eric and Adam are "official" and Jean is preparing for a baby. From a "Dear White People" swan song to Tokyo assassins, here's what's new on Netflix in September 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Her voice may be gravelly and the countenance may come across as severe, but the delivery is riveting and the line readings redolent of pathos and regret. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But once you adjust, as the audience that awarded Mr. Sciarrino, 63, a prolonged ovation on Tuesday clearly did, this music is riveting. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z The result, at the Young Vic through Jan. 22, is the most riveting play in London just now. Review: In ‘Best of Enemies,’ a TV Duel Becomes a Theater Gem 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z After reading about her years of roughing it, you’ll appreciate the author’s real-life independence more, but even without the colorful backdrop of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century theatrical universe, this would be a riveting character study. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z But every phrase he sang was riveting, and the title fit the occasion. Review: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of Life, Love and Sadness at Carnegie Hall 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The rapper opened Sunday’s starry telecast with a riveting medley, cramming his verses with complicated rhymes about race, faith and mortality. Review | With a sweep from Bruno Mars, the Grammys snub hip-hop — again 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z But his rasping through the tender “Lovin’ Her Was Easier” provided the night’s most riveting moments. Fans and artists pay tribute to Emmylou Harris at Constitution Hall 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Either way, he drew riveting performances from his inspired orchestra, lushly rich yet uncannily transparent. Dreaming Up a Mahler Symphony That Never Was 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z And she conveys the addict's fluctuating sense of self in a riveting interview with a psychiatrist in which she moves from snide aggression to desperate neediness. Review 2011-03-18T00:46:40Z Everything from a Southern congressman’s riveting memoir to a California woman’s textured fantasy tale is finding favor with wide audiences. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z On one hand, the book reads like a riveting novel as Wallace reveals the machinations and internal debates among the scientific community to devise a workable atomic bomb as quickly as possible. A Day-by-Day Re-Creation of Truman’s Decision to Use Nuclear Weapons 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z There is riveting tension between the somberly elegiac vocal writing and the heaving piano part, thick with grating precisely textured chords. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z Along with one of the great deliveries in standup comedy, this complexity is what makes Burr a riveting performer. 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z As a sprawling human drama, poised on the precipice of a violence that you know is waiting for its beguilingly drawn and assayed characters, it is a riveting work of art. Review | ‘The Ferryman,’ an explosive, exhilarating human drama 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The entire performance was riveting, and elicited an exuberant ovation from the audience. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z The rich three-dimensionality of her movement, often addressing several planes of space at once, was riveting. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z Enrigue has called the tennis duel a metaphor of geopolitical confrontations, but it’s more riveting as the comically desperate, hung-over contest between two artists with lowlife habits who fancy each other. Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death’ hits history around like a tennis ball 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Ford's script demanded he enthuse about the "riveting and raucous" Wolf Of Wall Street. Ellen's bid for best Oscar host 2014-03-03T08:07:42Z Control is the powerful subject of the riveting ballet picture, “Rehearsal hall at the Opéra, rue Le Peletier.” First full Edgar Degas retrospective in nearly 30 years shows an artist who liked to be in control 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr Steinmetz’s prose does not always sparkle and some arcane details of banking history are fuzzy, but the tale of Fugger’s aspiration, ruthlessness and greed is riveting. Goldenballs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Over 24 hours in Vancouver, we’d grasped a piece of history here, a sliver of culture there and a riveting first impression of a complicated city. 24 hours in Vancouver, B.C.: A newcomer gets a fascinating glimpse of a complicated city 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Michael Massing’s riveting “Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind” is devoted to this fateful parting of ways. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Is it still the riveting tale of malfeasance that it was 51 years ago? ‘White House Plumbers’ Revisits the Fringes of Watergate 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Tupac in particular led an explosive, riveting life that was much stranger than most multiplex fare. Straight Outta Hollywood: how hip-hop saved the biopic 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In his riveting account of this and other decisive global convulsions that occurred in the space of that single year, Christian Caryl notes that "most outsiders couldn't fathom what was happening in Iran". Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z Gestures were large, playing was bold — at times surprisingly loud — and rarely less than riveting, notably in the symphony-sized Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. Bold and exciting, all-star Chamber Music Society plays a thrilling concert 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z This is another way of saying that the first half of Mr. Kolker’s book, which relates the stories of these women’s lives, is riveting and often heartbreaking. Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z Often a handsome, bland presence, here he was a riveting force. A Triumphant De Keersmaeker Takes Paris Opera by Storm 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It's a riveting and often hilarious film, shedding a light on the creative process at "SNL" like nothing else. Film goes behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live 2010-03-17T01:25:00Z But Lee Krasner is the riveting one, rare and defiant and glowing with life in a beautifully modulated, remarkably understated performance by Birgit Huppuch. Review: Lee Krasner Gets the Upper Hand in ‘Pollock’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The California-born songwriter, whose fourth album came out in June, has a riveting live show. Other Voices: a bigger stage for the mighty little Irish festival 2012-11-11T00:06:05Z The episode was filmed at a different Shell station, not the one where it happened, but the carjacking and Mr. Meng’s escape are riveting, especially because we never saw this on the news. ‘Patriots Day’ Disconnect Between Bostonians and the Rest of Us 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Tiny details of individual fingers, extended or clenched, became absorbing in her performance; different rhythms, alertly shown, made her mere walk riveting. Dance Review: Performers Showcase Classics at DanceFest India! 2013-07-01T21:42:40Z The riveting opening 15 minutes is what makes worth seeing. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-30T00:08:01Z Who on earth is this odd and riveting child? The Last Book That Made Aimee Bender Laugh Out Loud 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z What emerges is a riveting picture, gorgeously rendered, of the stubborn, argumentative miracle of Jewish survival against the odds. Millenniums of Tribulation 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The flying, of course, is the most glamorous part, and Mr. Illes is a riveting aerialist. Suspended in Air, Searching for Connection in Two High-Flying Shows 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z They are roughly the length of the Treaty of Ghent, but less riveting. Post Hunt 2016 has arrived! Come downtown Sunday. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Yet in the riveting Broadway revival of the musical “Parade” that opened on Thursday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, it’s Micaela Diamond, as Lucille Frank, you watch most closely and who breaks your heart. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The final months leading to the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of David Kelly are riveting. The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z But judged as riveting crime TV, The Jinx is a slam-dunk. "There It Is. You're Caught." The Jinx Gets Its Man 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z With riveting clarity and enigmatic shadows, and through a range of languages in different registers of speaking and singing, it captures both the promise and darkness of cosmopolitanism itself. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z This account is contextualized by a rich and riveting social history of trans people’s rocky road to cultural acceptance in the West, from the early 20th century up to the current day. The Secret 53-Year-Old British Case That Could Have Legalized Trans Identity 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Throughout, Miller avoids a sensational tone, and her fresh and detailed reconstruction of this famous story is riveting — part tabloid story, part poignant biography. The Dionne Quints Were Premature and Tiny. But Fame Was the Real Problem. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z And it was also particularly riveting because of the ambiguity of the pauses. Waiting for Murdoch 2011-07-22T18:00:01Z The first scene, alone, is riveting for both its music and its content. Stop what you're doing and go see an opera about human trafficking 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Hanson was lauded for taking James Ellroy’s massive novel “L.A. Confidential” about cops, criminals and tabloid rags in 1950s Los Angeles and streamlining it into a riveting thriller without losing its nuance. Oscar-winning Filmmaker Curtis Hanson Dies Aged 71 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Another Year is beautiful, mordant and curiously riveting; a bittersweet salute to the terrors and pleasures of growing old. Another Year, a rare treat 2010-05-17T09:29:00Z He spun riveting tales of military honor for me and my brothers. Journeys: In Virginia, Touring Lesser-Known Civil War Sites 2011-04-29T20:30:10Z “NI HAO” and “chi ku” may be the two commonest phrases in this riveting worm’s-eye account of the Chinese in Africa. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The result is a riveting visual history lesson, whose occasional didacticism is integral to its power. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Powerful, unpredictable, provocative and riveting, it was the best thing on TV this year, hands down. AP Emmy pundits favor ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ for honors 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Although that was more to do with his storied history as a cartoon rather than his riveting conversation. A Dog’s Box-Office Journey 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Reviewing “A United Kingdom” for The New York Times, Glenn Kenny said the best reason to see the film was Mr. Oyelowo’s performance and added, “It is remarkable, genuinely riveting work.” David Oyelowo on How to Play a Real King 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z You may not like some of his conclusions, but there’s no arguing that his process is riveting. Here Are the Best Albums of 2015 So Far 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z You may not agree with all his conclusions, but there’s no arguing that his process is riveting. Top 10 Albums 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z His live appearances may be infrequent, but he remains a riveting performer. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This and other evocative questions — such as “When does then become now?” and “Is the / word in the world / or / is the / world in the word?” — punctuate a dazzling array of richly colored, riveting paintings. Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Annie Lennox brought something electric to the end of Hozier’s “Take Me to Church,” and then sang a riveting “I Put a Spell on You,” causing the stadium and the Internet to freak out. The 2015 Grammys and Keeping It Real 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z "Incendies" is an intricate, often riveting mystery that unfolds backward and forward in time. 'Incendies': Mother's final wish leads to a gripping mystery 2011-05-26T20:19:55Z Brockmeier delivers a riveting novel that asks: What if all aches and agony were illuminated? 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z “Lohengrin” weds musical richness to a text whose characters are focused and compelling, riveting as people and reverberant as symbols. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z That the rest of the production is able to keep pace with Gilbert’s riveting turn is a testament to just how strong it is. STAGEright’s ‘Elephant Man’ a potent, powerful show 2014-03-13T20:20:36Z The encore, slinking along on what Sun Ra might have called a Nubian wavelength, featured Mr. Zorn and Mr. Potter in successive solos, both sharply riveting, both exuding authority. Music Review | John Zorn: Exploring the Topography of John Zorn?s Continent 2010-02-19T22:52:00Z The scene in which Louie, on a date, was humiliated by a teenage bully was riveting and, from an average-male perspective, almost impossible to watch. Year in Culture: Cartoons, Quarterbacks and Comedians 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z Whether it's good-strange or bad-strange is a highly subjective question; I found it gorgeous, opaque and disturbing in roughly equal portions, but it was a riveting experience all the way through. Cannes: A creepy, erotic retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" 2011-05-13T01:01:00Z The imagery not only took attention from evocative, riveting sound, but it added banal underscoring of the score's most obvious points. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Spitzer participated in the film and hearing him speak, clad in a tailored suit and talking straight to the camera, is riveting. Al-Qaeda to Zonad: Highlights from Tribeca Fest 2010-05-02T21:16:00Z Embedded in the music, in its riveting biographies and soaring artistic achievement, can be found our oft-neglected conscience, a message of hope and transcendence for all people, of affirmation in the face of adversity. Ken Burns: Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Hong Kong Ballet is an enigma, though not a particularly riveting one. Review: Hong Kong Ballet, Polished and Ready for More 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Kirkus Reviews, among other enthusiastic early notices, praised it as “a riveting biography” of a “master confidence man.” Revisiting a Scholar Unmasked by Scandal 2014-03-09T21:47:03Z "James just found it completely riveting," he recalls. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z Her debut single's fine, but the documentary of her life should be riveting. New band of the day ? No 925: Jodie Connor 2010-12-07T17:22:00Z The result is riveting and scary — in a lot of ways. Don Winslow’s summer blockbuster, ‘The Force,’ is ready-made for Hollywood 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z “The Cursed” is a patchwork of familiar horror tropes, but Ellis crafts a riveting spectacle of jump scares and spooky kills in his wintry, fog-swept setting. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Most riveting: the comments of a survivor of the 2007 shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Review: 'The Thin Place' at Intiman ruminates on religion, lost and found 2010-05-24T23:08:00Z This riveting history captures the sweep of Kennedy’s life — as Wall Street speculator, moviemaker, ambassador and dynastic founder. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z He used emotionally riveting newsreel footage from the Holocaust, like that of a young mother in the Warsaw ghetto cradling a lifeless child in her arms. Marshall Flaum, Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 85 2010-10-09T03:18:00Z Firstly, that this is an opera of riveting dramatic and musical strength, proudly American yet rising above jingoism, profoundly personal yet universal in context. Opera review: 'Amelia' is a profoundly personal, American story 2010-05-10T17:18:00Z Stanley Lewis’s riveting paintings of scruffy residential backyards involve improbable amounts of built-up paint and intensely detailed realism. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary, and unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-10T00:46:04Z The Angels, sung by three boys in a high gallery, responded to Man, enacted by the male choir, in a riveting exchange. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z His riveting play thrusts us into an escalating global debate. 'Disgraced' at the Taper: Islam, America and the cloudy prism of perception 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z "Who will we touch?," she plaintively asks her father, in the riveting duet that's one of the highlights of Machover's richly inventive score. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z Yet the work is still riveting, even given our repugnance, because the reader knows that, in the end, the narrator will break the frame of the page and come to lethal life. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It also easily qualifies as one of the most riveting experiences of the theater season. Perspective | A Tony-nominated play that turns the forging of political relationships into art 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z This unusual organizing principle lets you map the growth of the Met from room to room, even as it creates strange, riveting juxtapositions across time. How the Met Was Made 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Few do so to such riveting effect as Matthew Miller, a young, Brooklyn-based artist. Art in Review: Matthew Miller: ?the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it? 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z The Getty show is much smaller and more sharply focused but no less riveting. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Watch her deliver the less than riveting material below. Sarah Paulson Read Hillary Clinton's Emails on Samantha Bee 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet in Saturday’s performance, Mr. Campbell, playing with uncanny control and powerful expressivity, was the riveting focal point, aided by Mr. Gilbert and the players. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The plot stretches credulity to the breaking point, but "The Vault" is nonetheless great fun and a riveting adventure. Crime fiction: new books by Garry Disher, C.J. Box and Laura Lippman 2011-08-10T22:07:04Z We’re along for the ride, courtesy of a series of often riveting, mostly wordless visual dialogues between artists, conducted entirely by cellphone. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Which is a crying shame, because for an hour this is a riveting, by-the-book kidnapping. ‘The Call’: After a riveting hour, hang up 2013-03-14T20:39:08Z I should say that the plot itself is really riveting and interesting and it entirely captures your attention. Life of Pi by Yann Martel - review 2013-01-29T09:00:00Z In dealing with the criminal antics of a motorbike gang in the far from sleepy Californian town of Charming, Sons presents a riveting family drama punctuated by extreme violence and heavily shouldered secrets. States of bliss 2011-01-29T00:05:00Z It’s bookended by the story in the present day, but what may have been schematic in other hands is riveting in Ms. Vine’s. ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z These episodes in no way detract from — and in some ways only enhance — her riveting tale of a life’s journey that reads as if it will need a sequel. Armchair Traveler: Book Review: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen 2010-07-15T17:13:00Z The result may not be authentically Hungarian, but it makes for riveting music-making. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z LeBrecht hears stories every week from and about the disabled community that could make for riveting TV and movies. In ‘Luca,’ a Character’s Disability Doesn’t Define Him 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z “Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,” by Gretchen Sorin, is a riveting story on how the automobile opened up opportunities for blacks in the U.S. Review: ‘Driving While Black’ opens road to civil rights 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z What begins as an intrusive subway encounter quickly deepens into a riveting, all-too-relevant microcosm of intractable racial tensions in Rogue Machine’s superb West Coast premiere of “Dutch Masters” at the Met Theatre. One black kid, one white kid and the riveting friendship that unfolds onstage in 'Dutch Masters' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Just as riveting are the two suites of dances from the Paxton “Goldberg Variations.” Review: At MoMA, Dances by Steve Paxton, an Original Too Rarely Seen 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The charismatic bass-baritone Jonathan Woody was riveting in a number of solos, his voice nimble and focused in the runs. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z Our reviewer, Carvell Wallace, praised the “hearty inspiration” provided by this riveting nonfiction account of the Native American students who developed most of what we consider modern football. Notable Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Maddalena was riveting in the long scene in which Nixon meets the frail yet feisty Mao, here the tenor Bruce Brubaker in a performance that captures the chairman’s authoritarian defiance and rapacious self-indulgence. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z An alternative title to “Eye in the Sky,” a riveting thriller about drone warfare and its perils, might be “Passing the Buck.” Review: ‘Eye in the Sky,’ Drone Precision vs. Human Failings 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z This frequently moving, almost always riveting exhibition suggests that these holdings amount to a kind of cultural gold that can make the melting-pot nature of the city shine in a new way. Art Review: ?Testimonios,? Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio 2012-02-09T23:48:36Z "Shang-Chi" presents a riveting tale that's at times heavy on flashbacks, but unwavering in its fundamental conflicts and revelations on trauma and loss, on family and regret. "Shang-Chi" is an unapologetically Asian triumph about an unapologetically Asian superhero 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Anyone visiting this riveting show will hear the onset of a volcanic eruption from the moment they enter. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Humourless, imperious doctor Pippa Moore's riveting work to expand the Bristol Stool Chart to "an exhaustive 31 types of patient faeces" is less to the fore because she is fighting for her job. Getting On: deadpan with bedpans 2010-10-18T20:07:00Z While getting ready, my older sister entered the bathroom, and we exchanged the following riveting dialogue: Jenna Fischer: The First Time I Was Paid to Act 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The first hour is riveting: The arguments about fanaticism sound distressingly current, and Serrand seems to know exactly when he can freeze the action and let a confrontation hang awkwardly in the air. Taking on a fanatic with zeal in Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Miguel himself is a riveting performer, all finger-popping swagger and feline grace, yet undercutting his star power with playful good humour. Miguel – review 2013-01-14T13:01:01Z Fortunately, also like the game, the book eventually builds to a riveting high-stakes showdown — in this case, a David versus Goliath courtroom battle involving brand identity and free speech. It's game time for the history of Monopoly 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Watts, a Lisztian par excellence, concluded with a riveting account of the composer's extroverted Transcendental Etude No. 10. Pianist André Watts is playing like a teenage phenom at age 69 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z There’s a sense in our family that the story is a point of pride, as well as a riveting party tidbit. My ancestors, the cannibals: Whaling, human sacrifice and the true story of “Moby-Dick” 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Anyway," he brightens, "it only makes it more riveting to me. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z So, yes, it’s truly love at first sight in director Matthew Gardiner’s riveting new “West Side Story” — and not just for that star-crossed pair. Signature’s ‘West Side Story’: It’s not just any night 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The seriousness of the subject matter may seem forbidding, but the imagination of Hindemith’s sonic language — dissonant at times, but always rapturous and conceived with care — is so riveting, it actually sells the philosophical material. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Through free-verse poems that draw vividly upon Shelley’s journals, letters and manuscripts, Judge offers a riveting immersion in Mary’s experiences as a teenage runaway. Review | The struggle for women’s rights and other lessons for young readers 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z This is clear from the first moments, when identical twin brothers perform a riveting pole dance that has such a quality of floating ease, it’s like a sideways ballet. This ‘Nutcracker’ celebrates openness, diversity and glitter G-strings 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Portrayed with elfin verve by Ana Tsikurishvili, the fairy is a riveting figure whose lime-green dress swirls with tiny lights and whose twitchy movements hint at the feral energy she channels. Review | Synetic’s ‘Peter Pan’ may talk, but it also delivers physical ingenuity 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Those nights out were alternately riveting and glum, and always experienced at a little remove. Watching My Mother Watch Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z “Detailed descriptions of his family’s tragic journey through poverty, the changing nature of his beloved and cursed neighborhood, and his adventures as a hustler are riveting,” Nelson George writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Beautifully prepared, vocally stunning, and theatrically riveting, Wimbish effortlessly held the audience in her hand throughout this one-woman show. UrbanArias visits Baker, Stein and Picasso in Paris, and beyond 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Another window gives us a glimpse of men riveting steel on the 86th floor. Exhibition Review: A View Inside King Kong?s Perch 2011-07-16T00:00:07Z It's the riveting way each confronts the camera. T Magazine: Zwelethu Mthethwa's 'Brave Ones' 2013-01-31T14:00:59Z It is how utterly possessed he seems, as if his body and soul had been taken over by some transcendental or demonic spirit, that makes what he does riveting to watch and hear. ArtsBeat Blog: Two Performa Events Invite One Big Question 2011-11-10T19:24:54Z The California Democrat became a social media star this week while tweeting his journey as caregiver and lawmaker caught in the mind-numbing yet riveting quest to name a speaker for the 118th Congress. Meet the antsy kids who were also stuck at the Capitol this week 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But those in the know seek out one in particular: Trinity Wall Street’s, led by Julian Wachner at Trinity Church with a sure sense of drama, and soloists drawn from its riveting chorus. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z His alarming, riveting exposé portrays a multibillion industry plagued by violence, corruption, deprivation and incompetence. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z One of the most prized van Gogh paintings, “The Starry Night” — owned by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris — shares a riveting scene in “Lust for Life.” In Detroit, a Look at America’s Passion for van Gogh 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Deeply researched, Chang’s book is a riveting read, but at times her focus — on disproving her initial bland impression of the sisters — can feel narrow. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z That was just another skirmish in the cable news culture wars, except that the bickering was woven into one of the most critical — and visually riveting — foreign news events in years. The TV Watch: As Crisis Plays Out Live on TV, Commentators Hurl Brickbats at One Another 2011-02-05T03:29:25Z In one riveting scene, the men save a wounded kite from a riverbank, swearing and complaining as they navigate a tricky, absurd and potentially dangerous situation. ‘All That Breathes’ Review: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Workmanlike fistfights and riveting choreography are the hallmarks to this sturdy, rough-around-the-edges B-movie whose easy pleasures arise from its assuredness in the genre. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Strains of “Moon River” lapped against Murray’s riveting excerpt from “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” where Huck’s loyalty to Jim is tested. Review | With Bill Murray, crossing a bridge from America past to America present 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Miraculously, the cameras rolled, and all the tension, all the ego, all the incoherence exploded into the film’s most riveting scene: Deen, cold and evil; Lohan, vulnerable and afraid. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z The Maryland Theatre Guide calls it “a surrealist religious horror show” that “descends into a riveting pre-mortem dialogue.” This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Just last month, the first new play of the shutdown by a major dramatist premiered online: Richard Nelson’s riveting “What Do We Need to Talk About?” under the aegis of off-Broadway’s Public Theater. Theaters may be dark, but theater-makers are still finding ways to dazzle you 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Years ago, Montefiore sealed his reputation as an exceptional nonfiction writer with his riveting double biography “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar” and its prequel, “Young Stalin.” ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore Trobisch, maintaining a riveting control over character and incident throughout, is brazenly uninterested in shortcuts or easy answers. My streaming gem: why you should watch All Is Well 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z But “Skeleton Crew” burrows in more deeply, through figures with more riveting histories and personalities, and the impact of these attributes makes for a more rewarding evening. Review | Detroit’s assembly line brought to vibrant life in ‘Skeleton Crew’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Much of this really was apparent; other gestures of great beauty were unexplained but riveting. Dance Review: Erasing Borders, Indian Dance at Asia Society 2010-06-06T22:28:00Z So riveting were these moments that I sometimes wished to prolong my hospital stay. ‘I Read Morning, Night and in Between’: How One Novelist Came to Love Books 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z One dancer stands out, whether alone or part of the group: Loïc Elice, who is riveting for his astonishing footwork, but also for the way he engineers loose angles into all of his moving shapes. Review: Seven Dancers Step Into the Rhythm of a Moroccan Night 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Nella and Kendra’s story lines intersect in surprising ways as the novel transitions into a riveting thriller revolving around a covert brainwashing effort and an underground resistance movement. Review | ‘The Other Black Girl’ should be at the top of your summer reading list 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z "A riveting story of endurance by an American serviceman taken prisoner by the Japanese," Horne wrote. The 10 hottest books at Seattle Public Library 2011-11-28T00:52:04Z Each has worked on enough unrelated genre titles to steer the narrative into something more coherent and riveting than the lacy patchwork employed to introduce "The Nevers." "The Nevers" is nothing more than a recycled Victorian version of every Joss Whedon show you've seen 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z By repeatedly photographing the same movements and actions from varying vantage points and with different depths of field, Ms. Opie instills a riveting narrative drive. ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Their voices ground this constantly evolving tapestry as Dorrance, and her riveting, lanky grace, guides the rhythmic pulse with her articulate feet. Review: A Ballerina With Jazz in Her Bones Takes Over 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s a riveting, terrible tale, one all too common, but Faleiro’s gorgeous prose makes it bearable. The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Sunday Bloody Sunday was riveting, not only because of her but because of the scene with Dame Peggy Ashcroft which I found stunning. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z “Serial’s” success was followed closely by “The Jinx,” and though both are very different forays into true crime, the element of real-life investigation made both riveting. What’s missing from “Making a Murderer”: How the riveting documentary’s flaws actually fuel its popularity 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The results are a captivating, riveting, rousing, condescending, smug, infuriating mixture, a potent potion that advertises itself as intelligence-enhancing but is actually just crazy-making. “Newsroom”: Aaron Sorkin does “The Daily Show” 2012-06-20T00:00:00Z How to keep reinventing the wheel in riveting ways? A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Russell is riveting with his sun blackened marshmallow skin, tandoori head and silver choke collar. "True Blood" finale: The big showdown 2010-09-13T12:30:00Z These pieces, which can easily come across as motoric and musically thin, sounded spacious and unpredictable in Mr. Olafsson’s riveting performances, interspersed with his informative spoken comments. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The exhibition brings together some riveting items about Kubrick's 13 feature films. In praise of ? Stanley Kubrick 2010-06-08T00:02:00Z “Horace and Pete” is a riveting series that dares to take big dramatic risks, but what makes it frustrating is that its problems are mundane. How ‘Horace and Pete’ Made the Network Suits Look Good 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Cumming spits out that famous speech with real fury, and his performance is riveting throughout. Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway 2013-04-25T09:45:35Z Now, my most riveting destination was Abbott’s, the local ice cream shop. Looking for French connections in Upstate New York 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The main feature is “Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale,” a riveting and violent Southern tragedy told entirely through shadow puppetry. Art Review: Rising and Regrouping on Lower East Side 2011-04-22T03:31:42Z Her riveting work, both compassionate group portrait and stinging social history, finally gives them their due. Review | Jack the Ripper’s identity has been endlessly scrutinized. His victims were largely forgotten. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z While the entire collection offers a lavish representation of an unparalleled career, for my money, the 1970s singles tell the most riveting story of the lot. Paul McCartney singles box set tells riveting story of a brilliant musician with something to prove 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z The fourth screener was the gripping “The Big Short,” with riveting performances from every member of the cast. Where are all the women in American film? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But Moneyball was riveting because it dealt as much in failure as in success; the A’s field of dreams is located a few yards from a busy freeway in a permanently downtrodden city. One More for the Road: Mary Pols? Top 10 Films of 2011 2011-12-30T14:20:36Z The effect is disconcerting – we rarely see such unfiltered staginess on film – but always riveting; there is not an inch of slack, a word wasted. Viola Davis: ‘I’m pretty fabulous’ 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “The pieces in this book … are riveting, not least those that he later developed into full-scale books,” Robert Gottlieb writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z He was riveting here, slicing and dicing notes into jagged shapes. Music Review: Ever the Charmer, Brazen and Sly, but at a Faster Clip 2011-07-01T22:26:12Z The actor also directed August Wilson’s play, deftly, and his familiarity with the play shows in this riveting screen adaption. Best men: 12 best male film performances in 2016 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z The riveting piece, given a gripping performance by Daniel Gaisford, is included on the first of three discs featuring Mr. Hersch’s solo and chamber music for string instruments, being released by Vanguard Classics. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z It’s a bit too cute of an idea, and caps a staging that is not Mr. Herheim’s conceptually tightest, nor the most riveting. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The tragic ending, on an icy river, has some of Shostakovich’s most jarring and riveting music. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Feast of the Goat” owes much to the riveting nonfiction account by Bernard Diederich, “Trujillo: The Death of the Goat.” By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Elias, who was riveting, assumed this would be her farewell to the stage. The Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias in ?Follies? on Broadway 2011-10-23T22:55:37Z If you haven't yet heard the news, this is a riveting, up-to-date oratorio concerning early 20th century mine workers that gives powerful expression to the consequences of labor and the American labor movement. West Coast premiere of 'Anthracite Fields' by L.A. Master Chorale mines the depths of American music 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The riveting documentary series “Last Chance U” is one of my favorite shows of the year, and there is no one on earth who cares less about football than I do. What You Should Watch This Thanksgiving Weekend 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z So she was pretty compelling as a Soviet partisan in Enemy at the Gates; she was riveting in The Shape of Things and threw herself into the Grisham melodrama of Runaway Jury. David Thomson on Rachel Weisz 2010-05-27T22:19:00Z They provide such a riveting record of another era that I kept wishing the actors would move their heads so I could get a better look at the background. Your next box set: Dixon of Dock Green 2012-07-19T19:00:01Z Having stuttered for most of my life, I found the authenticity of the opening scene to be both riveting and uncomfortable to watch. How "The King's Speech" gets stuttering wrong 2011-02-21T23:01:00Z It's a riveting film, the picture a little faded now, but the images and the story quite compelling. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z It is politics as riveting theater, the best history lesson you’ve ever attended. Holland Festival Tackles the Enigma That Is Europe 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z “It is riveting how much inventiveness exists. People create scenarios and write scripts for strange almost-plays,” Prince Charles once told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z In the current chapter of his career, which began when he arrived on “Breaking Bad” in 2009 and has brought five Emmy nominations, Esposito has fostered a riveting but careful consideration of good and evil. Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The film turns the act of artistic creation into a riveting vocational procedural. British 'Hello Ladies' trades in embarrassment and sentimentality 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Thoughtful and riveting, the three works were a perfect illustration of both the variety and the coherence of the opera’s aesthetic these days. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z Safely quarantined in a play, though, bad couples can be fun couples, their car-crash marriages the stuff of riveting theater. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z That becomes clear as you pore through the Cinema Treasures site, cinematreasures.org, a riveting compendium of theaters, open or closed, from around the world that can be searched by name, city or ZIP code. Movie Theaters Documented on Cinema Treasures Site 2011-08-27T03:43:02Z Here, a look back at some of the critical junctures in the volatile yet riveting trajectory of Mr. Hirst. Damien Hirst Alienated Collectors. Will His New Work Win Them Back? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Osborne’s riveting third novel, “The Forgiven,” explored the dire consequences of louche Europeans partying in conservative Morocco. Let’s not mince words: Lawrence Osborne’s ‘Beautiful Animals’ is a great book 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Interviews with Mr. Hamilton and his family and friends offer the usual behind-the-scenes look, but the riveting surfing footage and aerial shots will pull you in. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Steven Tyler: Out on a Limb’ and ‘New Girl’ 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z This riveting account tells the shocking story of two albino African-American brothers who were exhibited in a circus. 8 New Nonfiction Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The more you watch, the more you marvel at how riveting and disruptive a still figure in a busy scene can be. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z It’s unsatisfying: the potential, as we see, isn’t as riveting as the real thing. Dance Review: At the Baryshnikov, Cambodian Dreams, Far From Home 2010-06-25T22:29:00Z He singled out “The Sandbaggers,” part of a genre often pulsing with gadgetry and action, for its riveting look at complex office mind games and its stellar performances. Ray Lonnen, British actor in spy TV show ‘Sandbaggers,’ dies at 74 The band attacked it hungrily, with Jon-Erik Kellso turning a running trumpet commentary into a riveting concerto: a mean feat by any yardstick, and surely in any age. New York Hot Jazz Festival Takes Over Players Club 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z "Centurion" has its moments of manly cornpone camaraderie and certainly isn't blazingly original, but it offers riveting storytelling, gorgeous cinematography and scenery, loads of gore, and a politically complicated history lesson. "Centurion": Trapped in the Roman Empire's Vietnam 2010-08-26T01:30:00Z As an actor, you do have a sense of: `How dare I not be riveting enough that you have to check your email?' Silence less golden in movies with talking, texts 2011-06-20T20:08:09Z It was hugely popular in the 1990s, and I can see why: a murder case nearly as riveting as the gossip and squabbles of Savannah society. New & Noteworthy, From Carrie Fisher to the Case for Impeachment 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Dolores’s face as she fired off shots at the assembled crowd in the episode’s final moments was riveting—was her steely gaze the expression of a person feeling scorn and disdain blossoming darkly within her? Westworld's Finale Raises the Bar But Doesn't Quite Clear It 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z It was a riveting performance, intense and concise with every touch, weight and release measured and calibrated. Ying Quartet at Wolf Trap Barns 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z He was just as riveting on a trio version of “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” cleaning up after a virtuoso turn by Mr. McBride. Music Review: Christian McBride at Village Vanguard - Review 2011-11-30T23:30:42Z Here Affinity Konar uses that unsettling and grievous history to riveting effect in her debut novel. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z It made for riveting television but did nothing to help the legal investigation. Television: Mexican Cops: These Are Their Stories 2011-06-10T21:07:03Z And somehow, this story of how a bunch of overeducated and underattractive Harvard undergrads did a bit of software coding and started their own business becomes utterly riveting. In praise of ? Aaron Sorkin 2011-01-21T00:18:47Z And all of this makes watching it a riveting, rough, terrifying experience that simultaneously inspires. HBO's chilling "Welcome to Chechnya" depicts the heroism of ordinary people caught in an LGBTQ purge 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z At its root, "Those Who Leave" is a riveting examination of power. Women's paths diverge in Elena Ferrante's epic 'Those Who Leave' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z He demands that you notice his fashion even when it’s not that riveting. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Vera Wang and Theyskens? Theory 2012-02-15T00:09:46Z Nature’s spectacular show was more riveting than anything on a screen. A backcountry refuge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Were Cameron to allow himself to be candidly interviewed about those machiavellian power plays, it would be riveting TV. David Cameron on Letterman: politics is not light entertainment 2012-09-28T19:31:01Z The director Phyllida Lloyd reimagined “Julius Caesar,” “Henry IV” and “The Tempest” with all-female casts and set within a women’s prison; the productions are riveting and intense, and the performances often spectacular. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Dausgaard, 53, is chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony and Swedish Chamber orchestras, and as principal guest conductor of the Seattle Symphony, he recently released a riveting recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10. L.A. Chamber Orchestra's impressive guest conductor leads homage to Tim Burton, 'A Freak in Burbank' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Field directs the story of Lydia’s fall from grace with chilly, riveting precision and welcome psychological nuance. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z One black kid, one white kid and the riveting friendship that unfolds onstage in 'Dutch Masters' Carpenter arts center director resigns, saying cancellation of race-themed show is censorship 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z There is a riveting episode in a hotel room with his mother where Assange, his white hair dyed reddish-brown, is putting in contact lenses in an effort to change his appearance. For the director of “Risk,” filming Julian Assange became a spy game 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z I found some of the sections, like “Shimmer,” riveting; others, like those with the snare drums, less so. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z His description of the underground economy in the Louisiana prison system is riveting, but his explanation for why the authorities tolerate it is infuriating. Down and Out and Ripe for an Economist to Study 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z At the same time, when you’ve got one of the Top 5 most famous people on earth and they have a story that riveting, you can’t ignore it, either. The Ball's in His Court: Seth Meyers of 'Saturday Night Live' Preps for the ESPYs 2010-07-12T17:15:00Z ACT's new adaptation by R. Hamilton Wright and David Pichette is riveting, steamy and eye-popping. A steamy, riveting 'Indemnity' at ACT 2011-10-29T21:45:05Z "Out of Order: Stories From the History of the Supreme Court" is readable, accessible and full of riveting anecdotes, even if the level of detail may occasionally bore the casual reader. Former justice pens history book about the Court 2013-03-06T19:13:08Z It’s an extraordinary chess game and one that I found riveting just to get a sense of. Eddie Redmayne: I gave up science when I was 14 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The book is being published in digital format only, Blue Rider said, "so as to bring this riveting account to readers as quickly as possible." ArtsBeat: Let the 2012 Presidential Campaign Books Begin 2012-12-23T21:44:22Z It’s riveting to watch, and fascinating to see how these men inhabit similar positions in such varying ways. ‘Preachers of L.A.’ Puts New Spin on Reality-TV Formula 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z He plays not only Scrooge, Tiny Tim and various ghosts but also, in Michael Arden’s riveting film rendering, “the dying fire” and “an indignant potato.” Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Its riveting acting and nonlinear storytelling infused with cinematic shots of the galaxy and stars hold the audience in a trance. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z That’s where the documentary really gets interesting, not because it’s a riveting spy caper but because it poses a moral question: When is the wrong thing the right thing? Perspective | What will post-Roe America look like? Let’s look at pre-Roe America. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Early on, he earned the nickname “Midas” for his golden touch, coaxing poignant, rollicking or riveting performances from some of the biggest names on Broadway and in Hollywood. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies It would be hard to imagine a more inelegant piece of ceramic artistry, and yet it is riveting to behold. Art Review: In ‘Making Pottery Art’ at the Met, Beauty Is Political 2014-02-13T21:07:22Z The self-portraits are psychologically riveting, at times delusional or slightly mad. Richard Gerstl, Speeding Through Life, With Sparks 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z We opera lovers depend on singers of today with superb voices and riveting stage presences to keep the great works of the past alive. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z In this riveting, thought-provoking thriller, co-writer/star Brit Marling shines in a performance of quiet intensity as a corporate spy who infiltrates a gang of ecoterrorists and finds herself entangled in a dicey moral dilemma. A&E highlights: a fun-filled parade in Fremont, floating homes at MOHAI and festive times in Puyallup 2013-06-12T22:32:56Z Even so, watching a chubby bloke fix someone's faulty boiler does not make riveting TV. Have you been watching ... Undercover Boss? 2011-08-03T10:48:22Z And the rough-and-tumble environment of his Wild Card Boxing Club provides some riveting moments. Television Review: ?On Freddie Roach,? an HBO Documentary - Review 2012-01-19T23:31:23Z In a more positive but still ambivalent review, USA Today's Claudia Puig calls "True Story" an "intrinsically fascinating and occasionally riveting tale marred by unnecessary embellishments." 'True Story': James Franco-Jonah Hill drama doesn't convince critics 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a thoughtful if not always riveting hour of talking and dancing, informed by — but not beholden to — Ms. Vasudevan’s years of training in the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam. Review: Bending It Like Bharatanatyam 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Passing across racial boundaries is a longstanding theme in American fiction and the subject of several riveting nonfiction books. Reading About Racial Boundaries 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Once more he's riveting, and while the movie itself is an uneven, sometimes preachy affair, it's alive with possibilities whenever he's on screen. 'Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best': Half of duo steals this gig 2012-09-27T20:23:07Z Home Is Where played perhaps the most riveting set of the night. Three emo bands fight the alienation of the online world by rocking out IRL 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The Weegee Archive, as it is now known, has resulted in a series of riveting exhibitions at the International Center of Photography. Art Review: ?Weegee? at International Center of Photography - Review 2012-01-19T23:35:18Z The opening scene is a deliberately moralistic prelude that soon opens into a riveting, thought-provoking piece of theater. Review: A Scalding Take on Race in ‘White Guy on the Bus’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z It is a lament for what a broken immigration system does to families, and its final third is a riveting, heartbreaking exploration of one such case. A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z This hodgepodge blend of Portuguese and international grape varieties may be the most riveting and complete rosé I’ve ever tasted that was not an expensive vintage champagne. Toast the dog days of summer with this crisp rosé for just $13 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The show has no shortage of riveting stories that often delve into deeply painful national subjects that might not be discussed at all if not for the innocuous framework of genealogy. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z That — the heartfelt and genuine nature of the appeal coming from a generally darkly witty comic — is what makes it so riveting night after night. Jimmy Kimmel Is an Unlikely Health Care Advocate. Here's Why He's So Effective 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z From the Front Lines, if You Can See Them The thesis of Richard Rowley’s pessimistic, grimly outraged and utterly riveting documentary “Dirty Wars” is that America’s largely clandestine war on terror is now globally entrenched. Movie Review: ‘Dirty Wars,’ Directed by Richard Rowley 2013-06-06T21:37:39Z It was riveting; her casual memory somehow rearranged my amorous history. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Gergel’s riveting history examines a 1946 legal case that spurred the federal government to act in defense of racial equality at the dawn of the civil rights movement. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “This unusual organizing principle lets you map the growth of the Met from room to room, even as it creates strange, riveting juxtapositions across time,” Jason Farago wrote in his Times review. Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now). 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z "Death and Oil" is a spare, fast-paced account of the Piper Alpha tragedy as riveting as it is unsettling. 'Death and Oil': the deadly cost of oil addiction 2011-10-12T21:59:09Z Still, he was a riveting actor who threw himself into the dramatic concept of this unusual production. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z But then I listened to the current season of “Unsolved,” a riveting podcast from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which was cross-promoted in “Case Closed” ’s feed, and it all came back to me. “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Balsam, fresh from his backward plunge down the “Psycho” stairs, won an Oscar for, in essence, one riveting monologue. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z Long weeks of practice paid off with a riveting performance. 'Whiplash,' exquisite and painful, hits all the right notes 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The word genius is used quite often, but he's probably the only person I would mark down in that category: the way his mind worked was so riveting. Knockout. Hero. Genius: Cy Twombly 2011-07-06T20:30:03Z These youthful works are in many ways the show’s richest and most riveting. Review: Tomi Ungerer, Bad Boy of Art, in a Reappraisal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The documentarian Joseph Hillel tells their stories in somewhat formulaic fashion, creating a perfectly pleasant, educational movie that is not as riveting as it should be. ‘City Dreamers’ Review: The Female Architects Who Laid the Blueprint 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z "Shame" isn't an easy film to sit through, to describe or to figure out, but it's riveting, spectacular, passionate cinema. "Shame": Michael Fassbender's full-monty skin flick 2011-09-13T00:30:00Z Particularly riveting is the black-and-white composition considering the concept of “the son of man” — an ambiguous biblical phrase sometimes referring to Christ and sometimes to humanity itself. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z But the resulting “ritualization” of Bach’s oratorio, captured on DVD, is most riveting and moving. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z I picked it up because I needed it for background research, and to my delight I found it riveting and beautifully written. Tess Gerritsen Still Prefers to Read Books the Old-Fashioned Way, on Paper 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The movie itself is satisfying, riveting and tense, though many scenes feel relentless, grim and gray. Katniss is a hero for boys, too: My 11-year-old sons need more books and films like “The Hunger Games” series 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Her big, dusky voice sometimes grew unsteady, but she was riveting, moving, fun and a little demented: in other words, just what opera is supposed to be. Music Review: Coming Full Circle With a Grand Gesture 2011-03-03T21:48:01Z His life is a riveting story of our nation's founding — an improbable turn of events that seems only in retrospect inevitable. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z All of this makes for a riveting album, one that has something much more sinister happening underneath its cheery veneer. Sleigh Bells Turn it Up on Reign of Terror 2012-02-23T16:59:55Z It’s not exactly riveting to watch June download and install WhatsApp so that she can video call Colombia. ‘Missing’ Review: Mom’s Lost in the Matrix 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z I found the video riveting, deceptively modest and yet intricately structured and manipulated. Exclusive First Look at Bon Iver's Digital Deluxe Edition 2011-11-28T09:58:38Z “Deeply researched, Chang’s book is a riveting read,” Jiayang Fan writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The only character more compelling than Frank is his wife – Robin Wright’s magnificent turn as Claire Underwood exposed the metastasizing ambitions of a political partnership, and her riveting trajectory resonated with real events. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Whatever the cause, his would prove one of the sincerest, most riveting performances of the evening. 10 best moments from MTV's Video Music Awards 2010-09-13T12:36:00Z He is particularly riveting early in the film, when he is shown going on a series of job interviews. Movie Review: ‘Life of a King’ Stars Cuba Gooding Jr., and Chess 2014-01-17T00:12:28Z A riveting and grimly realistic drama set in New York City in 1900, when surgical procedures were little more than a bloody crapshoot. 'Transparent,' 'The Affair' among new TV series in Golden Globes arena 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z He's gotten millions of hits on YouTube for his riveting renditions of popular songs: It was a version of George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" that first got him widespread attention several years ago. Jake Shimabukuro converting skeptics with ukulele 2011-03-18T12:16:04Z So far, both are absolutely riveting, though the second episode much more so. 60 Days In: a captivating look at corruption and American justice 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Most readers will never know, though this riveting book will make many feel as if they’ve had a taste of it. In New Novels for Kids, Dangerous Journeys and Hockey Madness 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Now music director of the Hamburg State Opera and its orchestra, Nagano led his local forces in a riveting, inspiring performance that was an idealistic blend of elegance, grandeur, warmth, commitment and passion. At the G-20, Beethoven is played and the world listened (maybe) 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z He is riveting to watch — a cocky, heavy-breathing creature with no idea how repellent he is, or how ridiculous. Review: Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Both echo through this totally riveting show, and resound through all the Met galleries beyond. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Davis is riveting as Booth, the younger brother, a brash shoplifter with big dreams. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z A few times I closed my eyes and just listened, and the show immediately turned stranger and more riveting. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Einstein on the Beach’ Tries to Recapture a New York Era 2012-09-21T22:25:18Z A similarly restrictive setup was exploited to perfection in “The Subway,” a riveting 1997 episode of “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Movie Review: ‘As Luck Would Have It,’ Spanish Film With José Mota 2013-02-03T23:34:11Z What follows is a riveting exploration of her new condition as she steps into a world of paradoxically heightened perception. Lina Meruane's 'Seeing Red' is a piercing novel of blindness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Yet every moment of the performance was riveting, thanks to the intensely dramatic and vocally impassioned singing of the leads and to Mr. Luisi’s urgent conducting. Fraught Seasons at Met and City Opera 2010-05-08T21:35:00Z The production, staged by the theater’s artistic director, Alex Levy, is often riveting, but not because of the script by E.M. Good acting can’t save ‘Now Comes the Night’ at 1st Stage 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Although the graffiti-style sign over the door advertises “Palestinian Street Food,” there is more riveting hummus and falafel elsewhere in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, like the superb Al-Aqsa Bakery & Restaurant on Fifth Avenue. 17 Restaurants Where New Yorkers Can Make Up for Lost Time 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z As a conductor, he was so riveting to watch that the performers visually locked onto his face and his hands, ready to follow him anywhere. Tribute: George Shangrow, a roaring presence on Seattle's classical-music scene 2010-08-07T00:21:00Z Base for ship models, Erector Set riveting, paint, glue and plaster, platter for mother’s baking creations, dolls’ tea parties, picnics and sick-a-bed meals. A single board, three generations of service 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z It doesn’t need to; this stark and riveting version of events speaks for itself. Review: ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’ Revisits the Psychology of Power and Abuse 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z In this riveting fever dream of a play, which opened on Wednesday night, the three characters we meet are the human equivalents of caged songbirds. Review: The Private Dystopias of ‘Arlington’ and ‘Rooms’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But that would be interesting only for a short while if she weren’t also a rivetingly mysterious performer with remarkable powers of dramatic absorption. Dance Review: Movement to Fill Every Corner of a Space 2010-10-11T21:18:00Z With nothing but a mat and a live drummer, they created a riveting show of the most incredible physical feats. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z Huang is attuned to the ironies of their story in his incisive and riveting account. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Then it’s riveting television, primarily because you knowhow grueling it is to do something like “Fran” and so you watch the relative ease of these athletes with awe. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z Nonfiction writers have made riveting narrative from sprawling, difficult material: The Irish Troubles, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the history of the Lakota tribe. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The collages are interesting, but the paintings are riveting in their gorgeousness. Art In Review: TERRY WINTERS: ?Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures & Notebook? 2012-02-24T00:13:01Z That fiery show was riveting; in this one the mood was more tentative, less serene than sedated. Music Review: Jordi and Ferran Savall at Morgan Library & Museum - Review 2011-10-14T23:05:59Z Viewed in one big, black market-grade dose, however, the intimate look inside the head and home of Charlie Sheen made for riveting television. Charlie Sheen's ego explodes on "20/20" 2011-03-02T13:30:00Z Rather, this two-time Oscar winner has been a riveting television presence portraying ane underhanded United States president, Francis Underwood, in “House of Cards” on Netflix. Tony Awards 2017: What to Expect 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z "The Falcon & the Snowman" was another, a thriller with political implications, in which the actor's descent into drugs and deception is riveting. 'The Gunman' with Sean Penn a misfire that wastes strong cast 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “Guts and Glory” revives the decades in which pro football became the country’s most riveting spectator sport. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Gerhard Richter, Bruce Davidson, Cartoon Advertising, Football 2011-11-03T20:10:14Z Even to non-Danish speakers, this proved far more riveting than listening to the same poems repeated blandly in German translation. Young Immigrant in Denmark Lashes Out in Verse 2014-04-02T17:00:39Z What is finally most riveting about this strange and unsettling book is not the grim fascination of Lasdun's situation; it's the moral intelligence and intensity with which he examines it. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z The sisters’ stories are riveting, as Esther’s slow-blooming realization that her relationship with the preacher is not limited to prayer. A Mom Plans. Her Daughters Do Their Own Things, as Daughters Do. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The spectacle is riveting: The gargantuan toys, executed in scary detail, do particular tribute to the Paris Opera’s design workshops. Review: ‘Iolanta’ and ‘The Nutcracker,’ Reunited Naturalistically at the Paris Opera 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The subject may not be cheery, but the piece itself, as realized at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, Va., is riveting. Motherhood in all its complexity 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The book, which is pacey and riveting, is full of her: her prejudices and enthusiasms, her dry, self-deprecating wit. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z I’m no fan of one-trick tourist attractions, but four presidents carved into a cliff is, admittedly, riveting — and the Sturgis attendees seemed to agree. Frugal Traveler: Motorcycles, Memorials and the Middle of Nowhere 2013-08-22T22:38:59Z Their facial expressions and body postures are strangely riveting and remind us that human beings live outside of ordinary time, without a script. The Weird, Violent, Uplifting Paintings of Mark Greenwold 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z He also happens to be one of jazz’s most riveting pianists — a largely self-taught master of stride piano, with a lightning-fast right hand. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s multi-front battle that, in this riveting account, encompasses conflicts over immigration, abortion and voting rights. New this week: Beyoncé, Alanis Morissette and Emmy noms 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z “As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head,” our reviewer, Jason Goodwin, writes. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Train’s books on investing were praised as riveting in The New York Times and “classic” in The Wall Street Journal. John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Hearing Dylan knead his way into all the songs creates a riveting, you-are-there audio documentary. Review: Bob Dylan’s The Cutting Edge Bootleg Series 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The film is a riveting, moving portrait of the human toll our system of overincarceration exacts on millions of lives. “We wanted to make a film about our nation’s failure”: New documentary profiles real-life victims of three-strikes policy 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Cue "Faultlines," a riveting, surprising song about the fractures and tectonic shifts that occur within ourselves and our lives. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z He went on to fashion one of the most riveting sculptural ensembles the Renaissance produced. 'Sculpture in the Age of Donatello' shows artist's competitive spirit 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But the Americans won their legitimacy that evening with a riveting, Broadway-like fashion show that left the French looking boorish and out-of-touch. ‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z This first novel is packed with riveting characters, incisive humour and relentless energy. Manil Suri's top 10 books about Mumbai 2013-03-13T13:28:19Z Don't bother reading them, unless you're an insomniac – they're not exactly riveting, but they set out what politicians call "a clear framework" for digital radio in this country. Analogue to digital | Radio review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z That said, King's richly layered, technologically savvy story that illuminates Mr. Mercedes, his evil deeds and even more monstrous plans is uncomfortable yet riveting to read. Driven to solve murders in Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z And then, what are you going to do just before the title sequence that is so riveting that they say, I’ll just see how that resolves, and then I’ll go? Steven Moffat on why he hasn’t cast a female Doctor yet: “I think it would have been a disaster” 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The simple serenity of Hurlin’s face, framed by cascading curls, is riveting, as is the daring amplitude of her expressive, singular dancing. Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z This compact, riveting novel, about a 17-year-old working-class girl forced by her parents to join a re-enactment of Iron Age Britain, asks us to question our complicity in violence, particularly against women. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z This may be part of the reason the most riveting special on grief spends no time analyzing the subject. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z But it is Cézanne’s treatment of Hortense’s mouth — surely the sourest and meanest in the history of portraiture — that is truly riveting. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z A riveting account of two albino African-American brothers who were exhibited in a circus. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But the star vocalist was the Russian soprano Tatiana Serjan, who sang Lady Macbeth with riveting incisiveness while keeping her tone free of harshness. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z Here was that elusive unknown unknown: a work that at first glance appeared to be no more than an academic exercise in folk-music transcription yet turned into a riveting drama. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Performs ‘Tales From the Nine Bells’ 2014-05-07T20:58:48Z His own story is one of those he knits together in this riveting account of the men and women who refused to surrender in the face of AIDS. The AIDS crisis in America... 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The most riveting portrait, unsurprisingly, is by Albrecht Dürer, Germany’s greatest Renaissance artist. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z I just finished “Catch and Kill” by Ronan Farrow, which was riveting. Lauren Graham’s Week: Background Binges and Books, Books, Books 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z And it was shot in the Bronx, hand-held video where the documentarians rode in the back of the cop car, and it was riveting. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z The upside of this is that Lombardo’s sense of drama is evocative and riveting. Review | Jane Smiley reviews a novel so intimate and familiar it’s almost as though you’re eavesdropping 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z What you see in a minute, but I saw five hours of that exchange and it is riveting. How Mike Wallace changed TV journalism: "You had to compete" 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Supersize captions are often most riveting as an expression of so-called realness, lending heft and credibility and to a medium long sniffed at as visual froth. The Captionfluencers 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Fox is riveting as a stubborn go-getter who often employs morally questionable methods for the sake of truth and art. ‘Intrigo: Samaria’ Review: An Old Murder Mystery Unearthed 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In his refreshingly frank memoir, neurosurgeon Henry Marsh shares his doubts and fears along with riveting case histories. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z What makes it riveting anyway is its eagerness to admit, and to subtly criticize by juxtaposition, all arguments. Review: In ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ a Red-State Unicorn 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z This is riveting history, containing a suprising amount of camp grandeur. TV highlights 04/03/2013 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z When Rama and his beloved Sita lay down to sleep, they did so like two-dimensional bas reliefs, each resting his or her entire upper-body weight upon one elbow with riveting control. Music Academy in Chennai Hosts Indian Dance Festival 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z He did this with the barest increase in volume, and the effect was riveting, his restraint adding force to his argument. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z Robert J. Mrazek, a writer and former congressman, uses Engelhart’s diary, together with Finch’s letters, to construct “The Indomitable Florence Finch,” a riveting story of courage and sacrifice. A Woman Who Resisted the Japanese Military 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Up close backstage, the effect was riveting, when Erdem , as he is known, singled out his different surface backcloths as velvet, rubberized raincoat material, or even garter elastic. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z His riveting newly translated novel, “The Merman,” aligns more with his Scandinavian predecessor Hans Christian Andersen, whose mermaid felt as though she were walking on knives and died. ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Despite Parmitano's calm demeanor, the sequence is riveting, even alarming, as a reminder of the risks of space travel -- and may recall for some viewers the recent outer-space thriller "Gravity." 'Live From Space': TV special takes viewers on 17,500 mph ride 2014-03-13T19:08:40Z The second-floor gallery housing the exhibition radiates with riveting black-and-white photographs, but the most evocative object may be the bare beechwood deck chair with a ripped rattan seat. One Titanic Survivor Goes on View: A Deck Chair 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Compared with his riveting recital, simultaneously reassuring and bewildering, the orchestra concert earlier in the evening was not bad but bland. Paul Lewis Plays Mozart and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-08T23:12:58Z It’s an old story that makes for riveting viewing, but does not have the virtue of being true. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z The most riveting chapter in “Ticker” leaves Texas for Utah, the site of the first successful artificial heart in 1982 — “successful” being a relative word. The Quest to Create and Perfect an Artificial Heart 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z In his review for The Times, Charles Isherwood called Davies’s impersonation of the singer “positively uncanny,” writing that she sings Joplin’s songs “with a throbbing fervor that is often riveting.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Creed’ and ‘First Reformed’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z I found the work to be riveting — but confounding. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z With his justly acclaimed horror movie “It Follows,” which features a riveting opening sequence that will freak you the hell out, Mitchell has essentially made the same movie again, translated into a different genre. “It Follows”: An instant horror classic about the dark side of teen sex 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But from the point of view of those creating "The Circus," they are the ingredients of riveting TV drama. Brett Kavanaugh gives “The Circus” what it desperately needs: cliffhangers and unpredictable... 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The text, which includes passages of untranslated Spanish and American Sign Language, too often forfeits accessibility for symbology, with results that are sometimes riveting, other times downright perplexing. 'Swarm Cell' at Greenway Court is a cryptic take on 'Grapes of Wrath' 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Hornaday uses the actors who portrayed Boston Globe reporters in “Spotlight” as an example, describing how they spent months rehearsing as an ensemble before creating an on-screen performance that felt “organic, un-showy, and rivetingly dramatic.” Don’t just watch movies — understand them 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Leading the London Symphony Orchestra in two concerts of Mozart and Shostakovich at Avery Fisher Hall in October, Mr. Haitink elicited riveting, focused playing. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z But if 30 years after their start in Seattle clubs, the members of Alice in Chains are indeed dinosaurs, these beasts are still roaming the earth and making riveting music. Alice in Chains back together and better than ever 2013-05-24T19:57:46Z The effect was riveting, and a strong indication of Karabits's deep sense of purpose. BSO/Kyrill Karabits 2010-10-11T21:01:00Z “The Divider” concludes with a riveting few chapters on Trump’s mad scheming to hold onto power after his November 2020 defeat — resulting in the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z What happens in most riveting literature is seldom located solely in plot. In ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts Her Mother’s Murder 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z At New York Live Arts in September, Ms. Ratsifandrihana was especially riveting, navigating the work’s geometries with revelatory tenderness and concentration. Best Dance of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The gifted Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke writes and directs this riveting crime saga, which traffics in the tropes of gangster pictures, but does so with the empathy of an indie drama. ‘Disappearance at Clifton Hill,’ ‘Damsel’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the great Rosalind Plowright is an utterly riveting Princess, the cruelly unforgiving aunt who wreaks havoc when she visits the erring Angelica in the convent after ignoring her for seven years. Singers, not spectacle, at heart of Seattle Opera double bill 2013-05-05T17:27:55Z But, while the first-hand testimony is riveting, Lafferty's production strains too hard to reproduce the sights and sounds of the bombing that we vicariously experience every night on television. The Fear of Breathing – review 2012-07-22T15:47:10Z Now I’m eager to hear the score in the hands of Simon Rattle, returning to the Met on Dec. 13 after a riveting “Tristan und Isolde” in 2016. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The result is a riveting story with beautifully crafted shots of desperate scenes. 'It needs to make you uncomfortable': the opioid documentary set to shock America 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z And it is geekily riveting, offering live views of underwater research sites, along with plenty of scientist chit-chat. Moment of Friday: Hagfish hanky-panky, Lily Simonson's oceanic obsession 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Much of this becomes forgivable with time, as the somewhat labored opening pivots to riveting final acts. Video Game Review: In the Video Game The Last of Us, Survival Favors the Man 2013-06-14T04:15:09Z “The Swordsman,” Choi Jae-hoon’s riveting period piece, rewarded my proclivity for the retired loner who is once again compelled to wield an exquisite slashing talent against the vicious goons disturbing a hard-fought peace. Five Action Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z It's a riveting story of personal hubris and political chicanery. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer ? review 2011-03-06T00:10:59Z “The Spill” travels back, looking at BP’s bleak environmental and safety record, and unpacks in riveting outline the company’s March 2005 disaster. | 'The Spill': Above It All: Tracing BP?s Imperious History 2010-10-25T22:21:00Z While it may not quite possess the Ibsenite power of Rutherford and Son, which Northern Broadsides are reviving this week The Stepmother is riveting stuff. The Stepmother – review 2013-02-11T18:03:35Z The character has only two riveting monologues, the first in Act II, when Leon, unable to bear any more from these bullying punks, dares to denounce them. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Even if you’re not a fan of the sport, the crowd’s roaring passion is a riveting show. 2010-01-29T05:21:00Z The choreography of the performers is an integral part of any percussion piece and the Third Coast members were a delight to watch, moving with a riveting blend of precision and fluidity. Review: Augusta Read Thomas’s Spiritual ‘Resounding Earth’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Lieber, moving from the depths of some internal space, was her usual riveting self. Review: Sensation and Skin, in a Theater Housed in Bodies 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But it is impossible to finish this medieval melodrama without thinking that it would make a riveting series for an enterprising TV producer. A dark duke 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z I don’t want to spoil the suspense, so I’ll just say that Nori lives many lives in this riveting, occasionally melodramatic, always entertaining novel. You’re Going to Want to Join this Odyssey Through Postwar Japan 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In the most riveting section, Mr. Andrieux — who remains stiffly deadpan throughout — performs the long routine with which the Cunningham dancers begin their daily class. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z In his phenomenal graphic memoir, “Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice,” Smith teams up with the award-winning author Derrick Barnes to tell his own riveting story of balancing athletic prowess and social activism. Sports Stories That Transcend Sport 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Yet her exposed voice is riveting, changing character from song to song. Aldous Harding’s Songs Won’t Be Pinned Down. Nor Will Her Voice. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The opening minutes are riveting, as they show the Creature coming twitchingly to life and learning to crawl, sit, stand, walk and eventually run. Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein' should be monster hit 2011-02-24T14:36:34Z If the end result was predictable, the process by which it was reached was nonetheless riveting. Review: In ‘Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,’ Violinist Uses More Than Strings and a Bow 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “It is groundbreaking stuff, absolutely explicit, every action is described. It’s very saucy and very riveting,” said Whitbread. Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z And yet despite Dano's riveting, deeply internalized performance as a good, well-meaning man who's tragically ill-equipped to handle adulthood, "For Ellen" falls short of those other, better films. 'For Ellen': Paul Dano is riveting in thinly plotted fatherhood drama 2012-09-13T20:28:03Z "Night Will Fall" proves a riveting, devastating, heartbreaking and deeply important film, one that you will likely never forget. 'Night Will Fall' an eye-opener about documenting Nazi camps 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z From the researched to the riveting, here’s a glimpse into the long overlooked literature of the comfort women. A guide to the literature of Japan’s “comfort women”: Comfort station survivors tell their stories 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The whole arc of the story is going to be riveting.” Rock Stars of Books: Musicians? Big Sales 2011-07-08T22:31:03Z Well-researched and riveting, “Kent State” will speak to teens today who are working for social justice. Perspective | Five new books for your teenager’s summer reading pile 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “This unusual organizing principle lets you map the growth of the Met from room to room, even as it creates strange, riveting juxtapositions across time.” New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z He’s worried that his child will exclusively read graphic novels because they’re often so easy to digest, so fun, so fast-paced, so riveting. Beauty and the Beasts 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z And a sort of “greatest hits” anthology of scenes from “Macbeth” becomes a riveting portrait of a marriage drifting from fatal complicity to bleak, lonely estrangement. Theater Review: ‘Women of Will’ at the Gym at Judson Memorial Church 2013-02-03T23:10:30Z It’s unfocused but oddly riveting — and that’s before it segues into the album’s straight-faced valediction, a gospel cover of “Happy Trails.” New Music: Sara Bareilles, George Duke and Ace Hood 2013-07-15T20:42:55Z Danny Boyle masterfully turned a potentially off-putting true story into a riveting tale of suspense, wit and just plain celebration of life. 10 favorite movies of 2010 ? plus 10 runners-up 2010-12-31T01:23:13Z Looking at the able-bodied yet vacant-eyed figure of Paulet, in the riveting “Smoker,” you sense that Cézanne needed his subjects to be as absorbed in their leisure as he was in his work. Art Review: Workers at Rest: Smoking and Playing Cards 2011-02-10T21:40:34Z I found the Oscars live absolutely riveting as I have never found them before. Wrongbestfilmgate was a moment of pure chaos – my night of shocks at the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The story made for riveting television and before the broadcast was even over, tips started pouring into the America's Most Wanted call center. The End of America's Most Wanted: Good News for Criminals? 2011-07-29T09:00:00Z Her unmooring in "War Story" is terrible and fascinating to behold, Keener's performance riveting. Catherine Keener provides unsettling portrait of trauma in 'War Story' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Zero Dark Thirty is certainly more accessible than, say, a Senate intelligence report, simply because it’s a riveting, beautifully made movie with excellent performances that’s likely playing at your local multiplex, if you’re in America. Behind the Story: TIME’s Jessica Winter on Kathryn Bigelow and Zero Dark Thirty 2013-01-25T12:45:35Z “Lenox” captured a staggering range of human emotion, so it felt like both a riveting narrative and a modern wisdom text about the ebbs and flows of life and loss. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Turner, whose blazing pictures turned stale history painting into riveting visual narratives of light exploding across water. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z "Master of Thin Air" by Andrew Lock is a riveting, often thrilling account of what it takes to challenge the Earth's highest peaks and survive. Racing against the dark on Mt. Kanchenjunga 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Her story is better than Diane's – a riveting drama of big egos, corrupted institutions, divided loyalties, conflicted motives, personal anguish, and, yes, real debate about science and saving the planet. Take climate scientists to task, but avoid formulaic boffin-bashing 2011-02-11T18:19:34Z Splashed across the entire first page of his riveting book, “The Last Painting of Sara de Vos,” is the plaque for the fictional painting that dominates his narrative: Review: ‘The Last Painting of Sara de Vos,’ a riveting tale of art theft 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Reuniting three childhood friends for the funeral of a fourth, the film is a riveting portrait of young men in shock and in mourning as the tragedy stirs feelings that have long lain dormant. Movie Review: ‘Redlegs’ by Brandon Harris Is a Cincinnati Tale 2012-05-25T01:01:40Z In each chapter, Dickey spins riveting tales and then carefully unwinds these narratives, exposing the materials and motivations of their construction. Haunted Houses Are About More Than Just Ghosts 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “Permanent Record” is a riveting account and a curious artifact. In Edward Snowden’s New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z It is also a riveting and troubling portrait of a people in a state of extreme anxiety about their identity, values and future. ‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Whether swinging her legs like a mischievous child or squatting on a toilet — yes, Elliott’s staging goes there — she brings her precision comedy and riveting charisma to every moment she’s onstage. Review: In a Gender-Flipped Revival, ‘Company’ Loves Misery 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z While such legalese does not exactly make for a riveting courtroom drama, for an elite niche — consisting largely of federal judges and their clerks — “Supreme Ambitions” has become the most buzzed-about novel of the year. David Lat’s ‘Supreme Ambitions’ Is a Thriller for Lawyers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z As narrator and vocalist for Friday’s performance Ms. Sciubba, who was born in Rome to German-Italian parents and grew up in Munich and Nice, was a subdued and riveting presence. Music Review: A Fairy-Tale Anniversary 2011-06-12T22:15:28Z Outside this enclosure, the walls of the surrounding gallery provide a riveting overview of Hopper’s career and his diverse subject matter. Art Review: ‘Hopper Drawing,’ at the Whitney Museum 2013-06-06T21:44:48Z But she’s as riveting as the heroine of a 1940s film noir: her luster, her urgency and her enigma exert equal force. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z It's an unsettling start that ushers us into a riveting, if unusually dark, interpretation of a work commonly described in terms of autumnal wit. Falstaff – review 2012-07-23T16:35:38Z They don’t reflect the artist, and they don’t picture the world: they are simply in it, part of the vast, riveting not-us and not-him. Art Review: ?Yves Klein,? Retrospective at Hirschorn Museum 2010-06-03T21:58:00Z He is a riveting storyteller, ably heightening the tension between the story’s past and present. A newly discovered corpse raises new questions about a 20-year-old mystery 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z His dissection of the commie conspiracy is riveting from start to bloody finish. Your next box set: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 2011-01-14T08:00:04Z The team elicits both riveting performances and interviews: funny, sad, emotional and, at times, shocking. Casting JonBenét director on our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queen 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In The New York Times, Walter Kerr called it “easily the most riveting new serious play we’ve had to contend with all season.” Jack Hofsiss, Stage Director of ‘The Elephant Man,’ Dies at 65 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z These details about the teen-next-door gone wrong are riveting to those still horrified by the marathon tragedy. Inside the Wild and Addictive World of Celebrity Fan Fiction 2013-08-26T09:45:08Z All of this, riveting in itself, underlines the breadth of Austen's experience of life; spinsters in vicarages know more of the human condition at first hand than might be imagined. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z For example, "The Big Short" may seem like an outlier when compared to those other films, but it "Crackles" because it "makes the 2008 financial crash feel like a riveting corporate thriller." The 9 best free streaming services worthy of downloading 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Morgan Saylor is never less than riveting whenever she is on screen. "You Mean Everything to Me" star Morgan Saylor on this seductive cautionary tale: "I love bleakness" 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It remains a riveting, alarming tale of massive chicanery and petty vendetta, or, as Nixon Library historian Timothy Naftali puts it: "'House of Cards' on steroids." 'Dick Cavett's Watergate' a showcase of TV host's tenacity 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z I can't give away too much of this riveting book's secrets, except to say: Gunther's no angel, but he's not the devil either. Crime fiction: lingering shadows of World War II in three new suspense novels 2011-04-06T23:05:04Z In it, the focus is Mr. Peck’s creative process, but the way the film tells the story from the point of view of his body is similar to Ms. Hightower’s quietly riveting depiction of Toni. ‘The Fits’: It’s All in the Footwork for a Girl Who Boxes, Then Dances 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z But at a surreal moment, when much of live TV was stuttering and stumbling, Toobin’s voice was both authoritative and riveting. Perspective | Jeffrey Toobin went ballistic about Trump and Comey. It was great TV. 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z As satirical and clever as it is, “The Screwtape Letters” is nonetheless a sermon at heart, and sermons are rarely the stuff of riveting drama. | 'The Screwtape Letters': Adaptation of C. S. Lewis Novella at Westside Theater 2010-06-11T22:44:00Z Yet many of his characters share certain traits: an easy charisma, a riveting physicality and a propensity for memorable monologues. Andrew Garfield contains multitudes 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Shivalingappa’s riveting skill in Kuchipudi has been seen in America on several occasions, including a season at Jacob’s Pillow in Massachusetts and a performance at the 2007 Fall for Dance festival. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z A lesser-known corollary to this is that the more personal the politics, the more riveting the drama. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “Ultimately, theirs is one of the most riveting stories of our time: a modern-day Greek tragedy about money, power, lies, family, truth and consequences,” a statement from the publisher said. ArtsBeat Blog: Madoffs on Madoff: Publisher Speeds Up Release of Book 2011-09-15T13:43:09Z All he wanted to do was make “a straightforward riveting thriller”. Dr Alien, PhD: the horror classic that academia loves 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z One of the most riveting pieces here is “Anxiety,” which depicts the artist’s naked breasts and the scars and scabs of self-mutilation. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z As well covered as that 2018 event was, the riveting documentary details anew how a global coalition and a handful of cave-diving hobbyists pulled off an extraordinary feat. New this week: ‘Power of the Dog,’ ‘Annie’ live and Kenny G 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Persistent gender issues also demonstrate some of what the “Women of Abstract Expressionism” were up against 60 years ago, as the devastating Second World War ended and most Rosies stopped riveting. A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Having populated previous pieces with homeless alcoholics and forgotten nursing home residents, Kinevane is back with a riveting Odyssey Theatre-Fishamble co-production of his latest work, aptly titled “Underneath,” which excavates realities hidden below surface appearances. A one-man show about a horribly disfigured woman: Pat Kinevane's riveting 'Underneath' 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Tesfaye answers the question with a strong performance that is short on gimmicks, but long on riveting vocal drama. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z “The simple serenity of Hurlin’s face, framed by cascading curls, is riveting, as is the daring amplitude of her expressive, singular dancing,” Kourlas wrote. Ballet Theater Promotes Several Dancers, Including 3 to Principal 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z A novel that is concerned with friendship, geopolitics, math, and science, it’s talky and intellectual, while also unfolding a riveting drama: a deeply satisfying book, all the more impressive for being Rahman’s first. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Some of it remains very unpleasant – as any production of Salome should – but it's also riveting from beginning to end. Salome 2010-07-05T21:45:00Z Mr. Tcherniakov, as it happens, directed a startling, riveting “The Tsar’s Bride” last year in Berlin. ‘The Tsar’s Bride,’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z This book is a riveting epic of one artist’s career, three volumes to live with for years and years. Paper Gallery: Art Books on Winslow Homer, Mati Klarwein and Gustav Klimt 2013-01-17T22:01:35Z A gorgeously imagined fantasy, a forceful plea for living in balance with nature, and a riveting adventure that recalls the classic samurai films of Kurosawa — what’s not to like? Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “Personal Shopper” stars a riveting Kristen Stewart as a sullen celebrity fashion assistant, bereft after the death of her twin brother, a medium. New York Film Festival: Determined Women and Uncertainty in the World 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z "Buried," is a riveting horror-thriller real-time saga of a truck driver who finds himself buried alive. No Rehearsal Necessary For Ryan Reynolds In "Buried" 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z The action is riveting, the characters compelling, and the art positively cinematic. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The Piano Sonata No. 4 is equally tense, its dark undercurrents illuminated here with riveting intensity and the bravura finale dazzling for its energy and clarity. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev at Carnegie, Channeling Rage and Grief 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z “The family on the set was so wonderful,” she says, especially the two Charlottes — Gainsbourg, who plays her sister, and a riveting Rampling as her mother. T Magazine: Kirsten Dunst: '60s Going on 30 2011-10-14T02:17:29Z In this banding together, you see not just a riveting story but a company having reached a new horizon. Review: The Balletic Rise and Fall of Eva Perón 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, Vedder’s friend and member of his Earthlings band, again began the evening with a brief but riveting solo set. Eddie Vedder honors Mark Lanegan during second Seattle show 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z And some people, such like myself, actively anticipate David Ehrlich’s annual video countdown in which he blends his 25 favorite movies of the year into a riveting and beautiful tribute to cinema. A Video Countdown of the Year's 25 Best Movies 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z In the 2008 version, too, the orchestra’s performance lacks a certain heft, but the youthful exuberance is palpable, and the rush to the end is positively riveting. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z These people, now remembered mostly only by historians, offer riveting accounts of adventure, intrigue, suspense and unimaginable violence. 'The First Frontier': the bloody centuries before America's revolution 2012-02-15T22:17:06Z Tanabe’s descriptions of how these young people endure the physical and emotional suffering of war is riveting. Three young people drawn together by World War II 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z So the stories spill out, in a riveting cascade. Perspective | A cool musical where? The autumn season of plays at American Shakespeare Center is a rich one. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z They're respectively a fascinating new way of telling the story of what money is and a mordantly riveting first novel about what it's like to be a thirtysomething. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z Slender, agile and an impressive dancer, Mr. Frost gave a riveting performance. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z A fantasia and a pavan and galliard by William Byrd were riveting. Richard Egarr brings ancient music to life at Library of Congress concert 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z And with magisterial poise and serene control, Mr. Hadelich became a riveting storyteller, which was the point of this piece. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z Andrew Cyrille opens one of his two new albums, “The Declaration of Musical Independence,” with a syncopated figure on a snare drum, as taut and riveting as a military cadence. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The energy that made him such a riveting presence onscreen comes through in his book. When It Comes to Living With Uncertainty, Michael J. Fox Is a Pro 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z "Captain Phillips is a riveting experience," said the festival's director of programming, Kent Jones. Greengrass film to open NY festival 2013-07-30T09:11:03Z Ms. Burton’s presentation was beautiful, but the monumental aspect was riveting — how it affects your eye. On the Runway Blog: McQueen: Changing the Perspective 2012-03-06T20:47:18Z A riveting presence, she was committed to the moment in every phrase she sang, every gesture she made. Music Review: A Pair of Siegfrieds Complete the ?Ring? 2011-06-20T21:38:53Z The conspiracy to take down Mr. Spitzer may be a major preoccupation of “Client 9,” but Mr. Spitzer’s halting attempts to explain himself may prove more riveting. Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties 2010-10-23T02:33:00Z There are many unforgettable scenes, best left for viewers to discover, and the film culminates in a riveting final sequence. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Though there is a market for riveting appointment television, as “The Big Bang Theory,” “Scandal,” “The Walking Dead” and “Empire” regularly prove, CBS isn’t going for that. “Star Trek” vs. peak TV: How can the campy, hopeful space drama compete with “Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead”? 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The preview above is a riveting look at the upcoming film’s fast-paced action and grisly desert wars waged from anachronistic-looking vehicles. Watch the Thrilling Trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The group’s deliberations and negotiations — and their amazement at the relative luxuries now available to them — are moving and riveting to watch. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Her book is a riveting portrait of an era. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Thorn writes rivetingly about the anxious monotony of a carer's limbo, and, tentatively, about the love between them, with very little yuck factor. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z These riveting cameos mostly consist of three lines from a teleprompter and the opening of an envelope. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Grace and Frankie’ and a Tribute to Lorraine Hansberry 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s something the Elizabeth of The Crown, unaware of what is to come in future, likely more riveting seasons, would surely not have sanctioned. Netflix’s 'The Crown' Makes the Most of an Unknowable Queen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z As an angry, woozy lost soul with a brief chance at redemption, McDonald is riveting. Cue the 2012 Tony Awards, and a stripped-down Broadway season 2012-06-07T21:40:41Z She was a riveting Lady Macbeth in a modern-dress, 2014 Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's version of Shakespeare's play, where she was a convincingly desperate housewife from hell. Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z In his riveting picture Combing the Hair in London's National Gallery, Degas dreams of a feminine world enflamed by red, a fleshly paradise. Red is the colour of sex – and the colour of money when it comes to selling art 2013-06-12T14:16:24Z Yet this glowing powerhouse can be rivetingly muted, subtly eloquent, possessed of marvelous stillness. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But just as riveting are the moments when she is silent. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Yet where Strauss put the blood and horror right into the music of his riveting opera, Milhaud tells the story with a restraint and an objectivity that enrich the antiquity of the myth. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z But the juice of the grape was being extolled as absolutely essential to our daily diet at the Almeida Theater in Islington, where a riveting production of Euripides’s “Bakkhai” was hypnotizing a packed house. London Journal: A Nonstop Carnival of Culpability 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “It was like Lorraine opened a new chapter in theater,” Ms. Dee recalls in the film, describing the standing ovation and riveting response on opening night. For Lorraine Hansberry, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Was Just the Start 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z In this riveting work, Mr. Hertzberg, 24, demonstrates that a gifted young composer can be inspired by masters and still speak with a vibrantly personal style. Review: The Composers Concert, With David Hertzberg and Other Young Masters 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z But, while there are echoes of that idea in David Farr's stimulating new RSC version and Jonathan Slinger's riveting protagonist, both suffer from an excess of detail. Hamlet – review 2013-03-27T18:17:55Z The fierce, indelible performance of Ms. Hofstätter, a regular in Mr. Seidl’s films, may make you cringe with revulsion, but it is utterly riveting. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z In its citation, the prize jury called the book, which draws on both Mexican and U.S. archives, a “riveting” account that helps “shift the boundaries of what constitutes American history.” Histories of Hoover, the Mexican Revolution and 1790s New York Win Bancroft Prize 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z “The Breach: Inside the Impeachment of Bill Clinton,” was billed as “an intimate, riveting depiction of how one of the nation’s biggest political scandals unfolded.” Two Bill Clinton impeachment shows abandoned by U.S. TV networks 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z As she tells it, she was hot, with no fewer than 23 Vogue magazine covers to her credit, riveting film roles and a long-term, lucrative modeling contract with Lancôme. Down on the Farm With Isabella Rossellini 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Played with soft, confiding intensity by Zuzanna Szadkowski, she speaks her series of monologues directly to the audience, and is a riveting storyteller. ‘Events’ Review: There’s Kool-Aid in the Water Cooler 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z I don’t know much about civil engineering, but I find the neo-Gothic structure itself riveting. I love the Brooklyn Bridge. Walk across it and you will, too. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Much of the food at Del Mar relies on those and other quietly riveting seasonings. Review | Del Mar is already one of D.C.’s best dining indulgences 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In both roles, the choreographer shows himself to be a riveting performer and a colorful mime of much nuance. ‘The Hard Nut’ Review: A Refreshed Christmas Classic 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z This compilation includes a riveting rendition of the Ballade No. 2, whose gentle opening section explodes with dazzling force into the turbulent second part. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z The relevance of this riveting book is clear enough. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “They got that one take with this one long, slow movement in the camera. And it was just riveting. I was in tears the whole time,” he says. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “Face Off” is “Top Chef” for special-effects makeup, and it is riveting. What You Should Watch This Thanksgiving Weekend 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The mogul’s riveting new autobiography, “They Call Me Supermensch,” certainly touches on these musical adventures. Shep Gordon managed Alice Cooper, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Blondie, and Luther Vandross and then he wrote a book 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Obviously, that’s nowhere near the passionate degree of viewership of the 1973 Watergate hearings, which our elders still talk about as if it was the most riveting thing they ever watched. Perspective | Is there a right way to watch the impeachment hearings? Yes, just let it wash over you. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z But without a more riveting linchpin to anchor the narrative, “Beneath a Ruthless Sun” grows as sprawling as the conspiracy it depicts. A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The third is absolutely riveting, a subtle and engaging double portrait that touches on complicated matters of faith, ambition and moral responsibility. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The trumpeter Sam Jones created a riveting dialogue between a nasal, slightly neurotic muted voice and one that was warm and full-bodied. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s formally fascinating — the 14 dancers sometimes subdivide into five, six or seven sections, with different movements — and it’s dramatically riveting. Dance Review: An Evening Revisits Mark Morris Hits (Along With a Few of Chopin?s) 2010-09-26T22:13:00Z As someone in my Twitter feed observed minutes after the announcement, that debate in the Galactic Senate, or whatever it's called, is going to be so, so riveting now! George Lucas' pathetic 3-D "Star Wars" re-release 2010-09-29T22:01:00Z They created riveting — and dare I say, watchable — water cooler TV that legitimately mattered. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Of late, though, an extraordinary new talent convergence is riveting the contemporary American stage. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z It's still the most extraordinary, riveting drama on TV. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z A documentary about Sisyphean persistence in the face of institutional indifference, “Downstream to Kinshasa” is riveting in these boat scenes. ‘Downstream to Kinshasa’ Review: Sisyphean Persistence 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z In this riveting tale, Kim Stanley Robinson deftly explores his characters’ internal experiences. Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The actress and Morganthaler spoke to Salon about motherhood and making the riveting drama, “The 11th Hour.” Kim Basinger on her “11th Hour” role: “I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Like the work of Ken Price, plainly one of Nagle's heroes, the traditional ceramic cup is remade into something riveting and strange. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Utterly riveting, it's both an archive of obsession and the story of changing Chinese society. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z But more important, wine is being extolled as absolutely essential to our daily diet on the Almeida stage, where a riveting production of Euripides’ “Bakkhai” is hypnotizing packed houses. Ben Brantley on London Theater, Where Characters Drink to Dull the Pain of Life 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Here it is: the kind of smart, authentic story that both men and women will find riveting. Ten books to read in June 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Holliday's riveting work builds on that foundation and to some extent other historical predecessors. 'All the Flowers' turns blooms in LACMA artworks into a photogram bouquet of blue 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z They would return to the South Pacific and film what even today is riveting footage of cannibalistic and headhunting cultures, including their capture by the Big Namba tribe of Malekula Island in the New Hebrides. Frugal Traveler: In Kansas, Museums, Fried Chicken and, Yes, ‘Oz’ 2013-08-07T18:58:00Z Other comics weighed in, but none have produced a show with as much unsettling urgency as Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette,” a riveting New York debut at SoHo Playhouse that announces a major new voice. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Chances are that in this awkward yet riveting moment, you witnessed a viola solo, a phenomenon that is rare in chamber music, often fleeting and even physically taxing. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Taylor is over the top in her big, confessional scene with Eddie Fisher, but still riveting to watch, the way she works the highs and lows of it. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z In a hushed moment of this riveting recording, the Novice is consoled by subdued strings, a forlorn solo saxophone and the pitying voices of the sailors. Daniel Harding Brings the Opera ?Billy Budd? to Life 2010-04-30T18:39:00Z Yet, when La Curva works on its own terms, it is a joyous, witty collision of sound and image, made riveting by Galván himself. Israel Galván – review 2013-03-26T18:11:27Z Street food this riveting calls for a festive conclusion. Bindaas review: A hot spot for Indian snacks, from the team behind Rasika 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z This is a canny, compact portrait of teenage insensitivity, all the more riveting for its biting dialogue and funny performances. ‘Tahara’ Review: Hierarchy at a Hebrew-School Funeral 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Their music was the frame for the two dancers, whose harmony, in character and movement, achieved a riveting wholeness. Dance Review: Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2014-05-04T19:26:22Z “Eye in the Sky” features a riveting final screen performance from Alan Rickman, as a military officer pondering a drone strike. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z To watch him is riveting, but to hear him tell his story was, for me at least, even better. Stage Fright: Stuart Shugg of the Trisha Brown Dance Company 2013-01-24T20:52:30Z Gifted French comic Jean Dujardin claimed the best actor award for his role in the festival's most critically adored film, "The Actor," a riveting fable about a silent film star struggling to transition to talkies. US director Malick sidesteps Cannes fest spotlight 2011-05-23T11:13:09Z He is immensely appealing, always true; his work is riveting. Casting directors eye Margulies, Sagal for Emmys 2010-06-14T03:07:00Z By film’s end, conversations that had grown so tedious on the internet had been reborn as riveting, hilarious, tragic. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Chamber Orchestra offers a riveting performance of 'I Will Not Remain Silent' Jeffrey Kahane leaves L.A. Chamber Orchestra as master musician and mensch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z She may have found her ideal creative role as the spitfire character on the uproarious, toxic and riveting VH1 reality show “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta.” The Week Ahead: Sept. 9 — 15 2012-09-09T07:00:07Z The new film by George Miller is visually riveting and technologically stunning. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He relished extremes, with hyperbolic readings of the scores that you could say reflect a lack of trust or taste — but that you could also say are riveting from start to finish. Review: The War in Ukraine Looms Over an Orchestra’s Debut 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Lusciously photographed, with riveting star performances, it's the only dramatic film to premiere at Sundance this year and move on to Cannes. Cannes this film festival be saved? 2010-05-12T18:12:00Z Watching the company dance these works is a riveting experience — both for the connections between Balanchinian style and their own training, and for the differences. A Taste of Russian Dance in London 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Expect the musicians to do some chanting and singing, and play other instruments now and then, along with their riveting drumming. Classical Music & Opera Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Within days of its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last month, Stanton had seen “The Rescue,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s riveting non-fiction account of the underwater ordeal, five times. In ‘The Rescue’ a perilous underwater mission in focus 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “I had to pause for a second. I looked at her. She looked at me. It was riveting. I could not say anything but ‘gratitude.’ Why the Biggest Ovation at the Tonys Luncheon Was for a Waiter 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z On the journey, the older man tells riveting stories about Crazy Horse and his pushback against encroaching white settlers. Three children’s and young adult books we love, December edition 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This makes for a riveting story, one from which I learned hundreds of interesting things. “Boom Town”: Is Oklahoma City the “Great Minor City” of America? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z At 69, she is back and again riveting. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z But I found it riveting to watch and fascinating to think about afterwards. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z Rossum’s ability to fuse pride and pain in one character was riveting. Comfort Viewing: Why I Still Love ‘Shameless’ 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The tour that followed made for riveting theater. Analyzing the White Stripes' iconic break up 2011-02-03T19:08:35Z The documentary is a riveting piece of work. Review: 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' Shows a Superstar at Her Most Vulnerable 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The more abject the songs, like “Ghost in This House,” the more riveting she was. Music Review: Bluegrass Archetypes, With Gentle Voices of Ardor and Melancholy 2011-08-04T00:21:11Z His findings make for a riveting, if ultimately dismaying, read, underscoring the profound inequities built into our education system. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z But that artistic choice doesn’t negate all that “Selma” gets right — most of which has less to do with strict adherence to the facts than with stirring images, riveting drama and authentic, deep emotion. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The sneaky thing about this riveting re-enactment, though, is that in watching it, we citizens are on trial, too. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z But what made the performance riveting was his stark evocation of the character’s loneliness and pain. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z |
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