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Duplicity *** 1/2 The latest entry in the double-crossing cons-in-love sweepstakes opens perfectly. An altercation between two corporate ti...

UMPHREY’S McGEE Mantis Sci Fidelty 1117 Everybody wants to jump on the Grateful Dead “jam band” wagon, but the term is losing coherence. It ...

Wendy and Lucy ** For a film whose tag line is “On the long road, friendship is everything,” there’s precious little friendship on offer in...

David Mallett is a lot like Maine, his home and muse—a force that can astonish you with a hard-edged beauty. Call it sentiment without senti...

SA DINGDING Alive Wrase Records Looking for something really different? Alive may not be the best pop album of last year, but it’s got to be...

A short story: I need what should be a minor medical procedure, except that I have an HMO and I live in Massachusetts. The details aren’t im...

The classroom—it’s a place we all know intimately from our own school days, but how little most of us see of it once we graduate. The new F...