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Through its two-hour run time, “I Swear” maintains a remarkable tonal balance that elevates it from an entertaining film to a truly great one. It approaches Tourette syndrome with searing intimacy, never shying away from the awful consequences that those who live with it endure, and yet it also recognizes the humor inherent in its manifestations. The film masterfully presents its subject’s tics?— shouting “half-price heroin!” in front of police officers, “I’m a pedo!” during a job interview or “fuck the Queen!” during an audience with Elizabeth II herself — as simultaneously horrifying and outrageously funny. The movie’s command of its emotional register also allows it to be unexpectedly poignant as it tells an extremely personal true story that’s both heartbreaking and inspiring.
(05/01/26 6:00am)
On April 24, Hood Museum of Art hosted its quarterly “Art in Focus” tour, an interactive program designed for people with dementia-related illnesses and their caregivers in collaboration with Dartmouth Health’s Aging Resource Center.
(05/01/26 6:05am)
Season 4 of the adult animated superhero series “Invincible” delivers high stakes and an even higher emotional payoff as the conflict between the heroes and the Viltrumites — the space-faring race of Superman analogues — comes to a head. Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) embraces a more cynical approach to heroism after his destructive skirmish with the Viltrumite Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) left him with the resolve to stop holding back from killing his opponents. Mark adopted his blue and black suit during season 3 and keeps it for much of this season, reflecting a darker period of his life.
(04/27/26 6:00am)
Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” begins with a famous maxim: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The dramatic events of each unhappy family often turn into great stories. In “Lázár,” Swiss author Nelio Biedermann builds a novel out of that sense of unhappiness. Biedermann, who grew up middle-class in Zurich, descends from a lineage of Hungarian aristocrats who lost everything when Hungary became a communist regime. He draws on his family’s true stories as inspiration for “Lázár,” which was published in the United States earlier this month.
(04/27/26 6:05am)
The majority of director Antoine Fuqua’s biopic of Michael Jackson, “Michael,” is built from a small set of scenes repeated and slightly reworked to fill out the runtime. Jackson endures abuse or manipulation from his father. Jackson has a conversation in which someone tells him how special or talented he is. Jackson exhibits childlike innocence and/or wonder. Jackson comforts sick children. Jackson has an epiphany that leads to his next great hit. Jackson performs that hit. After the first 20 minutes or so, this cycle essentially becomes the rest of the film. The structure begins to feel almost musical in its looping, rhythmic repetition, cycling through familiar beats with only minor variation. Is it a passable diversion? Sure. Does it justify telling this story as a narrative feature film? Not even a little bit.
(04/24/26 6:05am)
On April 13, Netflix released a documentary titled, “Noah Kahan: Out of Body.” Directed by Nick Sweeney, the film traces Kahan’s rapid rise as a singer-songwriter from posting songs on TikTok to playing two sold-out shows at Fenway Park in 2024 as part of his “Stick Season: We’ll All Be Here Forever” tour. The documentary, which takes place over one-and-a-half years, is both a celebration of success and an honest portrait of an artist struggling to find his place.
(04/24/26 6:05am)
On April 18, the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life hosted “A Celebration of ‘Sinners’” in honor of the one-year anniversary of director Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed film. Instead of hosting a traditional screening, the IBICL, in collaboration with the Hopkins Center for the Arts, presented a multi-part program featuring dance, discussion and music inspired by the film.
(04/20/26 6:00am)
Faculty, alumni, students and members of the Upper Valley community gathered together in Sanborn Library on April 15 to hear readings of Robert Frost poems. While attendees were invited to read their favorite Frost poems, the celebration centered on seventh grade students from Crossroads Academy in Lyme, N.H., each of whom read a poem they had selected.
(04/20/26 6:05am)
A title like “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” invites multiple questions. For one, who is Lee Cronin? Why is his name attached to the film? How, if at all, is this installment related to “The Mummy” starring Tom Cruise, “The Mummy” starring Brendan Fraser or any of the other multitudinous bandage-wrapped, Egyptian-themed entries which bear the name?
(04/17/26 6:00am)
“XO, Kitty” season three picks up right where the show left off: smack in the middle of a prime young adult cocktail of romance, comedy and drama. But while its predecessors walked the line between the three, the newest installation in the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” Netflix spinoff series takes a sharp turn into trope-y dramedy — a choice that destabilizes the show’s tonal balance and ultimately strips it of its charm.
(04/17/26 6:05am)
On April 2, Netflix released “The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson,” a documentary about the life and death of Moriah Wilson ’19, a professional cyclist and Dartmouth alum who was murdered in 2022. The documentary gained immense popularity within the first few days of its release and has since ranked in the top 10 most-watched films on Netflix, according to Matthew Wilson, Moriah Wilson’s brother.
(04/13/26 6:00am)
On April 8, 14 community members attended the Hood Museum of Art’s Hood Highlights Tour inspired by Hank Willis Thomas’s neon sign in the Kaish Gallery. The sign reads, “Remember Me” — two words taken from a note written about a century ago on the back of a postcard with a portrait of an African American man. The postcard was found in an archive, and depicts the man wearing clothes that are a testimony to his wartime experience. Thomas was moved by the found text.
(04/13/26 6:05am)
“The Drama” is the kind of movie that both really does and really doesn’t need to be reviewed. Its impact hinges less on what you know and more on what you don’t, which makes writing about it without spoiling anything feel like a careful balancing act. Much of what makes it work depends on going in blind. What is important for moviegoers to know, though, is that it’s a tense, deeply uncomfortable experience — one that is the complete opposite of its happily-ever-after marketing.
(04/10/26 6:05am)
In March, distinguished fellow Ezzedine Fishere published the English translation of his 2017 Arabic-language novel “Nightfall in Cairo.” Fishere worked with editor Sharidan Russell ’18 on the release, which was published by Commonsense House.
(04/10/26 6:00am)
A Barbie doll with her fingers crossed behind her back. A small truck with a flat tire. These are some of the toy ideas of Alejandro (Julio Torres), a young man who aspires to become the world’s most famous toy designer. To achieve his dream, he must overcome a big obstacle: his precarious immigration status. Born in El Salvador, Alejandro needs visa sponsorship to continue living in New York City, but few companies are willing to hire a foreign-born worker. “Problemista” follows his effort to navigate a complicated immigration system while pursuing his lifelong dream.
(04/06/26 6:10am)
Cloud rap has always been a genre defined by its resistance to definition. Emerging in the late 2000s through trailblazing artists like Main Attrakionz and Lil B, cloud rap introduced a sound that felt hazy and psychedelic, often shaped more by mood than by design. Though frequently tied to the online music platform SoundCloud and the artists who rose through it — such as Yung Lean and Bladee — the “cloud” has never referred to the platform itself. Instead, it is the atmosphere that lingers in the music’s euphoria and detachment: essentially, the perfect high.
(04/06/26 6:00am)
“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” knows exactly what it is. Directed once again by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and produced by Illumination and Nintendo, the sequel had high expectations to meet. Its predecessor, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released in 2023, remains the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time.
(04/06/26 6:05am)
Famously drawn on Dartmouth fraternity life, the raunchy, exaggerated depictions of Greek social scene and over the top humor in 1978 comedy “Animal House” still resonate with today’s college students. Author Jeff Nelligan explores the film’s cross-cultural bridge in his recently released short satirical book, “When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor: Animal House in Western Intellectual Thought,” a faux-academic study of “Animal House,” which was co-written by Dartmouth alumnus Chris Miller ’63. In the book, Nelligan frames the film as a cornerstone of the Western intellectual tradition, comparing it to classical works by authors like Homer and Shakespeare. In doing so, Nelligan playfully applies the language of high cultural theory to a film rooted in college chaos and irreverence.
(04/03/26 6:00am)
In one of the first scenes of the documentary “Assembly,” multidisciplinary artist and co-director Rashaad Newsome prepares to deliver his father’s eulogy. He does not hide his anxiety. Newsome, who is a Black queer person from Louisiana, says he has “never felt truly protected in this country.” With a desire to create spaces of safety and belonging, Newsome decides to transform the Park Avenue Armory, a former military facility in New York City, into a futuristic ballroom house where LGBTQ+ people can thrive.
(04/03/26 6:05am)
“Project Hail Mary” is practically miraculous in how deftly it balances intergalactic stakes and an intimate, character-focused emotional core. Directors Phil Lord ’97 and Chris Miller ’97, best known for their comedies and animated films like “21 Jump Street” and “The Lego Movie,” turn out to be the perfect fit for a blockbuster sci-fi story that treats wonder, comedy and sentiment with equal conviction.
