★★★★★ During her eight years leading Florence and the Machine, Florence Welch has become an expert at turning pain into beauty. Her latest record with the band titled “How Big, How Blue,...

★★★☆☆ There’s no shortage of talent in Washington, so any artists hoping to distinguish themselves among the many music hopefuls here are in for a challenge. However that hasn’t deterred...

★★★★★ A fading star from the once-famous show “Viking Quest,” a tequila tycoon weed-guzzler, a pizza-rolling Sbarro's manager turned suit-wearing movie producer, a short-fused workaholic...

Last Tuesday, the 80s new wave group Spandau Ballet rocked the 9:30 Club with a night full of slow jams and funky hits from yesteryear. These pioneers of the New Romantic movement, now in their 50s,...

★★★★☆ In Bertrand Bonello’s “Saint Laurent,” to be released May 8, the formulaic biopic is decomposed and reconstructed to parallel the French designer’s innovative fashion....

★★★★☆ In the past several years, the cinematic world has been overrun by movie after movie of superhero-villain standoffs and intricate computer-generated imagery. With just two or three companies...

★★★★☆ Olivier Assayas’ “Clouds of Sils Maria” starts on a train, with the camera and audience moving side to side with the shaking actors on the jerky train. Here, celebrated stage and...

★★☆☆☆ Despite earning points for creative form and dedication to theme, the new horror film “Unfriended,” ends up feeling like overkill. By the end of the movie, one feels less than sympathetic...

★★★★☆ Tugging heartstrings is an art that Tony Rauch has greatly mastered. In his fourth collection of short stories to be released later this month, Rauch manages to seamlessly combine heartbreak...