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A nother Julian Schnabel biopic, In the Hand of Dante, confers grandeur upon one of his contemporaries as a way of explaining Schnabel’s own ambitions. This time it’s Nick Tos ...

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In the early 2000s, writer Nick Tosches (Oscar Isaac) is hired by a Mafia don to verify and steal an original copy of ‘The Divine Comedy’ by Dante Alighieri. In 14th-century Florence, Dante (also ...

In the Hand of Dante is streaming on Netflix now. Star-studded yet defiantly dull, Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante crosscuts a turn-of-the-century mob saga with a Late Middle Ages tale of how ...

In the Hand of Dante (now on Netflix) is, in the parlance of the times, a “big swing.” So big, it’s either going to be a grand slam or an epic whiff, depending on your tolerance for indulgence, ...

Not even a double dose of Oscar Isaac can rescue this fanciful, oversauced tale of stolen art and spiritual questioning. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

In the Hand of Dante” sprang from the mind of late writer Nick Tosches. His 2002 book is the basis for director Julian Schnabel’s star-studded Netflix movie. I have not read Tosches’s book, so I can’t ...

At a time when so much cinema feels carefully calibrated and thoroughly familiar, there is something refreshing about a film willing to embrace risk on this scale. In The Hand of Dante is messy, ...

Deep fulfilling synths, trudging rhythms and precise vocal chops and samples, the album defines what they do best, and now, 13 years since Tomorrow’s Harvest, Boards of Canada are back with the dark ...

The late 1990s were an especially exciting period for electronic music—house and techno, birthed in Chicago and Detroit, respectively, had gone global; pop-friendly dance-music acts such as the ...