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Clooney makes conspiracy movie of the year
Michael Clayton
Warner Bros. Pictures; Review; Showtimes
Oh, the David Edelstein quotes we could plaster on this movie’s poster: George Clooney, playing a lawyer tasked with covering up scandals, “is as good as he has ever been”! Tilda Swinton, chief counsel of a corporation charged with knowingly selling a cancer-causing weed killer, is “a fascinating face of evil”! And the climax—well, the climax is “smashingly cathartic”! We threw in the exclamation points because from the sound of everything else Edelstein says, this is the conspiracy movie of the year … exclamation point.
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You can still get in—to everything
'The New Yorker' Festival
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Yes, everything sold out—but this year, they held 10 percent of tickets for door sales. Start with the expert Iraq panel at 7:30 tonight (or Junot Díaz and Annie Proulx) and then cab it to George Saunders and Jonathan Safran Foer. Catch Ian McEwan Saturday morning, and stick around for Seymour Hersh and alarming Iran scenarios at one. For evening music, see Fiona Apple in Brooklyn (Yo La Tengo play after). Take Sunday easy with Calvin Trillin’s brunchtime food tour. Dessert: the unfunny David Denby's discussion with the funny Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen.
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Various locations
Tickets at the Metropolitan Pavilion October 5–7
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More weekend picks
Ticket alert: Dreaming of a Clay Aiken Christmas.
Trespass—legally!—at the N.Y. Open House.
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Celebrity Autobiography at the Zipper Factory
The brutal celeb-on-celeb-satire comedy-sensation returns. Want tickets?
Enter now!
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Opera singer blows the roof off
Lucia di Lammermoor
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This production has its good points and its bad points. They’re both represented by Natalie Dessay, who plays Lucia. Justin Davidson found her acting overly giddy, but her singing—well, come to the show and wait for this: “In the crucial mad scene, the orchestra practically abandons her, making the voice sound fragile and alone in that big, thick silence. Dessay, undaunted, turned in a vocal performance of lucidly plotted insanity: silvery, graceful, and extravagant.”
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Metropolitan Opera
Through March 13 $15–$275
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More weekend picks
Lute solo! Boston Early Music Fest hits town.
Janet Malcolm connects Gertrude Stein with brunch.
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America’s Most Smartest Model
Premieres this Sunday at 9/8c on VH1.
See what happens when 14 models live together and compete in
elimination-style challenges that not only test their looks - but their
intelligence as well. Meet the models and watch a sneak peek of the show at
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