Betsy Sherman

Film Review: Alex Cox’s “Dead Souls” Recasts Gogol as a Spaghetti Western Fever Dream

July 28, 2026
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The punk auteur’s late-career swan song is ragged, witty, and politically sharpened, though not always as cohesive as its ambitions.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part Four

April 26, 2026
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Part four of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part Three

April 25, 2026
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Part three of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part Two

April 24, 2026
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Part two of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Fest Review: IFFBoston Shorts — Part One

April 23, 2026
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Part one of a run-down of live-action narrative shorts. As usual for the IFFBoston, the quality is high, with intriguing subject matter and technical polish.

Film Review: “Queen Kelly” Restored — Erich Von Stroheim’s Mad Genius Resurrected

February 26, 2026
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Cinema lovers with a taste for the exotic and a tolerance for narrative loose ends should take advantage of the re-emergence, via 4k digital makeover, of “Queen Kelly”.

Book Review: “Pre-Code Essentials” — When Moviemakers Played the Game of Evade-The-Censor

November 18, 2025
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Film fans who love the style and spirit of early-thirties Hollywood will have to control themselves from drooling happily all over this fabulously written, photo-filled volume.

Film Series Review: Columbia 101 — The Rarities, A Tasty Cinematic Smorgasbord

November 4, 2025
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A preview of a few of the obscure gems and curios in this huzzah to Columbia Pictures.

Film Review: “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” — Maternal Fury Fuels a Ferocious Dark Comedy

October 17, 2025
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“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: is a powerful addition to the recent female-created examinations of the ways women, and particularly mothers, can be unsupported or outright dismissed by contemporary society.

Arts Remembrance: Lenny Bruce — On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth

October 13, 2025
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Raise a glass to Lenny Bruce, champion for—and martyr to—Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech. October 13, 2025, is the hundredth anniversary of his birth in Mineola, New York.

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