Gerald Peary

Film Review: “Who Takes Away the Sins: Witnesses to Clergy Abuse” — Anatomy of a Cover-Up

October 1, 2013
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It’s heartening to see a major Catholic institution like Boston College get behind a documentary that, without mercy, attacks the Boston Diocese for its sinful coverup of priest abuse of children.

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Film Review: “Blue Caprice” — A Scary Evocation of Killing Field Senselessness

September 27, 2013
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Director-writer Alexandre Moors, a Parisian living in New York City, builds a credible narrative story of the killer team in the months before their death spree.

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Film Review: “Far From Vietnam” — A Remarkable Anti-War Film

September 25, 2013
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Far From Vietnam dared say what no American documentary, even the most radical, would insinuate for fear of being accused of treason: in Vietnam, the Americans were the new Germans.

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Film Review: “When Comedy Went to School” Flunks Out

September 19, 2013
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Oy gevalt! What a disappointment!

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Film Review: Hitting Up Against “The Wall”

September 18, 2013
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I guess that’s the point. We all need to slow down, go back into nature, appreciate animal life, take long walks in the forest and in the mountains.

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Movie Review: A Surprisingly Intelligent “Afternoon Delight”

September 16, 2013
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We’ve heard all these gripes before, in life, in books, on TV, and in piles of movies. But Kathryn Hahn, is so enthralling and right that Rachel’s alienation, her poor little rich girl suffering, feel harsh and real.

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Film Review: “Terraferma” — From Italy With the Best of Intentions

September 5, 2013
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Terraferma is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.

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Book Review: “Rainer on Film” — Indispensable Movie Criticism

September 2, 2013
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With a good critic like Peter Rainer, the opinion itself is the least interesting part of the review. It’s the contextualizing of the opinion. And the choice of words on paper.

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Television Review: “Glickman” — A Rousing Sports Biography

August 26, 2013
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Before he was a broadcaster, Mary Glickman was one heck of an athlete, a youthful hero in New York known as “the Jewish Red Grange.”

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Film Review: “You’re Next!” — A Clever, Assured Shower of Blood

August 24, 2013
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Luis Buñuel would be proud of the scabrous scene in which the Davison clan sit down to supper and the civilized bourgeois meal turns to rot before our eyes.

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