Peter Keough

Film Review: “Misericordia” — Empathy Rules

March 23, 2025
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Director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film is a darkly hilarious, polymorphously perverse paean to compassion.

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Film Review: “Black Bag” — High Fidelity

March 17, 2025
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Two cheers for monogamy in Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag”

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Doc Talk: Beauty and Truth at the National Center for Jewish Film’s Film Festival

March 14, 2025
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Two essential documentaries look at the legacies of Leni Riefenstahl and Elie Wiesel.

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Doc Talk: “Chaos” Reigns

March 8, 2025
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Errol Morris takes another look at Helter Skelter and the Charles Manson murders.

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Doc Talk: The Boston Baltic Film Festival — Studies in Brilliance

February 25, 2025
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A hero of his times: celebrating Latvian pioneering documentarian Juris Podnieks.

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Film Reviews: DocTalk — Legal Briefs at the 2025 Oscars

February 20, 2025
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The 2025 Oscar nominated documentary shorts indict the justice system.

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Book Review: Surviving Stalin in “No Country For Love”

February 16, 2025
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In this compulsively readable novel, a Ukrainian Jewish woman does what she needs to survive in the nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic Stalin-era Soviet Union.

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Doc Talk: Stranger Than (Science) Fiction at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

February 11, 2025
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A pair of documentaries challenge the fantasies in the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

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Film Review: “I’m Still Here” — They’re Still Here

February 2, 2025
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Fascism is faced down in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece.

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Film Reviews: The Boston Festival of Films from Iran — Veiled Threats

January 17, 2025
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The power of cinema persists at the Boston Festival of Films from Iran.

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