Peter Keough

Film Review: “The Samurai and the Prisoner” — The Quality of Mercy is Strained

August 6, 2026
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Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa trades spectacle for suspense in a period thriller about honor, hostage, and haiku.

Film Review: “Wild Inside” — The Story of the Owl That Stopped New York

August 3, 2026
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In her wry, incisive documentary,  filmmaker Penny Lane turns an owl’s rise and fall into an unusually moving inquiry into animal sentience, urban spectacle, and the cost of liberation.

Doc Talk: “Remake” — A Filmmaker Ponders a Career and a Life

July 30, 2026
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Documentarian Ross McElwee’s most profound film folds four decades of self-portraiture into a threnody for his son—and a meditation on memory, guilt, and cinema’s solace.

Doc Talk: Two Films about Time, Diminishment, and Redemption at the Woods Hole Film Festival

July 22, 2026
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Director Robb Moss’s latest revisits countercultural lives in later years, while “Amazing Live Sea Monkeys” probes a bizarre empire shadowed by exploitation and extremism.

Film Review: “The Odyssey” — Twilight of the Gods

July 15, 2026
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Director Christopher Nolan’s ambitious and challenging epic is an ode to the end of civilization.

Film Review: “Romeria” — An Intimate “Odyssey”

July 2, 2026
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Carla Simón’s dreamlike family drama merges mother and daughter, past and present, in a moving search for identity.

Film Review: “Mare’s Nest” — Don DeLillo Gets Played

June 25, 2026
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This ambitious adaptation finds its power in images, not in the novelist’s dense and elusive language.

Film Review: Life Comes at You Fast in “Jinsei”

June 16, 2026
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Ryuya Suzuki’s DIY animated epic fuses pop-idol satire, existential dread, and apocalyptic spectacle into a singular coming-of-age saga.

Doc Talk: Long Strange Trips at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 10, 2026
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Portraits of a legendary critic and modern Deadheads highlight what’s gained—and lost—when culture resists critique.

Film Review: “The Last One for the Road” — Booze Crews

June 4, 2026
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This soused picaresque is heading for a DUI.

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