Peter Keough
Portraits of a legendary critic and modern Deadheads highlight what’s gained—and lost—when culture resists critique.
Radu Jude’s latest begins in Ken Loach–like realism before veering into a savage, cine-literate black comedy about complicity and conscience.
Visually beguiling, “Silent Friend” may probe the mysteries of consciousness, but it has little on its mind.
A stylish but troubling portrait that soft-pedals power, propaganda, and Vladimir Putin.
A brisk, galvanizing portrait of “Democracy Now!”‘s Amy Goodman and the stubborn fight for adversarial journalism.
The spirit of Frederick Wiseman lives on at the IFFBoston.
A retrospective of four films by those two Hungarian artists unfolds as a monochromatic monolith of mud, misery, human folly, and inexorable corruption.
Claude Lanzmann’s haunted pursuit of testimony and Henrietta Szold’s humanitarian legacy illuminate the enduring power of courage and conscience.
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