Peter Keough

Film Review: Kids Know the Darnedest Things in “Good One”

August 17, 2024
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A buffer between two bruised and only fitfully reflective egos, Sam finds herself in an awkward position, one which becomes increasingly untenable as lines of trust are crossed and power dynamics exploited.

Doc Talk: Advertisements for Himself — “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer”

August 15, 2024
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A testament to the power of benignant narcissism.

Film Review: The Art of Adolescent Angst on Display in “Didi”

August 4, 2024
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Like Truffaut, Spielberg, Gerwig, and other renowned auteurs, director Sean Wang has made a deeply felt, funny film that cogently draws on his experiences as a volatile and angsty adolescent.

Film Review: Tongues Are Untied in “Kneecap”

July 30, 2024
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A frenetic, funny, foul-mouthed, and sometimes facile testament to the fact that language matters.

Film Review: “Green Border” — Zone of Disinterest

July 24, 2024
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“Green Border” is artful, anguished agitprop.

Film Review: “Crumb Catcher” — Labor Saving Device?

July 19, 2024
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Themes of class, race, and artistic appropriation reminiscent of “American Fiction” lurk beneath “Crumb Catcher”‘s generic conventions.

Film Review: Hiroshima Non Amour

July 18, 2024
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There’s no Lubitsch in this “Touch”.

Doc Talk: New Spins on Plan B in “Flipside”

June 25, 2024
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A profound piece of director Chris Wilcha’s life was being disrespected and threatened with extinction. He had to do something. He had to make a documentary about it.

Film Review: “Ghostlight” — Stages of Grief

June 23, 2024
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A movie about an amateur theater company’s production of a classic play taps into the universal truth of irremediable and ineluctable loss. And there isn’t a dry eye in the house.

Doc Talk: From Revolution to De-evolution at the Nantucket Film Festival

June 17, 2024
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The documentaries “War Game” and “Devo” take up the topic of insurrection, political and cultural.

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