Peter Keough

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.

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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.

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Film Review: “Green Border” — Zone of Disinterest

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

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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.

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Film Review: Hiroshima Non Amour

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

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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.

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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.

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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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Doc Talk: Movies on Loss and Recovery at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 11, 2024
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A trio of films in which certainty and security have been disrupted and people must make the best of what remains.

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Doc Talk: Four Documentaries Defy Doomsday at the Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

May 16, 2024
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What have you done to prevent the end of the world? A quartet of documentaries in this year’s Global World Film Festival offer different answers to this nagging question.

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