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What sets “Weapons” apart from other films utilizing a puzzle-box approach is Zach Cregger’s command of tone, a byproduct of honing his skills in sketch comedy.
What it cost Meredith Monk to be uncompromising! In the early days of her experimentations, the dismissive, often patronizing reviews included lines like her music “made my cats bite each other.”
This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.
The humanity Mariska Hargitay brings to her quest makes this film about her mother, Jayne Mansfield, much more than a hagiographic profile of a movie star: it is a deeply personal story of reconciliation, love, and family.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s return to form might be explained by his looking backward: the director has chosen to grapple with the fact that many of the pessimistic prophecies of his earlier films have come true.
There’s bad news and good news at the Woods Hole Film Festival.
My reviewing this movie is like Proust reviewing a tea-dipped madeleine, but I think even old Marcel could spot when bits of the sponge cake were stale or too soggy.
This piquantly enjoyable docufiction emphasizes how movie spectatorship encourages empathy and understanding.
Film Review: “Made in New Jersey” — A Fabulous Trip in the Cinematic Way-Back Machine
This journey in the way-back machine contains many delights, some staged and some as part of the photographic record of America from 100-plus years ago.
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