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Film Festival Review: Dispatch From the New York Film Festival, 2025

September 26, 2025
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It’s hard to imagine that Hollywood suits would get behind a movie focused on a corrupt political regime, even one that’s now history.

Film Review: “One Battle After Another” — One Car Chase After Another

September 26, 2025
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Director P.T. Anderson’s latest puts up a fight, but it is for a lost cause.

Film Review: A Portrait of Fakir Musafar — The Search for Corporeal Transcendence

September 25, 2025
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“A Body To Live In” is not trying to be a conventional biopic — this is an atmospheric reminiscence of an underground movement.

Doc Talk: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — One of the Strongholds for the First Amendment

September 24, 2025
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As other outlets for reporting and investigating the truth are persecuted or succumb to pressure, the role of independent documentary filmmaking grows more urgent and vital.

Film Review: “Plainclothes” and the Surveillance of Desire

September 24, 2025
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Despite its abrasive style, “Plainclothes” leaves no doubt about what is going to happen or what is meant to be its takeaway message.

Film Festival Reviews: The Toronto International Film Festival – Storks and Arctic Drama

September 22, 2025
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Two outstanding films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — “The Tale of Silyan” and “Wrong Husband”

Film Review: “HIM” — A Carpet Bombing of the Optic Nerve

September 19, 2025
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“HIM” works incredibly well as a Grotesque, and by that I mean the film takes the incipient, creepy ideologies of pro football and blows them up to terrifying and absurd proportions.

Film Review: “The Long Walk” — A Vicious But Timely Parable

September 13, 2025
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Audiences prefer that political messages be buried under heaps of horror, but this film may be extreme enough to alert some viewers to look beneath the bloody spectacle.

Film Review: “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” – A Crowning Achievement

September 12, 2025
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The concluding chapter in the Downton Abbey saga is a classy and entertaining multileveled melodrama that features excellent production values and a script with a light touch.

Film Review: “Spinal Tap II” — Aging Rockers, Fading Laughs

September 11, 2025
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This is another visit to the world of Spinal Tap. I had some good laughs, and that might be enough.

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