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Film Review: A Powerful “Black Mass” — We have our Whitey Bulger Movie

September 19, 2015
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When they watch Black Mass what are Bostonians seeing? A strange blend of reality and mythology.

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Dance Review: Choreographer Paul Taylor’s Extraordinary Domain — on Film

September 16, 2015
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A fascinating documentary in which you get both a Paul Taylor dance and the making of the dance.

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Film Review: The 2015 Montreal World Film Festival — Step By Step

September 12, 2015
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It’s always been fun, the best festival in North America to educate oneself with movies from foreign lands.

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Film Review: “Call Me Lucky” — An Extraordinary Portrait of Satirist Barry Crimmins

August 21, 2015
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A labor of love that’s more than merely that, Call Me Lucky is one of the few great movies to come out so far this year.

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Film Review: “Ricki and the Flash” — A Damp Squib

August 15, 2015
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Ricki and the Flash is a film that is bad enough to hurt a lot of reputations.

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Film Review: “The End of the Tour” — David Foster Wallace Done Right

August 13, 2015
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The End of the Tour don’t remain a hall of mirrors but become a bridge that conveys its subject’s honest, painful humanity.

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Film Review: “Dark Places” — This is No “Gone Girl”

August 8, 2015
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Dark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.

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Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” — Some Existential Pleasures

August 6, 2015
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This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.

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Fuse Film Review: “The Stanford Prison Experiment” — It’s a Crime

August 3, 2015
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Even if you manage to overlook the objectionable ethics of the film, The Stanford Prison Experiment simply doesn’t work as a gripping drama.

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Film Review: “Jimmy’s Hall” — A Vibrant Look at Irish Working Class Culture

July 30, 2015
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The entertaining and inspiring Jimmy’s Hall is more playful than some of director Ken Loach’s previous, more radical-leaning efforts.

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