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Film Review: “Democracy Through the Looking Glass” — Take a Good Look

July 9, 2017
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The interviewees sound warnings about how we have self-sorted, online and in the real world, into echo-chamber communities of like-minded people.

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Film Review: “The Little Hours” — What the Donkey Sees

July 3, 2017
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A romp in and around a centuries-old Italian convent, acting out a 14th-century story using contemporary American idiom and attitude.

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Film Review: “The Beguiled” — Sofia Coppola’s Bewitching, Beleaguered Remake

July 2, 2017
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The Beguiled is a beautifully-shot, atmospheric thriller with a daring take on sexual autonomy and dynamics.

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Film Commentary: Death Knell for American Independent Cinema?

June 23, 2017
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The well has evaporated for much of new American independent cinema.

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Film Feature: Report from the 2017 Provincetown Film Festival

June 22, 2017
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One of the Provincetown Film Festival’s highlights: a documentary on the life of best-selling author Armistead Maupin.

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Film Review: 2017 Provincetown Film Festival — A Summing Up

June 21, 2017
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Two of the best feature documentaries this year at the Provincetown Film Festival were gay-themed.

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Film Review: The Sublimely Refined Touch of Ernst Lubitsch

June 15, 2017
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In Trouble in Paradise, Lubitsch makes us feel complicit in the best of ways; he makes us feel clever.

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Film Review: Satire As it Should Be — “Tickling Giants”

June 13, 2017
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If you want to see what courageous political satire really looks like, see Sara Taksler’s engaging new documentary about Bassem Youssef.

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Film Review: “It Comes at Night” — A Prepper’s Handbook of Hope and Dread

June 12, 2017
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This is a fine exercise in arthouse horror — don’t expect elaborate monsters, an orchestral score, or CGI effects.

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Film Interview: A Talk with Writer, Director, and Actor Zoe Lister-Jones

June 8, 2017
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While Band Aid feels authentic in its realistic depiction of contemporary relationships, its humor is consistently disarming.

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