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Film Review: “Served Like a Girl” — A Unique Look at Women in Combat

September 6, 2017
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Served Like a Girl offers an intense and gratifying look at the first wave of American women in combat.

Film Review: “Night of the Vampire” Marathon — A Bloody Good Time

September 2, 2017
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The HFA marathon is a wonderful blend of arty and popular films that span the decades and feature bloodsuckers.

Film Review: “In Transit” — Albert Maysles’s Marvelous Final Testament

August 31, 2017
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Everyone who loves documentary, who cherishes the Maysles brothers’ legacy, should rush to the Brattle Theatre to see In Transit.

Arts Appreciation — Jerry Lewis, A Comic Actor of Glorious Contradictions

August 21, 2017
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We’re losing Lewis’s generation of Depression-bred, Borscht Belt-weaned entertainers with their un-ironic neediness for laughs and their canny way of getting them.

Film Review: “The Trip to Spain” — Out of Decadence, Epiphany

August 18, 2017
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We want to see how looming middle age is treating these two friends, whose intersecting careers and self-images shape their relationship.

Commentary — “Detroit” & Critical Red Herrings

August 10, 2017
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I’m not going to see Detroit and that’s because I’m sure it will have the virtues of Kathryn Bigelow’s other films and the corresponding flaws.

Film Review: “I Called Him Morgan” — A Superb Jazz Documentary

August 8, 2017
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I Called Him Morgan has been lauded as one of the best films of the year, and rightfully so.

Film Review: “Lost in Paris” — Earthy Yet Surreal Fantasy

August 6, 2017
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Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s vision tries to elevate the everyday to a realm of magic by way of the absurd.

Film Review: “Detroit” — A Brickbat of a Film

August 5, 2017
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Detroit leaves the ethical questions it raises open.

Film Review: “Landline” — A Compelling Comedy-With-Drama

July 28, 2017
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Landline is a textured, often funny and subtly acted portrait of a family experiencing rumblings set off by sexual affairs.

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