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Film Review: “The Executioner” — Death Be Not Pedestrian

January 30, 2017
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Director Luis García Berlanga entertainingly but ruthlessly lampoons the cruelties and absurdities of Spanish life under dictatorship.

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Film Review: “Hidden Figures” — Finger Painting by the Numbers

January 27, 2017
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All of these stories are powerful… if only they were treated with dramatic complexity.

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Film Review: Woody Harrelson’s Movie — A So-So Nocturnal Odyssey

January 27, 2017
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There was a good energy to the depiction of movie-Woody’s nocturnal odyssey, and a few funny bits.

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Film Review: “Dead of Winter” — Horror and the Art of Living Deliciously

January 24, 2017
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One of the lessons of the Dead of Winter series at the Brattle Theatre:”The occult is one of many tickets to the revolution.”

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Film Review: “Paterson” — A Very Ordinary Visionary

January 23, 2017
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Paterson is a movie about how ordinary it may be to see the world in a grain of sand.

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Film Review: “Silence” — Martin Scorsese’s Mute Spiritual Odyssey

January 22, 2017
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Did Martin Scorsese want this film about religious faith to reverberate so faintly, to make its point through such awkward stillness?

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Film Review: “Patriots Day” — So Close to Home

January 20, 2017
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Patriots Day provides an intimate view of a heart-stopping week.

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Arts Remembrance: William Peter Blatty — Cultivating the Horror Cinema Landscape

January 16, 2017
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William Peter Blatty may have created a comparatively small body of work, but he played a major role in the evolution of American horror.

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Film Review: “20th Century Women” — The Ties That Bind

January 11, 2017
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Search for who you are and stick to it, Mike Mills advises in his films, though it may not always be easy.

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Film Review: “Lion” — Lost, Found, and Lost

January 9, 2017
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Lion’s heart is an exhilarating sequence where Saroo painstakingly discovers his origins.

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