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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Film Review: Jean Renoir’s “The Rules of the Game” — Top o’ the canon, Ma!

June 8, 2017
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The Complete Jean Renoir — a definitive retrospective of films by the greatest of all directors.

Film Feature: Summer of Love Series — Retro Balm for Turbulent Times

June 5, 2017
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Summer of Love’s line-up contains some of that iconic year’s most indelible works of cinema.

Film Review: “Casting JonBenet” — Of Crime and Psychodrama

June 3, 2017
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In this attempt to get at the ‘truth,’ the actors don’t play the roles, the roles play the actors.

Film Review: “The Wedding Plan” — Is Jewish Orthodoxy Really a Woman’s World?

May 28, 2017
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This time that we’re getting a too-sweetened take on Hasidism, and maybe of Jewish Orthodoxy in all of its manifestations.

Film Review: “The Death of Louis XIV” — Spotlight on Mortality

May 22, 2017
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It is not a movie for every taste; in fact, it is as close to watching paint dry as a film can get. I mean that in a good way.

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