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Film Review: “Mustang” — Passion, Caged

January 6, 2016
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Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.

Fuse Feature: The Zeitgeist in Film — 2015

January 5, 2016
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Here’s one more wrap-up of the year in film.

Film Review: Hell is the Nervous Laughter of Tom Noonan — Charlie Kaufman’s Inscrutable “Anomalisa”

January 4, 2016
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Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.

Fuse Film Preview: Graham Greene’s “Words in Motion” at the MFA

January 1, 2016
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In his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.

Fuse Film Commentary: Guilty Displeasures — The Hated 8

January 1, 2016
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Are people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?

Film Reviews: Let’s Get Physical — “Concussion” and “Point Break”

December 27, 2015
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Concussion butts heads with the NFL; Point Break is pointless.

Film Review: “Joy” and “The Danish Girl” — Gratification Limited

December 26, 2015
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The unimportance of being too earnest.

Movie Review: “The Big Short” — Capitalism Gone Wild, Made Entertaining

December 25, 2015
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The Big Short is a deftly sardonic piece of doomsday economic diagnosis that is as entertaining as it is alarming.

Film Review: “The Hateful Eight” — An Exhilarating Homage to B Movies

December 23, 2015
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The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s richly textured love letter to B movies.

Film Commentary: Blink a Bright Red and Green — “Carol’’’s Holiday Charm

December 21, 2015
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A guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).

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