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Film Review: Hiroshima Non Amour

July 18, 2024
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There’s no Lubitsch in this “Touch”.

Film Review: “The Devil’s Bath” — The Horror of Humanity

July 1, 2024
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“The Devil’s Bath” demands your full engagement; along with its primordial intensity, a great deal of subtle intelligence lies beneath its visceral surface.

Film Review: “MaXXXine” – The Fame Monster

June 29, 2024
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It really bums me out to tell you that “MaXXXine,” the much awaited final film in the “X” trilogy, is an underwhelming ending to an otherwise interesting nu-slasher series.

Film Review: “Kinds of Kindness” – Yorgos Is as Good as Mine

June 27, 2024
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The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos is a confusing mishmash of forced weirdness.

Doc Talk: New Spins on Plan B in “Flipside”

June 25, 2024
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A profound piece of director Chris Wilcha’s life was being disrespected and threatened with extinction. He had to do something. He had to make a documentary about it.

Film Reviews: Provincetown Film Festival 2024 — Where’s the Box Office?

June 25, 2024
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At this year’s festival: the Best Film of 2024, “We Strangers,” and a slew of gossipy docs on show business celebrities.

Film Reviews: “Gasoline Rainbow” and “Happy Campers” — Superior Summer Flicks Tinged with Loss

June 24, 2024
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Two films about the glories of summer are infused with bittersweet reminders of the reality of social class in America.

Film Review: “Janet Planet” — The Fertile Silence of Awareness

June 24, 2024
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As usual, Annie Baker is more interested in how viewers gather information, gleaned from bits of dialogue, than in wrapping up a neat plot or delivering a message.

Film Review: “Ghostlight” — Stages of Grief

June 23, 2024
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A movie about an amateur theater company’s production of a classic play taps into the universal truth of irremediable and ineluctable loss. And there isn’t a dry eye in the house.

Film Reviews: Provincetown International Film Festival 2024 — The Significance of Meeting Face-to-Face

June 22, 2024
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Four films at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival shared the theme of face-to-face communication, exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of encounters unmediated by screens and phones.

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