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Film Review: “Hamnet” — Not to Be

November 24, 2025
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In Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” the Bard is a bore.

Film Review: Low-Budget Films Were Alive and Well at The Year’s New York Film Festival

November 23, 2025
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Three independent films got a bounce out of the New York Film Festival and could be coming to you soon.

Film Review: “Peter Hujar’s Day” — Carpe Diem

November 21, 2025
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Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.

Television Review: “The Seduction” — HBO’s French Aristocrats Behave Badly, But Beautifully

November 21, 2025
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“The Seduction” is visually stunning but, even though it is the magnificently clothed French aristocracy, it all comes down to unremarkable people behaving badly.

Book Review: Stephen Rebello’s “Criss-Cross”: A Vital Text for Decoding Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train”

November 19, 2025
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There’s no question that the author of “Criss-Cross” approaches “Strangers on a Train” from a gay-centric viewpoint.

Book Review: “Pre-Code Essentials” — When Moviemakers Played the Game of Evade-The-Censor

November 18, 2025
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Film fans who love the style and spirit of early-thirties Hollywood will have to control themselves from drooling happily all over this fabulously written, photo-filled volume.

Film Review: “Jay Kelly”, When Hollywood Mocks Itself — and Misses

November 18, 2025
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 By Sarah Osman Jay Kelly is a shallow attack on shallowness. Jay Kelly, directed by Noah Baumbach. Screening at Coolidge Corner Theater, AMC Theaters, Landmark Kendall Square Cinema. Who are you when you’re always playing other people? And what happens when, even as “yourself,” you feel you are still playing a character? That is the…

Film Review: Troubled “Dreams”

November 17, 2025
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This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson’s sublime 2011 novella.

Film Review: “Sentimental Value” — The Art of Family Strife

November 15, 2025
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Director Joachim Trier is a masterful arbiter of storytelling conceits and tones: by turns subtle, ironic, melodramatic, cold, and, often, heartbreaking.

DocTalk: Wicked Queer Festival — Make Your Body Talk

November 14, 2025
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The word made flesh at WQ: Docs

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