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Film Review: Radu Jude’s “Dracula” — Suck it to Us

November 10, 2025
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Like other Eastern European artists, Radu Jude is at his best channeling his anger through dark comedy.

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Film Review: “Die My Love” — A Film of Disturbing Brilliance

November 7, 2025
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“Die My Love” is a healthy bitch-slap, its shock encouraging young folks to dismiss the bullshit about relationships too many other movies have hawked over the past decade and a half or so.

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Film Series Review: Columbia 101 — The Rarities, A Tasty Cinematic Smorgasbord

November 4, 2025
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A preview of a few of the obscure gems and curios in this huzzah to Columbia Pictures.

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Doc Talk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival 2025 — Festival of Light

November 3, 2025
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The Boston Jewish Film Festival supplies some glimmers of optimism.

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Woodstock Film Festival, Dispatch #2: Wonder, Work, and Whimsy

October 28, 2025
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A quartet of films whose topics range from modern love and protecting animals to family dysfunction and a who-done-it with a vintage doll detective on the case.

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Film Review: “Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc” — Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Girl

October 26, 2025
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Besides Chainsaw Man’s abundant visual pleasures and uncompromising blend of ultra-violence and adolescent sexuality, one of its particular draws is that it’s a cinephile’s anime.

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Film Review: Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” — Creature Comfortless

October 26, 2025
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The monster almost comes alive. 

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Film Review: “Blue Moon” — Hart Broken

October 25, 2025
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Director Richard Linklater gets lyrical in “Blue Moon.”

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Woodstock Film Festival, Dispatch #1: Troublesome Women

October 23, 2025
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A trio of superb films that feature fierce women.

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Film Review: “Bugonia” — A Delightfully Warped Night at the Movies

October 23, 2025
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There’s a profound catharsis in watching “Bugonia,” one that echoes the catharsis articulated by those who attended the ‘No Kings’ protests on the 18th.

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