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Film Review: “Make Me Famous” – In Search of Edward Brezinski

March 5, 2024
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“Make Me Famous” is not the portrait of a superstar like Jean-Michel Basquiat or Keith Haring; this protagonist is representative of the everyday angst, the struggle, the not-making-it, and the work that was produced regardless.

Doc Talk: Smoke and Mirrors — Urgency and Gravitas at the Boston Baltic Film Festival

March 1, 2024
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These films might not often directly address the looming menace of Russia, but the tragic history shared by the countries shadows even their moments of happiness, levity, and hope.

At the Berlin International Film Festival: Alonso Ruizpalacios’s “La Cocina” and Nicolas Philibert’s “At Averroès & Rosa Parks”

February 28, 2024
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A Mexican director sets a British play in a Times Square restaurant and patients talk to their psychiatrists in Paris.

Film Review: “Four Daughters” — Young Womanhood and Trauma, Experienced and Inherited

February 28, 2024
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“Four Daughters” calls attention to the complex and admittedly slippery nature of nonfiction filmmaking.

Film Review: “Perfect Days” — Plumbing the Depths

February 24, 2024
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In his latest feature, filmmaker Wim Wenders extols the simple life.

Film Review: “Dune: Part Two” — A Stunning Achievement

February 22, 2024
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Despite its flaws, “Dune: Part Two” is a grand, sprawling, and deeply intelligent science-fiction epic.

Film Review: “Drive-Away Dolls” — Bum Trip

February 21, 2024
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“Drive-Away Dolls” is the worst Coen brother movie ever made.

Film Review: “Lisa Frankenstein” — Chivalry Is Dead

February 19, 2024
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“Lisa Frankenstein” is the first delightful surprise of 2024, destined for weird girl slumber party greatness in a few years time.

Film Review: “Io Capitano” — When You Wish Upon a Star?

February 19, 2024
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The plight of refugees is given a fairy-tale treatment in “Io Capitano.”

Film Review: “The Taste of Things” – Gallic Feasts for the Eyes

February 15, 2024
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A 100-year-old novel provides the basis for some sumptuous moviegoing.

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