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Film Review: “Priscilla” — Tender, Treacherous Youth

November 6, 2023
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The film beautifully captures a dreamy-nightmare aesthetic, suggesting that Priscilla’s life with Elvis was turbulent roller coaster of romantic highs and materialistic hollowness.

Film Review: “The Holdovers” — Learning Their Lessons

November 4, 2023
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Director Alexander Payne and star Paul Giamatti excel at this kind of character-driven comedy/drama.

Film Review: “Where the Devil Roams” — Dark Carny Horror

November 3, 2023
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The Adams Family may be a low budget regional filmmaking collective, but it continues to raise the bar on horror art cinema.

Dispatch from The 2023 Warsaw Film Festival

November 3, 2023
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A rundown of some of the strange and beautiful movies screened in Warsaw. Let’s hope they are scheduled for a digital and theatrical release in the United States.

Doc Talk: Fascism Then and Now — At the Arlington International Film Festival

November 1, 2023
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A pair of documentaries featured in this year’s Arlington International Film Festival take a cold look at the death cult of fascism — past, present, and to come.

Film Preview: The Boston Jewish Film Festival is Back and All Over Town

October 30, 2023
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Under the guidance of Artistic Director Lisa Gossels, this year’s fest has, in her words, “something for everyone.”

Doc Talk: Jewish Values Celebrated in This Year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival

October 30, 2023
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In a time of outrage and grief, a trio of documentaries at the BJFF serve as a reminder of the traditional Jewish values of compassion and inclusion, reaffirming the power of activism, art, and simple acts of human kindness.

New York Film Festival: “Pictures of Ghosts” — Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Phantom Cinema

October 25, 2023
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This thoughtful documentary watches cinemas vanish from a Brazilian city.

Film Review: “Killers of the Flower Moon” — Lethal Snake Oil Salesmen

October 23, 2023
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“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an exercise in kaleidoscopic, cubist storytelling that is, among other things, an epic on the art of the grift.

Television Review: “The Devil on Trial” — A Demon for a Client?

October 21, 2023
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Despite a slow first half, “The Devil on Trial” picks up speed and suggests that the truth can be more infuriating than fiction.

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