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Film Review: “Bones and All” – “I’ll Eat You Whole, I Love You So”

November 30, 2022
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With Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino solidifies his place as a filmmaking maverick able to bend genre conventions in ways that express his own painfully beautiful artistic vision.

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Film Review: “The Menu” — Killer Cuisine

November 28, 2022
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The Menu serves up a ghoulish and madly entertaining two hours of prime cinema.

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Film Review: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” — A World Where the Outrageous Feels Real

November 26, 2022
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With gorgeous, vivid stop-motion animation overseen by co-director Mark Gustafson, this inspired collaborative effort carves its own lane among the many adaptations of the oft-told story.

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Film Review: “She Said” — Listening to Women

November 25, 2022
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She Said’s straightforward narrative avoids self-indulgent fanfare and invites viewers to appreciate journalism as a hunt for the truth that, in this case, inspired a cultural earthquake when the #MeToo movement rose up in its wake.

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Film Review: “The People We Hate at the Wedding” — Middling Marital Mayhem

November 23, 2022
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The People We Hate at the Wedding is far from one of the best entries in the comic wedding canon.

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Film Review: “The Soccer Football Movie” — A Full-On Weirdo Camp Fest

November 21, 2022
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Sometimes, cartoons should just be aimed at kids. The Soccer Football Movie has no pretensions: this is a glorious goof fest that draws on the hallowed tradition of slapstick comedy.

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Arts Remembrance: Lucia Small, 1963-2022

November 21, 2022
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This is a profound loss to cinema and to Boston’s filmmaking community in particular, a close-knit group in which Lucia Small enjoyed many friendships and engaged in fruitful collaborations.

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Film Review: “Retrograde” — America’s Tragic Withdrawal from Afghanistan

November 17, 2022
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Now, more than a year after Kabul fell, Afghanistan, where a conflict media-branded as “America’s longest war” waged for twenty years, barely makes the news.

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Film Review: Wastelands then and now — “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Utama”

November 12, 2022
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Two recent film releases, both submitted by their countries for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, offer variations on no-man’s-land.

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Film Review: “Something in the Dirt” — Grains of Truth

November 11, 2022
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In addition to being a clever paranormal thriller, Something in the Dirt is a brilliant commentary on our burgeoning world of content creation.

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