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Film Commentary: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — The Most Serene Movie in Years

May 7, 2022
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This movie reminds us that — if there is any meaning to life at all — it’s what you bring to it, not what it brings to you.

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Film Review: “Polar Bear” — A Mother’s Tale of Survival in the Arctic

May 2, 2022
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The protagonist of this engrossing, and troubling, story must draw on all her accumulated knowledge in order to cope with degradations to her habitat caused by what we, the viewers, know as global warming/climate change.

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Film Review: “The Survivor” – (Living in the Past, Looking to the Future)

April 28, 2022
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Ben Foster shines in Barry Levinson’s grim tale of love, loss, and hope.

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Film Review: “The Wobblies” — A Moving Story of a Largely Forgotten American Class Conflict

April 28, 2022
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After premiering at the New York Film Festival in 1979, this powerful documentary about one of the most dramatic periods in American labor history has been newly restored.

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Film Review: “Resurrection” at the Independent Film Festival Boston

April 27, 2022
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What lifts Resurrection above the standard victim-becomes-avenger routine is a preposterous — in a wonderfully sick way — claim that gives the movie a welcome touch of giallo unpredictability.

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Television Review: “The Survivor” — What Price Survival?

April 26, 2022
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The Survivor examines what happens to someone who made the decision to survive in Auschwitz — no matter how.

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Film Review: “The Northman” — You-Are-There with the Viking Beserkers, Nuttiness and Magic Galore

April 25, 2022
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The Northman is grounded in a manically precise capture of the Nordic world of the 9th century AD, but refracted through the lens of a whacked-out visionary in a spew of eye-popping images.

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Film Review: “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” — A Genuine Comeback for Nicolas Cage

April 25, 2022
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Considering his loopy career and also his bumpy off-screen life, Nicolas Cage seems neither ashamed nor apologetic about how it’s all gone down.

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At the Full Frame Festival: “Chernobyl Before and After” — and Two Takes on Disability

April 22, 2022
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Be prepared to be shocked. But also be prepared for a horror story that is far worse than what was reported at the time — but not as bad as it could have been.

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Film Review: “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” – (Nicolas Cage Bares All, But Keeps Most of His Clothes On)

April 22, 2022
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Oddball and entertaining comedy-drama-thriller is a Nic Cage fanboy’s dream

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