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Film Review: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Art on Screen in Many Forms

March 3, 2022
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The Berlin international Film Festival has always been an event where films on art, architecture, and design premiere. This year, as always, the selections were a mixed bag.

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Film Review: “The Batman” — The Caped Crusader Battles Fascism

February 28, 2022
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Matt Reeves’ The Batman features villains who lose their shit when faced with an African American politician whose campaign slogan is centered on “Change.”

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Film Reviews: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Diamonds, Drugs, and Sex

February 27, 2022
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Diamonds, drugs, and sex — the stuff of movies.

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Film Review: “Cyrano” — Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty

February 27, 2022
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There is much to recommend in this opulently romantic film.

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Film Review: “Strawberry Mansion” — Strawberry Dreams Forever

February 25, 2022
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Strawberry Mansion‘s biggest asset is that it employs so many different artistic techniques to create a world as wildly inventive as it is heart-achingly sincere.

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Film Commentary: What Disney’s “Encanto” Says About Colombian Realities

February 23, 2022
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In Colombia and Encanto, willful ignorance is the price paid for reassurance.

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Film Reviews: Three Nervy Indies at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

February 20, 2022
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A trio of independent movies draw on sci-fi to explore the nooks and crannies of creativity.

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Film Reviews: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Two Movies about Workers Under Assault

February 19, 2022
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Two stylistically different films in which workers are exploited and empowered.

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Film Review: “Margrete, Queen of the North” — One Matriarch, One Scandinavia

February 14, 2022
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This is an opulent and ambitious historical drama, as attentive to small intimate scenes as it is to grandiose action sequences.

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Film Review: “Munich: The Edge of War” — The Necessity of Resistance

February 13, 2022
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A suspenseful, finely-crafted historical thriller that reminds us that the triumph of evil depends on good men doing nothing.

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