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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Film Review: “Jackass Forever” – Bad Taste — Our Miracle Elixir

February 11, 2022
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Jackass Forever is incredibly stupid, totally irresponsible, completely juvenile, and it made me feel alive in my body for the first time in weeks.

Film Reviews: Two Views from Ukraine at Sundance – Kids and Chaos

February 8, 2022
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With the eyes of the world on Ukraine right now, two films at Sundance came from that country, or what used to be that country.

Film Review: “The Pink Cloud” — Love During Lockdown

February 6, 2022
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The Pink Cloud is a fascinating watch by sheer virtue of its accidental prescience.

Film Review: “Ronnie’s” — The Story of a World-Famous London Jazz Club

February 6, 2022
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Mel Brooks called Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club “a little nest of happiness. All our recent wounds are healed there.”

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