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Film Review: “Caught Stealing” — A Superior Crime Thriller

August 29, 2025
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Viewers would be wise not to search for a deeper meaning in “Caught Stealing” — this is an example of entertaining commercial filmmaking from one of our best directors.

Film Preview: “Cat Fancy” at the Brattle Theatre Will Leave You Purring for More

August 29, 2025
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An engagingly put together cinematic celebration of the cat.

Film Review: Killing Time with Talk — Olivier Assayas’s “Suspended Time”

August 22, 2025
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If life among these four characters risks being so monotonous over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, just imagine what it must have been like to endure months of lockdown before a vaccine became available.

Film Review: “Highest 2 Lowest” Is Somewhere in Between

August 17, 2025
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The times are out of joint for Spike Lee.

Film Series Review: “Scary Movies XII” — What Frightens Us Now?

August 14, 2025
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Grief and generational trauma have become the horror movie villains of our time, taking the spot once occupied by masked killers.

Film Review: “Weapons” — No Child Left Behind

August 9, 2025
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What sets “Weapons” apart from other films utilizing a puzzle-box approach is  Zach Cregger’s command of tone, a byproduct of honing his skills in sketch comedy.

Film Review: “Monk in Pieces” — An Education of the (Genius) Girlchild

August 9, 2025
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What it cost Meredith Monk to be uncompromising! In the early days of her experimentations, the dismissive, often patronizing reviews included lines like her music “made my cats bite each other.”

Film Review: Resistance Is Feudal in “Harvest”

August 7, 2025
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This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.

Film Review: “Made in New Jersey” — A Fabulous Trip in the Cinematic Way-Back Machine

August 4, 2025
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This journey in the way-back machine contains many delights, some staged and some as part of the photographic record of America from 100-plus years ago.

Doc Talk: “Architecton” — Ozymandias Revisited

August 2, 2025
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Deconstructing construction in “Architecton.”

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