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Film Review: “Barbarian” — Scarebnb

September 13, 2022
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As with many horror and action films (and probably much of real life), the build-up is better than the eventual resolution/climax.

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Film Review: “Nomadland” — “Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost…”

January 18, 2021
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Fern may be house-less, but she’s not homeless — there’s a difference, she explains; her home will be the road, and the road is full of life, love, challenges, and surprises, all there for the taking.

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Film Review: “Blue Bayou” — “I’m Going Back Someday…”

September 17, 2021
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Blue Bayou’s story deserves to be told and heard. But rather than focus slowly and intently on its central crisis, the script kneads in a dizzying array of additional threads and sidelines.

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Film Review: “Censor” — “The Horror, the Horror…”

February 2, 2021
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Censor explores thought-provoking questions about the strange relationships between films, society, fantasy, and reality — and individual identity — in an increasingly mediated and violent world.

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Film Review: Wait for It… “Hold Your Fire”

September 30, 2022
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At a time when the nation is taking stock of the failures of our history of urban policing and looking for some new approaches, the lessons of Hold Your Fire are needed more urgently than ever.

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Film Review: Interrogating Guilt — Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter”

September 9, 2021
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The Card Counter collapses under the weight of director Paul Schrader’s guilt complex.

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Theater Review: Finding Hope in Isolation — “Dream Boston,” Episodes 1-5 @ The Huntington Theatre

November 25, 2020
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In this innovative series, the Huntington Theatre Company has charged 11 local playwrights to imagine a future vision of Boston, post-pandemic, when “we can once again meet and connect in our city.”

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Film Review: “Encounter” — A Solid Genre-Spanner

December 17, 2021
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This “father and sons on the lam” film adeptly blends genres (in this case: sci-fi plus thriller). It is well assembled, emotionally compelling, and beautifully shot.

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Film Review: “Amsterdam” — Fast Friends, Broken Bodies, Strong Spirits

October 4, 2022
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As its plot unfolds, Amsterdam treats us to a strangely magical form of visual and verbal storytelling, both humorous and hard-edged, by turns sweet and shocking, with richly curated frames and bright spirited dialogue.

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Film Review: “Herself” — “Safe as Houses”

January 14, 2021
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While the film is determinedly called “Herself “(“you got this, girl…”), the subtitle could equally have been “It Takes a Village…”

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