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Film Review: “Shin Kamen Rider,” “Shin Ultraman,” and Hideaki Anno’s Philosophical Superheroes

June 26, 2023
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As The Flash crashes at the box office and audiences grow tired of multiverse sagas, creative mastermind Hideaki Anno has delivered two badly needed breaths of fresh air to a genre suffocating under the weight of its own cultural stagnancy.

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Film Retrospective: “Early Kiarostami” — One of Cinema’s Great Humanist Auteurs

September 2, 2022
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Abbas Kiarostami was the most important filmmaker to come out of the New Iranian Cinema movement, which spawned works that became staples in film festivals worldwide from the late ’80s on.

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Film Review: MFA’s French Film Festival — A Congenial “Easy Way Out”

July 23, 2015
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The star of The Easy Way Out is its splendidly quick pacing, which gives it more of the feel of an American film than one would expect.

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Film Review: “Kate Plays Christine”

April 29, 2016
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Actress Kate Lyn Sheil travels to Sarasota to star in a biopic where she will be filmed re-enacting TV broadcaster Christine Chubbuck’s suicide.

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Book Review: “Pizza Girl” — Savor Every Bite

June 17, 2020
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In her novel Pizza Girl, Jean Kyoung Frazier has given us an exhilarating spin on a long line of road-rebel mothers.

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Book Review: “Epic Annette” — What is Heroism?

March 10, 2023
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Surely the selfless subject of Anne Weber’s Epic Annette qualifies beyond doubt as a true heroine of the twentieth century?

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Book Review: Mario Vargas Llosa’s “Harsh Times” — A Menagerie of Monsters Great and Petty

November 22, 2021
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Above and beyond Mario Vargas Llosa’s political outlook, his latest novel proves that he remains at heart a master storyteller.

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Film Review: Powerful Testimony from Mexico — “I Am No Longer Here” and “Identifying Features”

January 30, 2021
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What do these young Mexican filmmakers want? For us to bear witness.

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Children’s Book Review: “Antiracist Baby” — Bold, But Flawed

July 2, 2020
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To the extent that Antiracist Baby helps to define and explain antiracism succinctly, it may be useful for older kids and grown-ups.

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Film Review: Frederick Wiseman’s “City Hall” — A Kinder, Gentler Government?

October 30, 2020
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City Hall is a quiet, unsentimental celebration of civility in its many forms.

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