Betsy Sherman

Film Review: “The Salesman” — The Limits of Empathy

February 9, 2017
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Director Asghar Farhadi’s most stringent judgments generally fall upon members of his own sophisticated, worldly cohort.

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Film Reviews: Boston Jewish Film Festival –Two Looks at Jewish-American Comedy

November 12, 2016
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Reviews of a trio of films at the Boston Jewish Film Festival.

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Film Review: Director Rouben Mamoulian, Reconsidered. Starting with “Applause”

August 10, 2016
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Mamoulian’s Applause is an opportunity to experience the first leg of the director’s ascent on his Hollywood roller coaster.

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Book Review: “Digging Up Mother” — Bizarro Family Values

June 15, 2016
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Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.

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Film Preview: Silent Film Comedian Raymond Griffith — Sophisticated Slapstick

May 12, 2016
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A rare opportunity to see — on the big screen — a film starring Boston-born silent comedian Raymond Griffith, a master of the debonair pratfall.

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Film Preview: Death and Desire at the Circus — “Varieté” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

April 26, 2016
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Varieté will be the tenth score composed by a Sheldon Mirowitz class and played by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra.

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Movie Review: “Million Dollar Arm” — A Pleasing Baseball Movie Where Fact and Fable Meet

May 17, 2014
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Given its its male-weepy genre, the “inspirational sports movie based on a true story,” Million Dollar Arm is surprisingly enjoyable.

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Theater Review: Colin Quinn’s Sharp and Funny “Unconstitutional”

November 29, 2013
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Stand-up comic Colin Quinn has been giving a lot of thought to the Founding Fathers, their vision for the new nation and, well, how that turned out. The result is his sharp and funny one-man show.

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Film Review: “Only God Forgives” — A Pseudo-Greek Tragedy

July 19, 2013
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Director Refn’s craftsmanship isn’t in doubt here, just whether this deadening story was worth all the effort.

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Film Review: “Caché” — Nowhere To Hide

January 11, 2006
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Michael Haneke’s sharp and timely thriller explores how the shadows of a man’s past can come back to haunt him with a vengeance.

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