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Ezra Haber Glenn

Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2021

Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ed Symkus, Ezra Haber Glenn, Gerald Peary, Nicole Veneto, Peg Aloi, Sarah Osman, Tim Jackson

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

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.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Aditya Geddada, Encounter, Ezra Haber Glenn, Lucian-River Chauhan, Riz Ahmed

Film Review: “Belfast’ — Black and White and Rosy All Over

Belfast is overly sentimental and drenched if not drowned in nostalgia, but it’s also very sweet, uplifting, well-paced, beautifully shot, and competently assembled.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Belfast, Ezra Haber Glenn, Kenneth Branagh

Film Review: “Terra Femme” — Only Connect…

Collectively, Terra Femme’s footage provides a window — or really, a suite of windows — that allows us to view a bygone world through the eyes of silent female gazers.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Courtney Stephens, Ezra Haber Glenn, Terra Femme

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

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.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Blue Bayou, Ezra Haber Glenn, Justin Chon

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

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

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Ezra Haber Glenn, Oscar Isaac, Paul Schrader, The Card Counter

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part Two)

1971 gave us bursts of magnificent cinematic iconoclasm that had no future — culturally or politically.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Clockwork Orange, David Stewart, Ezra Haber Glenn, Nicole Veneto, Peg Aloi, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Last Picture Show, The Nightcomers

Film Review: “Lapsis” — A Satirical Sci-Fi Send-Up of the Gig Economy

This new satirical sci-fi fable is perfect for home streaming to channel (or perhaps exacerbate) your gnawing anxieties at a world slipping into anti-human automation and free-market desperation.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ezra Haber Glenn, Lapsis, Noah Hutton

Film Review: Being and Time in “Truth or Consequences”

This is a thoughtful, surprisingly moving, and extremely ambitious film, one that employs an innovative style and some unconventional pacing to explore an unusually complex philosophical and emotional landscape.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bill-Frisell, Ezra Haber Glenn, Hannah Jayanti, Meteoric, Truth or Consequences

Film Review: Wither the People of Magnitogorsk — “Kombinat”

Without ignoring the terrible-beautiful magnetism of the industrial imagery we love to hate and hate to love, the camera is gradually, gently, drawn across the river and away from the workday, to spend time with these very real humans who serve the machines.

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: documentary, Ezra Haber Glenn, Gabriel Tejedor, Kombinat, Magnitogorsk

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