Gerald Peary

Film Review: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place, Waiting-for-the-Vaccine Edition — Stir-Crazy 13

December 20, 2020
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Some great old films to watch while you count the days for your anti-COVID injection!

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Film Review: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Jews Coddled in Big Sky Country

August 12, 2020
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This is a film for another moment in time, an imaginary if not necessarily utopian moment when being Jewish is less roiled and bedeviled from within and without.

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Film Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2019

December 23, 2019
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Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year.

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Film Feature: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Not Your Typical Gefilte Fish Out of Water Story

November 3, 2019
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The turf war for the bodies and souls of Montana’s Jews makes for an engaging inter-tribal drama.

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Film Review: “Love, Antosha” — A Poignant Tribute to Actor Anton Yelchin

August 27, 2019
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This tender documentary makes an airtight case that cinema has lost a very special person.

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Film Review: Report from the 2019 Provincetown Film Festival

June 18, 2019
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The P-Town Fest was the site of several first-rate documentaries.

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Film Review: Signs of Hope for American Indies At SXSW

March 23, 2019
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I saw a handful of fiction films which were well directed, capably acted, and offered meaningful stories.

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Film Feature: Best Movies of 2018 — With a Few Disappointments

December 28, 2018
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Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year. .

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Film Reviews: Boston Women’s Film Festival

September 27, 2018
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All of Shirkers demonstrates the wonderfulness of making cinema. I Am Not a Witch dramatizes the mystery and solidarity of accused witches.

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Film Review: “Momma Mia! Here We Go Again” — Momma Mia!! 2!!

August 12, 2018
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I made a pledge last week to compromise my movie going, and in a silly, humiliating way.

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