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April 2016

April 09, 2016
This double feature, of an autistic boy reaching adulthood and of a school shooting’s aftermath,...
April 08, 2016
This profile of Steven Wise, attorney for nonhuman civil rights, is a celebration of progress...
April 07, 2016
Nancy Buirski avoids flashiness, but successfully reveals the narrative threads across the career of Sidney...

March 2016

March 28, 2016
This Oscar-nominated story of a shaman and two scientists in the Colombian rain forest is...
March 21, 2016
The second film in a potential “Cloverfield” franchise is decently suspenseful, if not gripping, sci-fi...
March 14, 2016
Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest film is his funniest since “Borat,” though it lacks his earlier...
March 07, 2016
This year’s Foreign Language Oscar winner signals an audacious debut for director Laszlo Nemes and...
March 01, 2016
A jarringly dissonant tone drowns out an excellent performance by Maggie Smith.

February 2016

February 22, 2016
By portraying the New England witch panic of the 1600s as if it were grounded...
February 21, 2016
Please check out my response, as well as those by the other panelists!
February 15, 2016
Familiar themes and tics flow pleasingly through the Coen Brothers’ latest movie.
February 08, 2016
"Anomalisa" won’t be the best film I see this year. But it might be the...

January 2016

January 25, 2016
Nominated for the Foreign Language Oscar, this story of five rural sisters facing arranged marriages...
January 18, 2016
In this all-around superb film, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara excel as two women in...
January 11, 2016
Alejandro G. Innaritu, the winner of last year’s Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, has...
January 07, 2016
With "Je Suis Charlie," a father and son filmmaker team have crafted a worthy documentary...
January 04, 2016
Quentin Tarantino is stuck in a thematic rut, even if his eighth film is as...

December 2015

December 28, 2015
Plus, three indispensable books for any freethinker’s bookshelf
December 20, 2015
“The Force Awakens” is a fun diversion, but it pales beside the original trilogy.
December 14, 2015
Now available for home viewing, Alex Gibney’s documentary shows us the deep flaws of the...
December 07, 2015
These two enjoyable films have much more in common than you might initially think.

November 2015

November 22, 2015
With its raunchy surface, sweet center, and an irreverence that will piss off the War...
November 15, 2015
This documentary of intersecting moral journeys around a hot-button topic should appeal to both religious...
November 09, 2015
Despite its occasional “been there, done that” feel, this is still the most satisfying Bond...

October 2015

October 31, 2015
When it comes to this abducted mother and child survival tale, the movie is very...
October 24, 2015
This brisk, charmingly readable biography of the man Darwin called “the greatest scientific traveller who...
October 18, 2015
A good not great Spielberg film, this Cold War tale is hamstrung by pacing issues,...
October 12, 2015
Now available for home viewing, this autobiographical documentary of a gay Muslim’s hajj is eye-opening,...
October 04, 2015
It may lack the philosophical power of last year’s “Interstellar,” but “The Martian” is still...
October 03, 2015
A recent HBO miniseries and a Japanese film classic have plenty to say about being...
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