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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2021 (93rd Academy Awards) review

Sun, Apr 25, 2021
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The brilliantly unsettling “Two Distant Strangers” is not only the most important of the nominees but one of the movies of the year, of any length. Its surprises are more brutal than mere plot twists.

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documentaries for understanding how we got President Trump, and for ensuring we never get him or his like again

Thu, Mar 04, 2021
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A free first peek at zeitgeisty film roundups to come…

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Irresistible movie review: are money and politics irretrievably entwined?

Sun, Feb 21, 2021
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This zingy satire is so perfectly, beautifully Jon Stewart: big and brash, raging with fury at the state of American politics but also underlain with hope that it might be changed for the better.

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2018 Webby Award winners (which I help pick)

Wed, Apr 25, 2018
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A brief rundown of some of the film- and TV-related winners…

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Weiner documentary review: the unchecked narcissism of politics

Thu, Jul 07, 2016
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Hugely watchable cautionary tale of Shakespearean proportions about 21st-century politics. Beautifully, nastily perfect in its ironies and twists.

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Vacation movie review: stay home

Fri, Aug 21, 2015
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All homophobic, xenophobic, scatological grossout, with some rape and pedophilia “jokes” for flavor. How did this happen?

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from Facebook: I can haz hope? re Jon Stewart

Sat, Aug 08, 2015
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Rosewater movie review (London Film Festival)

Fri, Nov 14, 2014
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Jon Stewart’s first film is passionate and principled, as I expected, but also hopeful, almost serene, and even gently amusing, which I did not.

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movies I can’t wait to see at the 58th BFI London Film Festival

Thu, Sep 04, 2014
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LFF is a veritable orgy of cinema, and I love it. It’s exhausting, but I love it.

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female gazing at: Jon Stewart

Wed, Jul 02, 2014
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Cuz smart and funny is always hot. But Stewart is pretty much just plain hot-hot, too.

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