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Rosewater

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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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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London photo: everyone wants to see Rosewater at LFF

Tue, Oct 14, 2014
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I wasn’t sure what sort of a draw Jon Stewart would be at the London Film Festival, but there was a huge mob at the press screening of his film.

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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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Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart’s summer vacation is better than yours

Mon, Jun 24, 2013
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I haven’t seen John Oliver’s Daily Show yet, but I just watched Jon Stewart’s guest appearance on the Egyptian equivalent of The Daily Show on the Web.

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