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April 11, 2019

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Film Review: “Beanpole” Sprouts a Beautiful, Mournful Elegy

Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov, 2019) 4 out of 4 stars. The Great Patriotic War, as Russians call World War II, claimed the lives of approximately 26 million Soviet citizens. The nearly 900-day-long siege of Leningrad, in which the Nazis blockaded the city to prevent supplies from entering, caused the death of over 1 million people, alone. […]

Sundance 2020 Review: “Dick Johnson Is Dead” Brings Familial Love to Life

Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson, 2020) 3½ out of 4 stars. Everyone’s parents die, but not everyone would choose to film their parents dying. Kirsten Johnson isn’t everyone. In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2016 documentary Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson is turning the camera away from the world at large and toward an entirely […]

Film Review: “VFW” Provides Some Gory Fun but Falters Under the Weight of Bad Decisions by Its Characters and Creators

VFW (Joe Begos, 2020) 2 out of 4 stars. An overly violent, bloody, and stylized action thriller, Director Joe Begos’ VFW features a group of old war veterans that take on brain-dead drug addicts in an all-out slobber knocker … unfortunately with little story and even less sense. A bit too bloody and gory even for […]

Film Review: “Citizen K“ Masterfully Profiles a Russian Oligarch’s Rise and Fall

Citizen K (Alex Gibney, 2019) 4 out of 4 stars. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taking over an ailing system in dire need of reform. Few imagined that the changes he would implement – under the twin headings of “Glasnost” (“openness”) and “Perestroika” (“restructuring”) – would […]

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