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Film Review: “The Artist’s Wife” Is a Heartfelt Story and an Engaging Experience

The Artist’s Wife (Tom Dolby, 2020) 3½ out of 4 stars. The Artist’s Wife tells the story of Claire Smythson, the wife of famous and renowned painter Richard Smythson, as she witnesses her husband’s descent into dementia. All the while, she contemplates if it’s too late to create a breakout work of art under her […]

Film Review: Lovely “Bird Island” Showcases a Haven of Gentle Souls

Bird Island (“L’Île aux oiseaux”) (Sergio Da Costa/Maya Kosa, 2019) 3½ out of 4 stars. Though classified as a work of nonfiction, Bird Island (or “L’Île aux oiseaux”), from Swiss directors Sergio Da Costa and Maya Kosa (Rio Corgo), immediately strikes the viewer as anything but that, its scenes seemingly staged and the 4:3 aspect […]

Series Review: “Les sauvages” Offers Strong Mix of Entertainment and Polemic

Les sauvages (Sabri Louatah/Rebecca Zlotowski, 2019) 3 out of 4 stars. The French have long held that their national identity revolves around culture and language, and that the adoption of both, and assimilation to the customs and practices of each, leads to acceptance, no matter one’s place of origin. Though the term “melting pot,” long […]

Film Review: “The Last Laugh” Fails to Execute on a Potentially Interesting Premise

The Last Laugh (Jeremy Berg, 2020) 1½ out of 4 stars. I’ve always been interested in films that combine two unrelated topics/genres into one plot. In fact, an exercise in a screenwriting class that I took in college involved taking the plots of two different films and combining them into one singular idea, in a […]

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