18 stories by "Neil Giordano"
At a time when Kenneth Branagh busies himself clogging up multiplexes with bombastic Agatha Christie all-star remakes, director/writer Rian Johnson revels in subversion of the genre.
The pos…
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Parasite's powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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An attempt to comment on contemporary masculinity, but without enough mind or matter to make much of an impact.
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A Screenager Star is Born?
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What happens when a dubious scientific experiment yields unexpected results?
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By Neil Giordano Zhang Yimou's return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity " and zithers. Shadow, directed by Zhang Yimou. Screening at Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA. If Chinese m…
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Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the "schizophrenia" of being an Oscar nominee.
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Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
The genius of this film is that no preaching is necessary; it makes its political point in an apolitical way, an art film that is, incidentally, didactic.
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A wide-ranging slate of documentary features on display in this year's Independent Film Festival Boston. Here's a sampling of a few of the standout films coming up.
What starts off as a rollicking entertainment ends with a flourish of profundity.
Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's last film is made up of a series of sometimes resplendent, sometimes disappointing, images.
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Annihilation wants to be big movie about big ideas -- what we get is small celluloid potatoes.
