“A nifty overview as to why everything is terrible, it’s a brilliantly assembled, blood-boiling examination of the past 100 years in wealth inequality that, viewed during our current disaster, feels like the autopsy of a broken system. The film has a knack for making tricky economic concepts accessible to all, even dummies like me who got a D in algebra.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/30/2020
”Yauch is touchingly missed by his bandmates and his irreverent energy is sorely missed by the film. It’s sweet, well-meaning and lacking any of the oddball invention we’ve come to expect from their endeavors. This is a pleasant chat with a couple of the nicest dads in your neighborhood, but I kept waiting for someone to bust out the Brass Monkey.” – North Shore Movies, 04/30/2020
“Shanley’s night sky needs to appear larger than life to us because Joe’s seeing it as if for the very first time, the same way Hertzfeldt’s Bill looks at those dust mites or his brilliant bathmats. These are things I try to remember while I’m out taking my walks and trying to beat back my own brain clouds, especially on such a beautiful day.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/24/2020
“That’s right, someone named Tyler Rake actually kills a guy with a rake and nobody involved with the movie seems to find this remotely amusing. You can even feel the pause where a great ‘80s one-liner would belong, and you know Hemsworth would’ve delivered the shit out of it. But action heroes aren’t assigned one-liners anymore. They get tragic backstories.” – North Shore Movies, 04/24/2020
“Envisioning Ned Kelly’s army of outlaws as Iggy and the Stooges is indeed an unexpected angle, and Kurzel’s visual graffiti grows increasingly, interestingly rococo as the atrocities pile up. As one might expect from a film about murderous men wearing dresses, the whole thing simmers in a thick stew of malevolent homoeroticism.” – North Shore Movies, 04/24/2020
“Since launching in 2003 the festival has presented more than 1,650 films that would take 75 straight days to watch. In lieu of such an undertaking, I’ve selected a few favorite titles from over the years, so that through streaming services we might be able to create our own little IFFBoston at home. At least we have the movies to hold us over for now.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/22/2020
“Dirty jokes have a way of knocking down doors for students, and for this particular class clown, the Porter’s speech about alcohol provoking desire while taking away performance was key to my understanding that the plays of William Shakespeare were never meant to be musty objects of study, but rather broad, bawdy entertainments for mass audiences.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/17/2020
“An algorithm will never understand you the way an attentive clerk can, and the most touching parts of the film for me were scenes spent with the staff, so passionate about passing along discoveries and sharing sounds they love. One employee admits he probably would have grown up to become ‘a very unhappy lawyer’ if it hadn’t been for Other Music.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/16/2020
“A sprawling, multigenerational saga spanning several decades across different continents, Tigertail is also only 91 minutes long, so most of the time it feels like a trailer for itself. There’s no shortage of interesting scenarios and situations here, yet none of them are allowed to dramatically develop before we’ve packed up and moved on to another time period.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/10/2020
“So much of America’s idea of itself comes from the mythology of the open road. Ever the transcendentalist, Lynch sees the interstate as a sprawling symbol of humanity’s interconnectedness, a place to reach out and renew. The more embittered Eastwood is focused on highways that don’t lead anywhere, places where we can run but cannot hide.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/09/2020
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