“The world of David Mamet is divided between hustlers and marks. You’re either playing an angle or you’re being played. Henry Johnson could be the playwright’s bluntest expression of these themes yet, one of those late period works in which artists of a certain age stop smuggling their ideas underneath the drama and just come out and say what they mean.” – North Shore Movies, 05/08/2025
”If your mom doesn’t have the stomach for the Brattle’s annual Mother’s Day screening of Psycho, you’ll have plenty of options on the other side of the square. The Harvard Film Archive’s Mother’s Day Mini-Marathon features seven 35mm prints of big screen classics examining maternal love in all its complex and sometimes maddening dimensions.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 05/08/2025
”Calling it the best Marvel movie in years isn’t saying much, but it’s something. Thunderbolts* reminds us that the reason those early MCU adventures caught on was not because of special effects or intergalactic lore, but because they were workplace comedies about characters we enjoyed spending time with. Modest charms are nonetheless charming.” – North Shore Movies, 05/05/2025
”Palaud exhibits no interest whatsoever in her subject’s accomplishments, skipping immediately ahead to the drudgery of her heroin addiction. The indictments of boorish behavior by men in the film industry are indeed apt, but what’s ironic is that by refusing to see Schneider as an artist, the movie is guilty of some of the same sins as the director it tries to demonize.” – North Shore Movies, 05/05/2025
SPLICED PERSONALITY 