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Review: Clash of the Titans

Divine badness reigns
It takes a lot of movie magic to reduce some 3000 years of mythology to piffle. After watching this farrago produced by state-of-the-art 3-D and CGI, I’m all for the return of the oral tradition.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 02, 2010

Review: Sweetgrass

Triumph of the wool
One of the most enigmatic close-ups I’ve seen on screen this year is of a sheep. It stares into the camera at the beginning of Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s documentary about a round-up of the critters in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, ruminating thoughtfully, as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 30, 2010

Boston film group protests arrest of Iranian director

Power of cinema?
At the Montreal Film Festival last summer, I had the pleasure of interviewing the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was serving as president of the international jury.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 24, 2010

Review: The Sun

The shades close for Emperor Hirohito
No sun is in sight in the beginning of Aleksandr Sokurov’s look at the last days of divinity for Emperor Hirohito.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 23, 2010

Review: Greenberg

A spurious man
Why does she put up with him? Why, for that matter, should anyone in the audience?

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 24, 2010

Review: Chloe

A polymorphously perverse tango of voyeurism
One of the more ambitious genre filmmakers around, Atom Egoyan bravely takes on tawdry tales and tries to subvert them.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 23, 2010

Review: The Mother

The power of maternal love
A girl is found murdered in this latest effort from Korean director Bong Joon-ho, and the police, at a loss, pin the blame on Do-joon (Bin Won), a childlike local with not much going on upstairs, alternately brutalizing and bamboozling him into a confession.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 22, 2010

Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

... Is a drag
In recent screen-adapted crime fiction, detectives are heroes and children are victims. In the trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson, the child victim is the hero.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 22, 2010

Boston Turkish Film Festival 2010

Divine madness rules the ninth annual Turkish Film Festival
In a scene in Çagan Irmak's IN DARKNESS (2009; April 3 at 3 pm), one of several provocative films in this year's Boston Turkish Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts, a woman explains to a TV interviewer that her political party is neither for Shari'a — extremist Islamic rule — nor for right-wing military coups. Well, good luck to her.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 17, 2010

Review: Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Rabbit stew
Tim Burton's hare-brained Alice in Wonderland

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2011

Review: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

Herzog, Lynch, dwarves, and an ostrich
Not so much Werner Herzog's return to his former persnickety, off-the-wall, idiosyncratic feature-film-making self as a reprise of his greatest hits, the overloaded My Son, My Son staggers and sometimes comes to a complete halt.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 09, 2010

Silly season

Spring pimps for summer
Now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 09, 2010

Review: Terribly Happy

Exudes an evil all its own
In Henrik Ruben Genz's thriller, Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren), who's been reassigned for disciplinary reasons, pulls into a squalid hamlet in Denmark's South Jutland region.