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Review: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

What’s it like being the young daughters of this John Brown–like presence?
“Bill” Kunstler was the flamboyant, contentious, proudly revolutionary lawyer for the Chicago Eight, a handsome man with an unruly mane of black-and-white that was as impressive and iconic as the head of hair on Susan Sontag.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 11, 2009

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Review: The Horse Boy

A compelling real-life adventure
Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff seem the best of parents and yet they’re worn down by their four-year-old autistic son, Rowan, with his four-hour tantrums, his rejection of toilet training, his inability to answer to his name.
By GERALD PEARY  |  November 04, 2009

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Review: Earth Days

Did you know Nixon once signed progressive eco-legislation?
Those who worry that the eco-movement seems incapable of getting beyond its white upper-middle-class base will be disturbed anew by Robert Stone’s Earth Days , where every talking head is a well-bred Caucasian.
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 07, 2009

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Reykjavik International Film Festival 2009

Report back from Iceland amidst lamb hot dogs, and fish and chips.
How would the Reykjavik International Film Festival, which I was attending, September 17 to 27, be affected by the horrid downturn?
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 29, 2009

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Review: Amreeka

Cherien Dabis's feature debut is winning
In the finely sketched beginning chapters of Arab-American writer/director Cherien Dabis's feature debut, we share the frustrating, claustrophobic life of our heroine, Munah Farah.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 23, 2009

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Review: Bigger Than Life

Cult classic gets a special showing
A year after directing Rebel Without a Cause (1955), rebel filmmaker Nicholas Ray came back with Bigger Than Life (1956).
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 16, 2009

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Review: Somers Town

Shane Meadows' latest triumph
At just 70 minutes, Shane Meadows's film is short, sweet, and winning.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 02, 2009

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Review: I Sell the Dead

Grave errors
Glenn McQuaid's graveyard-set fright-flick send-up is a low-budget valentine to "B" horrors of yore.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 26, 2009

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Review: Fifty Dead Men Walking

Fast-paced but uninvolving
In the 1980s in Northern Ireland, a petty hustler named Martin McGartland (Jim Sturgess) went from street-corner obscurity to playing a major role in the war in Belfast between Catholics and Protestants, as he swore allegiance to the militant branch of the IRA while spying for the British police.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 19, 2009

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Review: The Silence Before Bach

Perplexing
Catalonian avant-garde filmmaker Pere Portabella expresses his adoration of Johann Sebastian Bach through an odd, rambling, privately formed essay that all too rarely connects with the viewer.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 13, 2009

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Review: The End of the Line

Doomsday from under the sea
Eating fish is great for you — but it's a different story for the poor fish.
By GERALD PEARY  |  July 22, 2009

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Review: In a Dream

Unusual, probing, and honest
For seven years, Jeremiah Zagar has had the camera rolling as his hippie parents keep their symbiotic marriage afloat — though Isaiah, his fragile painter dad, teeters on the edge of lunacy.
By GERALD PEARY  |  July 01, 2009

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Review: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight

Smitten with its subject, with good reason.
In Wendy Keys's extreme hagiography, nobody on earth seems to have a bad word about graphic designer Milton Glaser, either his art or his person.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 24, 2009

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Review: Women of Faith

Means well, but the execution is flawed
Rebecca M. Alvin's documentary is a sincere attempt to understand the call to a Catholic religious vocation, but it's confused and disorganized in its telling.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 24, 2009

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Newman's own

Mainstream life, good read
Among Shawn Levy's books is one of my favorite film bios, King of Comedy , with crazy-guy Jerry Lewis, so show-off goofy and schmaltzy, spilling all on every exuberant, excessive page.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 24, 2009

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Review: Treeless Mountain

Bruising, but not all pessimism
Korean-American filmmaker So Yong Kim went back to her South Korean childhood, which she spent being shuttled from relative to relative, for her vivid, bruising autobiographical tale of two young girls in Seoul who struggle to make do after being abandoned by their mother.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 16, 2009

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Review: Lake Tahoe

Tired tropes
It's a tough time for Mexican teen Juan (Diego Cataño): his dad died recently, his mom is angry and depressed, and his younger sister is needy and lonely.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 03, 2009

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Review: Katyn

Chilling
Andrzej Wajda was Poland's most revered filmmaker during the long Communist era.
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 27, 2009

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Review: Scenes from a Parish

Father Paul saves Lawrence
James Rutenbeck's modest, old-fashioned, simply shot documentary is exactly the right way to tell a story of old-time verities and virtues, daily life in a Catholic parish in Lawrence
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 08, 2009

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Mother courage

Agnès Varda in Toronto
The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival last September proved hospitable to Agnès Varda.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 10, 2009
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