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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 11 Apr 2017

Entertainment oriented critics obviously were not entertained by this…

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Review of The Promise (2017)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 11 Apr 2017

Entertainment oriented critics obviously were not entertained by this…

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Review of The Promise (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 11 Apr 2017

Entertainment oriented critics obviously were not entertained by this…

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Review of Tickling Giants (2017)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 14 Mar 2017

Despite the light-hearted and guffaw-inspiring nature of most of the film, it is also a deadly serious look at repression in Egypt and how…

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Review of Uncertain (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 09 Mar 2017

A worthy addition to the genre that includes Vernon, Florida and Pleasures and Plagues of the Salton Sea…

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Review of Tanna (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 07 Mar 2017

No film in this genre comes close to Tanna in terms of story-telling expertise, acting by non-professionals, cinematography, music and political…

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Review of The Founder (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 03 Feb 2017

Despite a tendency to veer toward something out of the McDonalds PR department, a briskly entertaining look at Ray Kroc's sleazy business practices…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 01 Feb 2017

You'll learn more about the art of filmmaking in this documentary than from any course in the UCLA or NYU film school…

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Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 01 Feb 2017

More interesting as a portrait of James Baldwin than it is of the men he planned to write about but compelling nonetheless…

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Review of Alone in Berlin (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 30 Dec 2016

Ignore the Rottens, at least if you are a politically aware person eager to see how people of conscience dared to throw a monkey-wrench in…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Dec 2016

Fascinating tale of an autodidact who died at the age of 32 leaving behind a body of work that ranks among the 20th century's most valuable…

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Review of Thanks Boss! (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 29 Nov 2016

This is the kind of film Michael Moore has a reputation for making but does not deserve…

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Review of Asperger's Are Us (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 28 Nov 2016

Four young men with Asperger's discover that comedy is the best cure for what ails them…

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Review of Don't Think Twice (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 25 Nov 2016

Both a breezy entertainment and a profound statement on the pursuit of the Bitch Goddess success in American capitalists society…

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Review of Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 Nov 2016

As much a documentary on Kurosawa, the film is a reminder of how much we have lost since the golden age of cinema was replaced by the bottom-line…

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Review of Magnus (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 Nov 2016

Mostly of interest for chess enthusiasts, it is a fascinating study of someone as gifted as Bobby Fischer but not burdened by madness…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 19 Nov 2016

This film benefits from a screenplay written by David Hare, arguably Britain's finest living playwright, who eschewed holocaust film cliches…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 19 Nov 2016

This film benefits from a screenplay written by David Hare, arguably Britain's finest living playwright, who eschewed holocaust film cliches…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 15 Nov 2016

Octopuses from outer space can't begin to compete with Klaatu or ET…

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Review of Barry (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 11 Nov 2016

Filled with implausible incidents meant to buttress the premise that Obama was an outside to both Blacks and whites and generally devoid of…

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