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"Makes a compelling case for the return of highly perverted erotic cinema." brianna arrives to review 80s/90s thriller-throwback THE VOYEURS—featured in tomorrow's issue but read it early online. digboston.com/film-review-th…

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"Baker has found the best protagonist since Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner." brianna reviews RED ROCKET from New York Film Festival—it plays tonight at the Brattle Theatre as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston Fall Focus, with only about 10 seats left unsold so plan fast. digboston.com/festival-repor…

"Baker has found the best protagonist since Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner."

<a href="/justbrizigs/">brianna</a> reviews RED ROCKET from <a href="/TheNYFF/">New York Film Festival</a>—it plays tonight at the <a href="/BrattleTheatre/">Brattle Theatre</a> as part of the <a href="/IFFBoston/">Independent Film Festival Boston</a> Fall Focus, with only about 10 seats left unsold so plan fast. digboston.com/festival-repor…
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As explained in thread* linked below we've got a backlog to get through, so please indulge the next week or so of late 2021-posting until we're caught up. *embarrassing I know, won't happen again.

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This feed hasn't yet featured a few @EtanHeytan articles from recent issues, like this one about NO TIME TO DIE that starts by asking "What does a James Bond fan look like?" then follows that line all the way to "the messiah-ification of the action hero." digboston.com/notes-on-no-ti…

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Last fall Isaac Feldberg kicked off a seasonal DigBoston Film column to riff on the horror movies he sees as part of his freelance beat—this first entry gives notes on V/H/S/94, THE SPINE OF NIGHT, and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: NEXT OF KIN. digboston.com/horror-beat-fa…

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Another late 2021 issue had @EtanHeytan reviewing SPENCER, getting intrigued by its "portrait of the English monarchy as a bizarre, freakish institution" then dissapointed by director Pablo Larraín's failure to follow through. digboston.com/film-review-sp…

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Halfway point for this issue of DigBoston, one week left in the boxes. For movies it has our JACKASS FOREVER review, online here: digboston.com/film-review-ja… Also has Olivia Deng's five-star review of POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ! Read it online tomorrow, or in print right now...

Halfway point for this issue of <a href="/DigBoston/">DigBoston</a>, one week left in the boxes. For movies it has our JACKASS FOREVER review, online here: digboston.com/film-review-ja…

Also has <a href="/oliviadeng1/">Olivia Deng</a>'s five-star review of POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ! Read it online tomorrow, or in print right now...
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Following a one-night-only booking at the Brattle Theatre weeks ago, POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ is now on VOD. Read Olivia Deng's five-star review, considering how it depicts the X-Ray Spex frontwoman's "DIY ethos... like a collage of Styrene’s life." digboston.com/film-review-po…

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"With both cinema and football, it’s about the rhythm." Forrest Cardamenis interviews Alexandre Koberidze, writer/director of WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?, now streaming on MUBI. digboston.com/interview-alex…

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We took the Brattle Theatre's Bugs Bunny Film Fest at its word, and covered it like one. Capsule reviews by @EtanHeytan, @localexwife, Jake Mulligan, and Looney Tunes critic king Caden Mark Gardner on mostly classic shorts—showtimes remain through Sunday: digboston.com/festival-repor…

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From a recent issue, Willow Catelyn Maclay reviews THE LAST THING MARY SAW—an 1840s-set horror film "with a twist of queer representation that isn’t inserted for titillation but for thematic resonance." Now streaming on Shudder. digboston.com/film-review-th…

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Our report on The DocYard's spring program hasn't reached print yet... but it's online early as EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF—reviewed by Forrest Cardamenis, who finds it has "intimacy that could only be attained by close family"—screens Brattle Theatre tonight, 7pm. digboston.com/program-review…

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"If you see it in the full aspect ratio, it cuts through time and space." — M. Scorsese Section editor Jake Mulligan will give a brief intro before tonight's Coolidge After Midnite screening of THE TRIP, on 35mm at midnight. See it in the full aspect ratio. coolidge.org/films/trip-1967

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"The director takes a restrained approach—A THOUSAND FIRES is about one family’s tenacity and hope, a film stark in its simplicity." Olivia Deng on Saeed Taji Farouky's A THOUSAND FIRES, playing tonight Brattle Theatre x The DocYard at 7pm with Saeed in person! digboston.com/program-review…

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"The best part about a festival is bringing community together." Boston Underground Film Festival's Nicole McControversy and Caoimhín Thomas 🐇 speak with Abigail Lee about this year's festival, which starts tonight with YOU WON'T BE ALONE and THE NEST at Brattle Theatre! digboston.com/we-really-like…

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"[SOUTH] collages liberatory struggles... and tempers it with the nervousness that [we] can never achieve perfect alignment with collective action." @localexwife gives notes on The DocYard x Brattle Theatre show of films by Morgan Quaintance, tonight 7pm! digboston.com/program-review…

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"AFTER SHERMAN shows the futility of 'collective' history where the burden... rests on the oppressed, while the oppressors spin their own tales." Caden Mark Gardner reviews AFTER SHERMAN, playing in just a couple hours at Brattle Theatre x The DocYard. digboston.com/program-review…

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"The performances are both intimate and grandiose, akin to church sermons and just as sacred." brianna reviews the second Nick Cave x Andrew Dominik concert film, THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE, which played shows including Brattle Theatre last night. digboston.com/film-review-th…

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.DigBoston film editor Jake Mulligan is talking Jackie Brown at Coolidge Corner Theatre this Tuesday, July 5, right before the movie itself at 7pm! Check the link to sign up for the seminar and the screening: coolidge.org/events/seminar…

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For my first piece of film criticism in quite a few months, I wrote about Jodie Mack's Blanket Statement No. 2: It's All or Nothing, a favorite movie of mine, which plays at the Brattle Theatre in just a couple hours as part of a larger Mack program. digboston.com/movie-diary-bl…