Comedies are always plentiful, and this year, so were the belly laughs.
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25th Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘Tito’s Glasses’
Have your parents been truthful with you about their past?
Read More »25th NY Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘Carvalho’s Journey’ with Michael Stuhlbarg
Would you brave thirty degree below zero temperatures to manifest your destiny?
Read More »New York Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘Natasha’
When Mark is introduced to his cousin from Moscow, the daughter of his uncle's new wife, he is uninterested until Natasha sets the record straight.
Read More »25th NY Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘How to Win Enemies’
How do you punish your enemies so that they really feel it and change?
Read More »25th NY Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘Cinema: A Public Affair’
Can art and film art be used as a tool for civic awareness and self-liberation?
Read More »Whistler Film Festival: ‘The Legend of Barney Thomson’
Robert Carlyle's directorial debut about the hapless barber is grotesquely fun, featuring a long overdue collaboration with Emma Thompson.
Read More »25th New York Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘The Law’
When the French parliament debated whether abortion should be legalized in 1974, the most rational and logical case presented was by Simone Veil, the Minister of Health.
Read More »Whistler Film Festival: Born to Be Blue
‘Born to be Blue’ is a visual and musical masterpiece from Ethan Hawke’s array of passion projects.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Rabin, The Last Day’ at the 25th New York Jewish Film Festival
Yitzak Rabin remains a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a process that many hope will never take place.
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