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Bong’s ‘Parasite’ focuses on plight of South Korea’s poor

February 11, 2020 By Kim Tong-Hyung

South Koreans are reveling in writer-director Bong Joon Ho’s dark comic thriller, “Parasite,” which won this year’s Academy Awards for best film and best international feature.

Review: ‘Emma.’ adds stylish imagery while staying close to Austen’s classic work

February 11, 2020 By Chauncey K. Robinson

It isn’t exactly groundbreaking cinema, but the film stays true to the source material while providing quality comedic and dramatic performances by the cast.

Steven Knight’s ‘A Christmas Carol’: Dickens in the age of neoliberalism

February 11, 2020 By Dennis Broe

This episode points out, as do the others, the ruthlessness of a society based on competition, control and confinement.

‘See You Yesterday’: A Netflix film about police killings of African Americans

February 10, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

First-time feature filmmakers, director Stefon Bristol and his co-writer Fredrica Bailey have aimed for, and largely achieved an almost impossible goal.

Kirk Douglas: The slave who rebelled

February 6, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

“I’ve made over 85 pictures,” he fondly remembered, “but the thing I’m most proud of is breaking the Blacklist.”