Ed Rampell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ed Rampell
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The new Belorussian film ‘Debut’: Crime and punishment and art therapy
December 6, 2019A well-made, touching documentary.
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‘Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator’: Oh! Kolkata, yogi bare and boo-boos
December 3, 2019As Eva Orner’s chilling Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator contends, Bikram Choudhury—who is now a fugitive from the U.S. but still teaching and cashing in elsewhere—is one of the latest in a long line of figures from...
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Borderline ‘Ivana the Terrible’: A chip off of Dusan Makavejev’s cinematic block
December 2, 2019Shot tongue in cheek, Terrible is 89 minutes of mostly good fun.
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‘Clemency’: Dead woman walking, a capital film on capital punishment
November 27, 2019Alfre Woodard, one of our elder stateswomen of the acting profession, delivers a powerhouse of a performance as the prison warden, Bernardine Williams, Clemency’s main character.
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‘Atlantics (Atlantique)’: An African ‘Get Out’ type of movie
November 25, 2019In her feature film directorial debut, the young Diop, who is already an accomplished actress in France, proves with Atlantics she also has a bright future as a metteur en scène.
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‘The Two Popes’: The god couple
November 22, 2019Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, who was Oscar-nominated for 2002’s City of God and Golden Globe-nommed for 2005’s The Constant Gardener, is back with another topical film.
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‘Desert One’: The imperialists who couldn’t shoot straight
November 21, 2019From Harlan to Hormel to Hemingway to Hostages, two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple is one of America’s preeminent documentarians.
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‘The Irishman’: Pacino, Paquin and the gangs of New York are all here
November 20, 2019I enjoyed this epic three quarters of the way through, but I could have lived without the final hour or so, which basically deals with growing old.
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