Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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‘American Primeval’: The prophets and the profits
February 24, 2025‘American Primeval’ is a serious, sophisticated, multi-layered look at the forces that developed the West.
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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’: Bitter harvest
February 18, 2025Iman is nervous. Raised simply in the Iranian countryside, he is under pressure to succeed in his elevation from Government Investigator to Judge.
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‘I’m Still Here’: A cautionary tale
February 3, 2025This film’s lessons cannot be underestimated at a time when our own country is facing similar threats of authoritarian rule.
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‘The Bibi Files’: Prime Minister of Corruption
January 17, 2025The Bibi Files shows how this “architect of chaos” used his power over a flawed system to wreak havoc over the entire Middle East.
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‘A Complete Unknown’: It ain’t me, babe!
January 3, 2025Perhaps we ask too much from our heroes.
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‘Landman’ series a propaganda promo show for fossil fuel industry
December 12, 2024Billy Bob Thornton has thrown in his lot with the powers that be, the rich and powerful, the corporate interests of Big Oil.
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‘Woman of the Hour’: Victims of the culture
December 2, 2024Clearly, Anna Kendrick has something to say.
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Follies of empire highlighted as ‘Epitafio’ gets its second coming
November 25, 2024Rather than a paean to the costs of settlement, it serves as a cautionary against colonization, a sad reminder of the human costs of such exploitation.
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