Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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‘Dark Waters’: DuPont chemical’s toxic profits
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New PBS film ‘McCarthy’: Lessons unlearned
November 19, 2019Writer-director-producer Grimberg gives us a fine, understated look at what a genial, right-minded, homegrown elected-official terrorism looks like.
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‘Waking in Havana’: Good works on the AIDS front in Cuba
November 12, 2019Elena Schwolsky’s new book Waking in Havana: A Memoir of AIDS and Healing in Cuba is a well-written, moving account of her work as a nurse in Cuba’s HIV/AIDS prevention program.
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‘The Laundromat’: Getting the dirt out
October 29, 2019The Laundromat tells us and shows us that reform of America’s broken finance system cannot wait.
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‘Lehman Trilogy’ explores the demise of a financial empire: Buyers beware!
August 29, 2019National Theatre’s The Lehman Trilogy, showing in theaters around the world, is a brilliant, tragic cautionary tale—that needs to come with a warning label!
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‘Fight On’: Anti-socialist hysteria motivates conservative propaganda flick
March 12, 2019Donald Trump has a movie he’d like you to see.
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‘My Brilliant Friend’: Two broke girls
January 10, 2019The brilliance of the series would seem to owe much to mid-20th-century Italian neorealist directors.
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‘My Country No More’: PBS asks, Whose land is it?
January 4, 2019“We are just people who are losing their way of life and their land.”
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