Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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‘Last Dance’: Face the music with Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls
May 11, 2020As we sit in quarantine and practice physical distancing, with too little money and too much time on our hands, a masked nation turns its lonely eyes to . . . Michael Jordan.
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‘George W. Bush’: Stunning documentary on worst American president (until now)
May 5, 2020Barak Goodman and Jamila Ephron’s new PBS documentary George W. Bush is an excellent treatment of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush.
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Sickness and the cure: The great pandemic films, and the greatest
April 14, 2020The current disaster is an opportunity for us to build a better world. Understanding this one is just the first step!
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What does a hero look like? See ‘El Pepe: A Supreme Life’
April 8, 2020At first glance, he’s a gnarled, wizened, disheveled, weather-beaten old man. He could use a trim and new clothes. He sits on a bench at his farm, the chickens pecking for insects in the ground around...
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‘Unorthodox’: The vagaries of victimization
April 1, 2020As this group of religious zealots have turned from being victims to being perpetrators, there is a cautionary that needs to be attached to this kind of fundamentalism.
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‘Sorry We Missed You’: Not sorry we robbed you!
February 25, 2020Possibly more than any of this other work, Sorry We Missed You stands as an example of the economic struggles which define our times.
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Kirk Douglas: The slave who rebelled
February 6, 2020“I’ve made over 85 pictures,” he fondly remembered, “but the thing I’m most proud of is breaking the Blacklist.”
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HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Who will guard the guards?
January 7, 2020Watchmen is an unblinking look at American right-wing populism and racism, through the eyes of lead Black characters in a science fiction comic book superstructure.
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