Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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Culture
“Hell or High Water”: Who’s robbing whom?
February 9, 2017Tanner Howard is fresh out of prison. His brother Toby is fresh out of money.
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Culture
“Maya Angelou – And Still I Rise”: The caged bird sings!
January 20, 2017Directors Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack have given us a captivating documentary about the extraordinary writer, actress, singer, poet and activist Maya Angelou.
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Culture
La La Land: Artistic success
January 3, 2017This is a very American film in that most American medium, the musical.
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Culture
“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”: Militarism inconclusively critiqued
December 9, 2016Ang Lee is a great director, but his latest offering gives us a pyrrhic victory; a worthy build-up followed by a perfunctory conclusion.
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Culture
“Loving”: The love that breaks the chains
December 7, 2016The film is the story of the successful challenge to racist laws, a story of courage and deep feelings well told.
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Arts
“Snowden”: Love, life and privacy in the time of surveillance
September 26, 2016Oliver Stone's excellent new film "Snowden" is a primer on life in the digital age - the perils to privacy, professionalism and the personal.
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Arts
“Indignation”: A snapshot of 1950s social contradictions
August 16, 2016Dressed up as a coming of age love story, film is a tale individuals pushing up against the social, economic, and cultural limits of their time.
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I watched Dinesh D’Souza’s awkward anti-Hillary movie so you don’t have to
August 2, 2016D'Souza selectively culls, bends, and ultimately breaks history in a desperate attempt to show how all evil flows from Democrats.
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