Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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‘From Here/From There’ (De Aqui/de Alla): The Extraordinary Journey of Luis Cortes Romero
June 17, 2024PBS tells the story of the first undocumented attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court.
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’: Fast, furious, and feminist!
May 31, 2024The self-declared feminist director’s new movie Furiosa, the latest installment of his Mad Max saga, is clearly women-driven.
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‘Fallout’: Who wasted the Wasteland?
May 2, 2024Unlike other disaster-based games that have fallen by the wayside, this show makes real the pernicious threat of late capitalism.
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‘Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal’
March 25, 2024There is much to be learned from the most calamitous environmental disaster in American History—so far.
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‘Perfect Days’: Cleaning the toilets of Tokyo
March 15, 2024What is life for? How do you spend the brief time that we have on earth? What makes you happy? Will your work make you free?
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‘The Invisible Shield’: Public health’s unseen (and underfunded) battle to save lives
March 5, 2024Catastrophe has always been the driving force behind the development of public health. PBS series ‘The Invisible Shield’ tells the tale.
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‘Killing It’: Before it kills us!
February 8, 2024One of the most trenchant recent critiques of late capitalism is Killing It, a droll television comedy show about killing Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.
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‘Poor Things’: Don’t start the Revolution without me!
January 24, 2024Could it be that the very best film of 2023 is actually a sexual and revolutionary tract?!
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