Film (2022)
Written and directed by Ruben Östlund
AMC Boston Common, Boston
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
A dark satire on power and social relationships, winner of the 2022 Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Reviewed by Tim Jackson
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Lucy and Desi
Film (2022)
Documentary
Directed by Amy Poehler
A balanced and comprehensive account of the lives and careers of the great comic duo, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, individually and as a pair, narrated from the perspective of their daughter Luci.
Don’t Look Up
Film (2021)
Written and directed by
Adam McKay
Netflix
With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep , Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet
A rollicking farce about a comet headed for earth, the two astronomers who discover it, and the completely ineffective government which responds to it.
Belfast
Film (2021)
Written and Directed by Kenneth Branagh
A beautifully written, directed, and produced film set in the late 1960s in Belfast in the middle of the troubles between Protestants and Catholics.
In The Heights
Film, Musical (2021)
Directed by Jon M. Chu
Based on the musical stage play by Quiara Alegría Hudes and
Lin-Manuel Miranda
A hard not-to-like extravaganza about Washington Heights, Manhattan with Bollywood-type dance scenes and unexpected special effects, based on the 2008 musical by the Hamilton wiz Lin-Manuel Miranda.