
Elizabeth Weitzman
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‘We Feed People’ Film Review: Ron Howard Documents José Andrés’ Mission to Nourish Bodies and Souls
By Elizabeth Weitzman | May 26, 2022 @ 1:40 PMBoth inspiring and a bit of an informercial, the doc follows the celebrity chef who became a leading global humanitarian
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‘Happening’ Film Review: ’60s-Set Abortion Drama Rings True to Current Zeitgeist
By Elizabeth Weitzman | May 13, 2022 @ 10:30 AMDirector Audrey Diwan uses social-realist technique to bring the audience into the heroine’s struggle to navigate a labyrinth without a map
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‘Hello, Bookstore’ Film Review: Cozy Doc Honors an Indie Retailer Standing Fast in Changing Times
By Elizabeth Weitzman | April 28, 2022 @ 3:26 PMThe local, overstuffed bookshop might seem like a relic of the past, but not if The Bookstore’s Matt Tannenbaum has anything to say about it
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‘The Duke’ Film Review: Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent Steal the Show as Blue-Collar Art Thieves
By Elizabeth Weitzman | April 21, 2022 @ 2:24 PMThe final film from director Roger Michell (”Notting Hill“) blends true crime with understated comedy, to charming effect
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‘Dual’ Film Review: Karen Gillan vs. Karen Gillan Comedy Works in Theory But Falls Short in Execution
By Elizabeth Weitzman | April 14, 2022 @ 10:09 AMGillan’s sad-sack must battle her own clone to go on living, but the film never lifts itself from the protagonist’s doldrums
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‘All the Old Knives’ Film Review: Chris Pine Spy Thriller Falls Short on Thrills
By Elizabeth Weitzman | April 7, 2022 @ 11:41 AMPine and Thandiwe Newton do a lot more telling than showing in listless espionage tale
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‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ Film Review: Limp Third Adaptation Proves It’s Time to Put These Kids to Bed
By Elizabeth Weitzman | March 17, 2022 @ 9:00 AMGabrielle Union plays a character so impressively vivid that we wonder why she’s married to — and yields the film to — an inert Zach Braff
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‘Asking For It’ Film Review: Kiersey Clemons Leads a Fierce Ensemble in Timely #MeToo Action Drama
By Elizabeth Weitzman | March 4, 2022 @ 2:45 PMEamon O’Rourke’s intense tale has the same cult-movie zeitgeist energy that turned ”Promising Young Woman“ into a sleeper hit
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‘Lucy and Desi’ Film Review: Amy Poehler’s Engaging ‘I Love Lucy’ Doc Balances History and Homage
By Elizabeth Weitzman | March 4, 2022 @ 10:29 AMIt’s an intimate, loving and even-handed exploration of the couple who changed show business forever
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‘Huda’s Salon’ Film Review: Politics and Patriarchy Haunt Palestinian Woman in Tense Thriller
By Elizabeth Weitzman | March 3, 2022 @ 3:43 PM”Paradise Now“ director Hany Abu-Assad returns with another tale of moral complexity in the Middle East
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‘I’ll Find You’ Film Review: Martha Coolidge Directs a Visually Lush WWII Romance
By Elizabeth Weitzman | February 24, 2022 @ 1:49 PMThis old-school love story is way more interested in relationships than historical tragedy
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‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’ Review: Damning Doc Paints a Portrait of Corporate Cowardice
By Elizabeth Weitzman | February 17, 2022 @ 3:01 PMThis blistering examination of just one example of malfeasance leaves us wondering about all the other scandals yet to be revealed
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‘Ted K’ Film Review: Impressionistic Unabomber Drama Reveals the Man Beneath the Monster
By Elizabeth Weitzman | February 16, 2022 @ 12:37 PMDirector Tony Stone and actor Sharlto Copley take us on a breathless high-wire act, suspended over one man’s madness
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‘Breaking Bread’ Film Review: Feel-Good Documentary Connects Arabs and Israelis Through Cuisine
By Elizabeth Weitzman | February 3, 2022 @ 1:52 PMFirst-time documentarian Beth Elise Hawk follows a Palestinian winner of Israel’s ”Top Chef“ and her culinary brand of diplomacy
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‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Film Review: Woody Allen Returns to Spain, and a Very Dry Well, for His 49th Feature
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 26, 2022 @ 2:20 PMWallace Shawn plays a grumpy old man whose tastes have stopped evolving, and it would appear Allen’s have as well