
Elizabeth Weitzman
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‘Let It Be Morning’ Review: Palestinian Drama Takes a Caustic and Familiar Path
By Elizabeth Weitzman | February 3, 2023 @ 8:00 AMThe melancholy affair relies less on absurdist laughs and more on frank despair
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‘The Man in the Basement’ Review: In Tense French Drama, the Hate Is Coming From Inside the House
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 26, 2023 @ 3:30 PMThe ominous title is well-matched by an edgy score, tense editing, and a tough-to-watch buildup of pressure
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‘Shotgun Wedding’ Review: If Only J. Lo Had Said, ‘I Don’t’
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 26, 2023 @ 3:00 PMAfter her first two leading men ran away from the project, Jennifer Lopez would have been wise to leave this script at the altar
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‘Food and Country’ Review: Ruth Reichl Doc About Food Systems Is Earnest, Captivating and Overstuffed
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 23, 2023 @ 6:40 PMSundance 2023: There’s an entire TV series’ worth of material to chew on within filmmaker Laura Gabbert’s documentary
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‘The Stroll’ Review: Poignant Tribute Documents Trans Sex Workers in Pre-Gentrified NYC
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 23, 2023 @ 6:25 PMSundance 2023: The film celebrates the resilience and strength of survivors of West 14th Street, even as it leaves us wanting to know more
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‘Scrapper’ Review: Dad and Daughter Bond in Lovely British Drama
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 22, 2023 @ 10:30 PMSundance 2023: First-time writer-director Charlotte Regan pairs Harris Dickinson and talented newcomer Lola Campbell
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‘Young. Wild. Free.’ Review: Teen Drama Veers Off-Track When Nightmare and Dream Girl Collide
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 22, 2023 @ 4:45 PMSundance 2023: For all the film’s shortcomings, it does provide a showcase for the talented Algee Smith
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‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Examines the Exhaustion of Hospital Chaplaincy
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 21, 2023 @ 3:50 PMSundance 2023: A chaplain-in-training faces a baptism of fire in the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic
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‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Review: Doc Traces the Work and Woes of a Sexual Revolutionary
By Elizabeth Weitzman | January 20, 2023 @ 3:25 PMSundance 2023: This compelling examination of Hite’s life is less a mystery and more a look at how feminists get manhandled by the media patriarchy
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The 10 Best Movies You May Have Missed of 2022
By Elizabeth Weitzman | December 22, 2022 @ 7:30 AMKeep an eye out for these titles that may have slipped under your radar
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‘Joyride’ Review: Not Even Olivia Colman Can Keep This Road Trip on Track
By Elizabeth Weitzman | December 22, 2022 @ 7:22 AMGenerous viewers will be required to check their skepticism at the door for this cutesy drama about parenting and lost souls who find each other
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‘Nelly & Nadine’ Review: Extraordinary War Doc Also Tells a Love Story and a Family Saga
By Elizabeth Weitzman | December 15, 2022 @ 1:02 PMA lesbian affair unfolds during and beyond the horrors of the Holocaust in Magnus Gertten’s captivating film
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‘To the End’ Review: Eco-Documentary Finds Inspiration in Young Activists
By Elizabeth Weitzman | December 8, 2022 @ 1:28 PMRachel Lears’ follow-up to ”Knock Down the House“ is less focused, if no less passionate
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‘Broadway Rising’ Review: Affectionate Doc Pays Tribute to Theaters Pushing Through COVID
By Elizabeth Weitzman | December 2, 2022 @ 2:45 PMFrom the stars to the ushers, we experience a community facing the pandemic and searching for a way forward
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‘Darby and the Dead’ Review: Soulless Teen Dramedy Arrives DOA
By Elizabeth Weitzman | November 30, 2022 @ 8:08 PMThe film’s messages about popularity and social media read as wishy-wishy when they’re not downright retrograde