Reviews
Harlan Jacobson Reviews Lin-Manuel Miranda's In The Heights directed by John Chu
With the insanely popular and priced Hamilton, show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda built a Broadway bridge to the American Revolution for minority audiences to cross over and inhabit the story. His new film, In the Heights, after a year’s delay due to the pandemic, is both streaming on HBO Max and opened the Tribeca Film Festival that began June 9th, 2021.
Harlan Jacobson reviews One Night in Miami directed by Regina King
Actress turned director Regina King’s One Night in Miami is a ‘what if’ fictional story about the night of Feb. 25, 1964 when 22-year-old Cassius Clay whups Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight championship of the world at the Convention Center in Miami.
Harlan Jacobson reviews The Father directed by Florian Zeller
The Father, with Anthony Hopkins, like us, is cooped up in his apartment and losing his sense of what’s what and who’s who.
Harlan Jacobson Reviews The Tragedy of Macbeth and Oscar Peterson: Black + White
Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth | New York Film Festival 2021
Barry Avrich's Oscar Peterson: Black and White | Toronto Film Festival 2021
By Harlan Jacobson
Harlan Jacobson reviews The Underground Railroad directed by Barry Jenkins
In four films Barry Jenkins has established himself as a high artist of the Black American experience.
Harlan Jacobson Reviews Three New Westerns
Old Henry, Power of the Dog, The Harder They Fall : A fabulous trifecta of Westerns
By Harlan Jacobson
Chadwick Boseman Remembered
I was halfway through The Last Dance, the 10-part ESPN doc on Netflix on Michael Jordan, King Michael, when news came of the death of Chadwick Boseman of cancer at 43. It’s a sickening feeling when a young person just entering the prime of his career is cut short.
