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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.

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds by Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog’s Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds tracks the common meteor from outer space to strikes around the world, continuing the collaboration between the indestructible German-born Herzog, now 78, one of the greatest rogue filmmaking adventurers of all time and Cambridge University Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer,

Harlan Jacobson Provides Highlights from the 58th NY Film Festival

When you see 2020, this strange year, it has in its way helped all of us to have occasional bouts of perfect vision: What’s important. Who’s important...

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee has made some 25 feature films and five documentaries in a career devoted to putting the black American experience onscreen. His latest film is Da 5 Bloods.

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Greyhound directed by Aaron Schneider

Spike Lee has made some 25 feature films and five documentaries in a career devoted to putting the black American experience onscreen. His latest film is Da 5 Bloods.