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Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. Joe has worked for The New York Times the New York Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and his freelance writing has appeared in The New Yorker The New York Times Magazine the Los Angeles Times Magazine Playboy GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for television; his scripts include 'The Boy in the Plastic Bubble' and several episodes of 'Law & Order.' Joe is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
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Through a glass glibly
14 AUG 2020 · In "Boys State," a documentary streaming on Apple TV+, 1,000 or so high school juniors come together in Texas for a week-long program in which they build their own state government and run for governor in mock elections. How they go about it...3m 40s -
Rising from real ashes
31 JUL 2020 · Ron Howard's "Rebuilding Paradise," a fine National Geographic documentary, reconstructs the 2018 wildfire that destroyed the town of Paradise in the foothills of Northern California. The film also has something to say, however indirectly, about our...3m 24s -
When the Nucleus Won't Hold
24 JUL 2020 · "Radioactive," a biopic that starts to be about Marie Curie, can't resist a cause-and-effect survey of radiation that extends as far afield as Hiroshima, the Nevada Proving Ground and Chernobyl. But Rosamund Pike's vivid performance as the...3m 24s -
Healing a soldier and his family
17 JUL 2020 · A Netflix documentary, "Father Soldier Son," spans almost a decade as it tracks a former platoon sergeant, gravely wounded in Afghanistan, and the two young sons who adore him.3m 34s -
A spectacle for the streaming domain in the time of the pandemic
10 JUL 2020 · "Greyhound," with Tom Hanks as a destroyer captain during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, brings an action adventure to home screens. But it also reminds us how much we've lost with the closing of theaters and their huge screens.3m 38s -
The Pain and Exquisite Joy of Performance
26 JUN 2020 · "The Audition" stars the great German actress Nina Hoss as a violin teacher determined to turn a tender young student into a virtuoso. Â3m 31s -
When Not To Say No
19 JUN 2020 · "Babyteeth" is a debut feature from Australia, and what a debut: Shannon Murphy, who's never done a full-length film before, directed from a screenplay by Rita Kalnejais. The genre is familiar, a lovely young girl with a disease that may kill her,...4m 14s -
A Movie Of and For the Moment
12 JUN 2020 · Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods," streaming on Netflix, is sprawling, enthralling and essential viewing. It comes on as an action adventure--a group of black Vietnam vets go back to Vietnam to find the remains of their squad leader and the gold bullion he...3m 32s -
The Pleasures and Perversities of Sisterhood
5 JUN 2020 · "Shirley," a free-form fictional biopic about the writer Shirley Jackson, has two main settings: Bennington, Vermont, where, in the 1960s, her husband teaches English at Bennington College, and the turbulent landscape of Shirley's inner life, where...3m 43s -
Projecting the future of the big screen
29 MAY 2020 · Can the theatrical experience survive? Movie theaters will reopen sometime soon, though not all of them, but the streaming revolution was changing viewing habits long before the pandemic, and has only gained force, and converts, since the...3m 20s
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. Joe has worked for The New York Times the New York Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and his freelance writing has appeared in The New Yorker The New York Times Magazine the Los Angeles Times Magazine Playboy GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for television; his scripts include 'The Boy in the Plastic Bubble' and several episodes of 'Law & Order.' Joe is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
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