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Harlan Jacobson’s Reviews and Interviews

Reviews & News by Harlan Jacobson

Harlan Jacobson and guest contributors provide film reviews, festival and film industry coverage, along with interviews and which can regularly be heard on WBGO.org.
Jurassic World: Rebirth is the seventh in the franchise that began in 1993 when book and screenplay author Michael Crichton, a native of Roslyn, Long Island, had just turned 50. Harlan also talks about the opening for Kill the Jockey.
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Wrestling with the Movies: Hulk Hogan, Superman, The Exotico and The Ram

Jurassic World: Rebirth is the seventh in the franchise that began in 1993 when book and screenplay author Michael Crichton, a native of Roslyn, Long Island, had just turned 50....
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Jurassic world: rebirth: Scarlett sticks it to the dinosaurs.

Jurassic World: Rebirth is the seventh in the franchise that began in 1993 when book and screenplay author Michael Crichton, a native of Roslyn, Long Island, had just turned 50....
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Wes Anderson’s appearance on Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour featured Wes Anderson on her CNN hour this morning for a promotional bit for The Phoenician Scheme. And he showed up doing his best Tom Wolf impression, all...
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CANNES 78: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES

In Cannes 78, it’s as if the team led by Thierry Fremaux, the delegue general, director of programming, compiled a list of films from Totalitarian Hell—all different angles on what...
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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson shines like the movies at the 78th Cannes Film Festival

Cannes edition #78 is a whole nuther kettle of soupe de poisson / fish soup from last year. it’s as if Thierry Fremaux, the delegue general, director of programming, compiled...
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CANNES #78: DAY 1

With everything that is French about the Cannes film festival, the location, the films, the celebration of France itself, the 78th Cannes film festival notably made room on opening night,...
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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson Takes a Pre-Peek at the 78th Int’l Festival du Film

The 78th Cannes Film Festival opens next Tuesday night, the 13th, through Saturday the 24th and the awarding of the Palmes D’Or. Our film critic Harlan Jacobson will be reporting...
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The uncertainty of the future home of the Sundance Film Festival

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital...
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The Nominations, The Showgirl, and The Substance

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital...
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And Just Like That… 2024 Goes Straight to Hellions

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital...
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WICKED: For Colored Girls…When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Wicked, the Universal Studios film of the monster Broadway musical hit, has come roaring down the pike bigger than a Kansas twister and is finding all those Wicked fans who’ve been waiting...
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Our Town

When Our Town opened on Broadway in February 1938, playwright Thornton Wilder had written it 20 years after WWI had ended, nine years into the Great Depression and in a...
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