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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.
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 for two decades for the film to be made.
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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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62nd New York Film Festival Coverage

The 62nd New York Film Festival is held at the Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a...
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Toronto Int’l Film Festival Coverage

The 49th Toronto Film Festival from has been productive and well executed, as the media, the business people and the very enthusiastic public – some might say they never met a...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports From SXSW 2024: Civil War

In ALEX GARLAND’S new film, CIVIL WAR, we are dropped not exactly into the middle of a new American civil war, more like the end game of one that the film...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports From SXSW 2024: Clemente

When baseball returns this weekend, whichever team you look forward to seeing take the field, whatever players you hope make it through the season in one piece, whether it’s Judge...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports From SXSW 2024: Billy Preston

While the politics that has come to the SXSW multimedia music, film, great thinkers, and tech festival that comes to a close this weekend in Austin, our film critic Harlan...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports On The Oscars

The 96th Academy Awards, the Oscars, will take place next Sunday, March 10 in Hollywood, and love them, hate them, or ignore them, there never seems to be a shortage of...
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Harlan Jacobson Reports on Sundance Film Festival 2024

This year I parachuted into Sundance remotely from the greater NY-NJ metroplex to take the pulse of a festival that kicks off the acquisition year for American film companies scouting...
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Harlan Jacobson Considers the Best of 2023

Audiences have trickled back this year except for the torrent of those lined up to see big deal event films, when the mashup of Barbenheimer dominated the mediascape. Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER with...
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Harlan Jacobson reviews American Fiction and Rustin

American Fiction started under the radar at this year’s Toronto Film Festival but emerged as the festival’s People’s Choice award winner. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious “Monk” Ellison – how’s that for...
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