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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.

CANNES OVERVIEW 2025

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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 a list of films from Totalitarian Hell—all different angles on what happens when the bad...
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July 22, 2023

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Mission Impossible and Oppenheimer

I have checked out not just one Mission Impossible, but two, the latest Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One with Tom Cruise returning as agent Ethan Hunt in the 7th installment in the series,...
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June 26, 2023

Harlan Jacobson On the 95th Academy Awards

We’re in the final hours of Oscar chatter which began about a year ago and ends with the 95th Academy Awards this Sunday night. Oscar handicapping usually starts just after the...
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May 25, 2023

Harlan Jacobson reports from the 76th Cannes Film Festival

The most anticipated film this year at the 76th Cannes Film Festival was Killers of the Flower Moon directed by one of just about every cinema lover’s modern heroes, Martin Scorsese, adapted...
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April 10, 2023

Affleck and Damon’s SXSW hit, AIR, swishes the net

AIR had its premiere at SXSW, where I recently reported on the beefed-up selection of films. The new Ben Affleck directed film, in which he stars with his Boston buddy Matt...
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April 6, 2023

Harlan Jacobson On Sundance 2023

It’s Sundance film festival time, and this year’s edition, which closes this weekend by announcing winners in both feature and documentary competitions in the US and internationally, showed better than...
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June 26, 2022

Will Smith: Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner?

The 94th Academy Awards, which concluded last Sunday night, confounded just about everyone who watched it—whether they were in the elite crowd inside the Academy’s return to the Dolby Theatre or...
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June 26, 2022

Harlan Jacobson Reviews The Fabelmans, Empire of Light and Armageddon Time

Festival is misleading or even a misnomer. The important A-list fests are really conventions, a cross between sales conventions to introduce the new line — in the garment industry parlance...
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June 26, 2022

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Automat featuring Mel Brooks

Lisa Hurwitz’ The AUTOMAT, which came out of the Telluride Film Festival and opens this week at the Film Forum in Manhattan, is a seductive dive back through time into...
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June 26, 2022

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick brings Tom Cruise back to the screen, flying faster than a speeding bullet, doing his own stunts in jet planes, blowing stuff up, reclaiming the pretty girl he...
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June 26, 2022

Harlan Jacobson Reports from the Red Carpet: Cannes Film Fest 2022 Opening Night

Festivals are organized fantasy markets, every so often featuring great fantasies and great actors who “play” and sometimes move or even inspire us. The rather humdrum opening of the 75th...
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June 26, 2022

https://talkcinema.com/harlan-jacobson-reports-sundance-film-fest-2022

The strongest among the films I caught up with were mostly those about the great disconnect, as if there’s just some information missing in what’s going down between characters onscreen....
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June 26, 2022

Harlan Jacobson on the Best of 2022

Unmoored from a robust theatrical release schedule, the professional voyeurs we call film critics spent this third year emerging from Covid looking at character driven films more from the festival...
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