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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.
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KOKUHO: The latest Japanese film import is a Kabuki backstage bombshell

Kokuho, set in 1952, in Postwar Japan, in the world of Kabuki Theatre, the 17th century Japanese form of opera, The screenplay by Satoko Okudera is based on a runaway best-selling novel in Japan by Shuichi Yoshida, brought to the screen in the third collaboration...
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June 26, 2021

Harlan Jacobson reviews Godzilla V. Kong directed by Adam Wingard

DD: Normally, Godzilla Vs. Kong is the sort of big screen special effects slugfest that draws all sorts of folks to the biggest screens they can find for Easter: kids, cretins, CEOs of...
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June 26, 2021

Harlan Jacobson Reports from the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival

Having closed down in 2020, along with the rest of the world, the Tribeca Film Festival is the first American festival to come back, or most of the way back...
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June 26, 2021

Harlan Jacobson Talks Up Jazzfest: A New Orleans Story with Doug Doyle, Frank Marshall, Irma Thomas and Quint Davis

Sony Pictures Classics releases the new documentary film JAZZFEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY on May 13 in NYC and LA. The film’s director, 5-time Academy Awards nominee Frank Marshall, Quint Davis of the New...
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June 25, 2021

Harlan Jacobson reviews One Night in Miami directed by Regina King

Actress turned director Regina King’s One Night in Miami is a ‘what if’ fictional story about the night of Feb. 25, 1964 when 22-year-old Cassius Clay whups Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight...
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May 1, 2021

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Three New Westerns

Old Henry, Power of the Dog, The Harder They Fall : A fabulous trifecta of Westerns By Harlan Jacobson Old Henry, Power of the Dog and The Harder They Fall aren’t your great...
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November 16, 2020

Checkmate: Film Critic Harlan Jacobson Checks Out “On The Rocks” and “The Queen’s Gambit”

You don’t have to go to the movies—or pull them up online—to get a sense of the generational discontent that drove the election this week. Our film critic, Harlan Jacobson,...
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November 1, 2020

Harlan Jacobson’s Tribute to the Legendary Little Richard

R &B, ROCK & GOSPEL legend Little Richard left us this month.  You can spend some time listening to him or even looking at him on film. There’s a wonderful...
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November 1, 2020

Harlan Jacobson’s post-election reflections: The Queen’s Gambit and On The Rocks

After all that has been said about Mssrs. Biden and Trump and how they differ from soup to nuts, in that order, the one thing they shared as candidates and...
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October 1, 2020

Harlan Jacobson Reviews The Plot Against America

What to watch in a pandemic is new territory for a film critic. Nothing as WBGO film critic I’m expected to deal with not now. Or Ever. But here we...
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October 1, 2020

Harlan Jacobson reviews Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom directed by George C. Wolfe

Our film critic Harlan Jacobson got the Blues this Christmas by dropping in on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the new film based on an August Wilson play from 1984. The film...
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October 1, 2020

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Invisible Man directed by Leigh Whannell

In HG Wells’ original 1897 novel, The Invisible Man, the central character, Griffin, is a medical student turned optical scientist who’s successfully unlocked the key to how we see—and turned himself...
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October 1, 2020

Harlan Jacobson reviews Hillbilly Elegy directed by Ron Howard

Hillbilly Elegy came a callin’ on Netflix in time for Thanksgiving to remind us about how complicated the notion of family really is. Our film critic, Harlan Jacobson, takes us to...
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