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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.

CANNES OPENER 2025

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 in. What are you looking forward to this year, Harlan?
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Harlan Jacobson Reviews Scorsese’s The Irishman

DeNiro, Pesci, Keitel, Pacino. Old home week for the Mob in Martin Scorsese’s much awaited and acclaimed The Irishman, which had its debut at the NY Film Festival last month and...
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Labor Films for Labor Day 2019

As my friend and Indiewire columnist Tom Brueggemann noted this week: This summer Disney had five films cross the $1 billion mark worldwide — with fewer tickets sold domestically than any year since...
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Harlan Jacobson Reviews Pain + Glory and The Joker

Pain and Glory is writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s 21st film in a career spanning nearly 40 years.  I caught it at this year’s resplendent Toronto film Festival, but it touched down briefly...
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Harlan Jacobson reports from Toronto Film Fest 2019

Plenty to see in this 44th rolling out of films in Toronto, the unlikely glitz capital of the world for these past 10 days. The major film companies, plus the itty-bitty...
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Harlan Jacobson reviews Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue

Rolling Thunder Revue’s subtitle is A Bob Dylan Story, told by Scorsese with a little help from his friends at Netflix, which helped Scorsese and collaborators find restore to vibrancy footage of...
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Harlan Jacobson reviews US by Jordan peele

Ever since The Blair Witch Project in 1999, the indie art-house horror film has been making a steady comeback. Get Out in 2017, by actor turned director Jordan Peele, was nominated for a Best Picture...
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Harlan Jacobson reports from Tribeca Film Fest 2019

Tribeca continues to be this blast of energy radiating from the downtown media hub on Varick Street,  including the Regal multiplex in Battery Park through the SVA Theatre on W. 23rd up...
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Harlan Jacobson’s Best of 2018

It was an extraordinarily diverse year in films. There were multiple films at all different levels of taste and interests. And great performances dropped out of the sky—or should I...
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Harlan Jacobson reports from Sundance 2019

Just as Hollywood drags 2018 way past the finish line with the Oscars set for Feb. 24 of this year, the Sundance Film Festival which closes this weekend kicks off...
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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson Reviews Potential Oscar Favorites

First and foremost is the long-awaited Roma by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron. Roma is autobiographical, a sense memory of growing up in Mexico City during the 1970s. It’s a gorgeous, deeply observant lens on...
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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson at TIFF 2018

The serious fun season of movies kicks off just after Labor Day with the Toronto International Film Festival that closes this weekend. Now in its 43rd year, Toronto, or TIFF,...
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Harlan Jacobson Reviews First Man and Man With a Gun for WBGO.ORG

It’s the last hurrah for the mid-century WASP, those men born before WWII, come of age after it, and built or dodged the System, the Death Star of the Military...
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