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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.
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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 bed, attended by Pete Seeger in 1961—all the way to the infamous day Dylan would’ve...
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March 30, 2018

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Back to Burgundy

When you think of France, sure you think of cheese and berets, baguettes and love–or at least adultery–and what else? Wine. You think of the Bordeaux you can’t afford, snapped...
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February 16, 2018

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Black Panther

The good guys, the bad guys, the good women, the bad women and the missing link in the form of a long, lost son who lays claim to the throne...
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December 22, 2017

Film Critic Harlan Jacobson’s Holiday Season Review

It’s been a good December at the movies. Major titles that are out there to see include James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, which finds fun and meaning in the worst movie...
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September 1, 2017

Harlan Jacobson’s Labor Day Address to the Nation

It was the worst summer in 25 years in terms of ticket sales. August tickets sales are down 35% from a year ago. The Memorial Day to Labor Day period,...
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August 11, 2017

Harlan Jacobson reports on Detroit, Patty Cake$ and Good Time for WBGO-FM

Think of summer and you think of escape. It’s built into the architecture. Hot sun, summer in the city, escape to the beach, escape to the Cape. And go to...
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July 21, 2017

Harlan Jacobson reports on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk for WBGO-FM

WBGO film critic Harlan Jacobson gives high marks to Christopher Nolan’s latest movie Dunkirk.   Read Full Review
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July 13, 2017

Harlan Jacobson reviews Hidden Figures and Silence

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July 1, 2017

Harlan Jacobson reports on Cannes Film Festival 2017 for The Boston Globe and WBGO-FM

Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reports from the Cannes Film Festival. Read Full Review   Download Review »
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June 30, 2017

Harlan Jacobson reports from the 2017 Toronto Int’l Film Fest

The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival concludes this weekend. Toronto has been the home of big titles for the past two decades, ramping up from a local festival at its...
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June 23, 2017

Harlan Jacobson reports on Summer Movies for WBGO-FM

Summer movies are about heroes. And in this hyper-sharpened environment of the performance arts, apparently it takes one to know one. This is the season of Hollywood hero movies, which…...
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April 16, 2017

Harlan Jacobson reviews Graduation, The Lost City of Z, and Tommy’s Honour

Film Critic Harlan Jacobson has three ways to embark on adventure at the movies.  Harlan reviews The Lost City of Z, Tommy’s Honour and Graduation.   Read Full Review
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January 27, 2017

Harlan Jacobson Reports from Sundance 2017

What a work of man Sundance is, namely Robert Redford. It’s his legacy, after all, far more than the Way We Were or All the President’s Men or that near-silent...
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