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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 Beale Street, Mary Poppins and The Other Side of the Wind for WBGO.ORG

As we head into the holidays, there’s a sleigh full of new films that either have opened or are opening before the end of the month. Some are in the...
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Harlan Jacobson reports on Sundance 2018 for Frankfurter Zeitung ( english translation attached)

Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reports on Sundance 2018 Film Festival for Frankfurter Zeitung – english translation attached.  Tune in here for Harlan’s Sundance coverage as heard on WBGO-FM. Read Full Review
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Harlan Jacobson Reviews Solo for WBGO-FM

WBGO film critic Harlan Jacobson has just returned from the 71st Cannes Film. It’s the highest platform for film art on Planet Earth.  One of the films he saw there...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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