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Harlan Jacobson’s Reviews and Interviews

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.
Wicked: For Good finishes the story of two young witches who met in their witchcraft school days at Shiz university, and post-graduately struggle for the soul of the Emerald City of Oz in Munchkinland.
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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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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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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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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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