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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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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson shines like the movies at the 78th Cannes Film Festival

Cannes edition #78 is a whole nuther kettle of soupe de poisson / fish soup from last year. it’s as if Thierry Fremaux, the delegue general, director of programming, compiled a list of films from Totalitarian Hell—all different angles on what happens when the bad...
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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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December 2, 2016

Harlan Jacobson’s Favorite Films of 2016

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August 2, 2016

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Hacksaw Ridge

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July 14, 2016

Harlan Jacobson Reports on 2016 Cannes Film Festival for WBGO-FM

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July 1, 2016

Harlan Jacobson reports on the Sundance Film Festival 2016

Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reports from the Sundance Film Festival for The Philadelphia Inquirer Read Full Review
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July 1, 2016

Harlan Jacobson reports on Cannes Film Festival 2016

Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reports from the Cannes Film Festival. Read Full Review
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May 2, 2016

Harlan Jacobson Reviews Ghostbusters and Absolutely Fabulous for WBGO-FM

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March 2, 2016

Harlan Jacobson Reports on Tribeca Film Fest 2016 for WBGO-FM

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