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Reviews: ‘Story of Film’ underway, ‘Apocalypse Now: Final Cut’

September 5, 2022

These reviews by Tom Meek were originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. Film Ahead is a weekly column highlighting special events and…

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Reviews: Brattle revives Lynch’s ‘Inland Empire’; Somerville’s ‘Hard Boiled’

May 2, 2022

by Bob Sprague

This review by Tom Meek was originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. Film Ahead is a weekly column highlighting special events and…

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Review: ‘Father Stu’: The passion of Wahlberg

April 15, 2022

by Bob Sprague

This review by Tom Meek was originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. If you’re going to go into “Father Stu” believing it…

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Black History Month trio: ‘Living Dead,’ Brattle romances, ‘Mr. Chicken’

February 9, 2022

by Bob Sprague

This series of reviews, by Tom Meek, Allyson Johnson and Sarah Vincent, was originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. These writers have picked three…

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Coronavirus edition: DocYard’s ‘Choice,’ stretched-out superheroes, ‘Tina’ doc

March 26, 2021

by Bob Sprague

This column by Tom Meek was originally published in Cambridge Day,a YourArlington partner, and is republished with permission. With Covid-19 social-distancing mandates and shutdown…

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Review: ‘Nomadland’: Traveling stoically from job to job, and sometimes it’s cold and the van breaks down

February 21, 2021

by Bob Sprague

This review by Tom Meek was originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. The films of Chloé Zhao, a short list that is…

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Sheltering with ‘Dissident,’ ‘Blood from Stone,’ “Painted Bird’ …

January 1, 2021

by Bob Sprague

These brief reviews by Tom Meek were originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. With the Covid-19 pandemic continuing and social-distancing restrictions in…

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Independent Film Festival Boston

April 27, 2019

by Bob Sprague

This preview of the Independent Film Festival Boston by Tom Meek was originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. It’s April, spring is in the…

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2018 treats: The top-10 films of ’17

January 3, 2018

by Bob Sprague

This listing of the top-10 films is by Tom Meek and Allyson Johnson and was originally published in Cambridge Day, a YourArlington partner. A scene from ‘The…

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Opinion: Angry white men on film: Seven times cinema got to the Trump vote before us

November 19, 2016

by Bob Sprague

The following viewpoint about a series of films that offer insight into the President-elect Trump phenomena was written by Tom Meek, a film reviewer…

Reviews: ‘Story of Film’ underway, ‘Apocalypse Now: Final Cut’

Reviews: Brattle revives Lynch’s ‘Inland Empire’; Somerville’s ‘Hard Boiled’

Review: ‘Father Stu’: The passion of Wahlberg

Black History Month trio: ‘Living Dead,’ Brattle romances, ‘Mr. Chicken’

Review: ‘Nomadland’: Traveling stoically from job to job, and sometimes it’s cold and the van breaks down

Sheltering with ‘Dissident,’ ‘Blood from Stone,’ “Painted Bird’ …

Independent Film Festival Boston

2018 treats: The top-10 films of ’17

Opinion: Angry white men on film: Seven times cinema got to the Trump vote before us

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