Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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PBS ‘Latinos Are Essential’: Who does the work and who pays
November 24, 2020The mainly young filmmakers and their mainly young subjects have gone beyond the confusion and drama of crisis. They do what so few films do: They capture portraits of working-class people at their jobs and illuminate...
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‘The Queen’s Gambit’: A different kind of superhero
November 18, 2020Tired of the formulaic diet of high-density superhero fat clogging our entertainment arteries?
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‘Trump: An American Dream’ TV series is a wakeup call
October 8, 2020Trump: An American Dream is a wakeup call, a warning against his kind of predatory capitalism and the political system that foisted this nightmare on our country.
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‘Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground’ on PBS on October 6
September 24, 2020Two-time Emmy nominee writer-director Bernardo Ruiz has cobbled together an impressive, entertaining hour-long montage of the current state of the Latino electorate.
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‘Five Days, Five Nights’: Flight to freedom from fascist Portugal
September 16, 2020Álvaro Cunhal had a little secret. It was a good thing that he did.
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‘Crash Landing on You’: An axis of evolution
September 8, 2020A romantic comedy about North Korea? The country that wants to bomb us back to the stone age?
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‘Epicentro’: Getting centered on Cuba in a new documentary film
August 31, 2020Epicentro is Sundance Award winner and Academy Award nominee Hubert Sauper’s vibrant, elegiac postcard from Cuba—its past, present and future.
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‘Building the American Dream’: A Texas wage-theft and heat-stroke nightmare
August 28, 2020Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his state’s recent building boom “The Texas Miracle.” But the workers who have actually done the building often find themselves engaged in a nightmare!
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