Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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‘Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal’
March 25, 2024There is much to be learned from the most calamitous environmental disaster in American History—so far.
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‘Perfect Days’: Cleaning the toilets of Tokyo
March 15, 2024What is life for? How do you spend the brief time that we have on earth? What makes you happy? Will your work make you free?
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‘The Invisible Shield’: Public health’s unseen (and underfunded) battle to save lives
March 5, 2024Catastrophe has always been the driving force behind the development of public health. PBS series ‘The Invisible Shield’ tells the tale.
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‘Killing It’: Before it kills us!
February 8, 2024One of the most trenchant recent critiques of late capitalism is Killing It, a droll television comedy show about killing Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.
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‘Poor Things’: Don’t start the Revolution without me!
January 24, 2024Could it be that the very best film of 2023 is actually a sexual and revolutionary tract?!
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‘Nazi Town, USA’: Not far from here
January 4, 2024Peter Yost’s film reminds us about the motives and consequences of those who proclaim they want to Make America Great Again.
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‘A Murder at the End of the World’: The big chill
January 3, 2024A clear-eyed look at how the structure of modern wealth and corporate power contributes to annihilation, rather than solving the bleakest of futures.
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‘Rye Lane’: A rom com with aplomb!
December 11, 2023The film’s multicultural and working-class characters are smart, self-aware to a fault, but subject to the same emotional relationship turbulence as Caucasian and middle-class couples.
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