Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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Hilton Obenzinger’s ‘Witness 2017-2020’: Witness for the prosecution
June 2, 2021'Witness 2017-2020' is a powerful work from the heart and mind, a chronicle of the Trump and Plague Years.
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‘Exterminate All the Brutes’: Heart of darkness, head of profit
May 3, 2021Twelve centuries of brutal inhumanity packed into four hours.
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‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’: The whole world is still watching
April 20, 2021The Trial of the Chicago 7 is live streaming on Netflix and can also be viewed on the big screen in some of the newly opened theaters.
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‘Coastal Elites’: Diary of the Plague Year
April 5, 2021It's the first excellent film that speaks to what we have been through as a society during the pandemic.
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‘The Present’: The future is the gift
March 31, 2021“The Present” is a thin slice of life, one day with the Palestinian Yusef (Saleh Bakri) as he attempts to buy an anniversary gift for his wife Noor (Mariam Basha).
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‘Rocks’: Just enough for the city
March 22, 2021Into the filmic world of interchangeable, comic book super-powered protagonists, Director Sarah Gavron has released “Rocks."
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Amy Poehler’s new film ‘Moxie’: Growing up female in 2020
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‘Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: 1946 racist police violence case gets fresh attention
March 10, 2021PBS program spotlights long-lost case of racist police violence.
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