Melvin Van Peebles 1932-2021
R.I.P. to the Godfather of Black American Cinema
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Watch List Digest 5/2/25
New Reviews: "Another Simple Favor," "The Surfer," "Words of War" 🔒
This week's reviews from the Washington Post, including one of the year's worst movies and a bio-drama of a hero.
"Sinners" and the Curse of Amnesia
Some belated thoughts on the year's most ambitious movie and what it asks of audiences.
Best Bets for Boston's Best Film Festival
(plus: New WaPo reviews of "On Swift Horses" and "The Legend of Ochi") I’ve been running around so much this week that I forgot to tell my local readers about this year’s edition – the 22nd – of the best little film fest in town, The