FOOTNOTE - Review by Ann Lewinson
Joseph Cedar’s comedy about father and son Talmud scholars has so many loose threads you could take it in for shatnez testing. Read more>>
Ann Lewinson
Ann Lewinson is a film critic for the Boston Phoenix, the Kansas City Star and the Santa Fe Reporter, and was the film critic for the Hartford Advocate for four years. She has written about movies for The Independent, the Sundance Daily Insider, the Tribeca Film Festival catalogue and Willamette Week, classical music for Andante and Stagebill, and environmental activism for Biography. Her fiction has appeared in Agni, Hayden's Ferry Review, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's Special Projects Writers' Series and other publications. She studied filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, briefly worked as a sound editor, and has recently completed a novel. She is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Articles by Ann Lewinson
“DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX - Review by Ann Lewinson
This Lorax speaks for the trees — and SUVs. Read more>>
WANDERLUST - Review by Ann Lewinson
David Wain’s latest is an amusing recessionary comedy — until it loses its nerve. Read more>>
CORIOLANUS - Review by Ann Lewinson
Ralph Fiennes updates Shakespeare for our short-attention-span era. Read more>>
THIS MEANS WAR - Review by Ann Lewinson
A romantic comedy made by men who seem to have never met a woman, much less asked her what she wants. Read more>>
HAYWIRE - Review by Ann Lewinson
Steven Soderbergh’s latest — starring a women’s mixed martial arts champion — suggests that rumors of his retirement might not be premature. Read more>>
THE ARTIST - Review by Ann Lewinson
This charming, if slight, homage to silent movies looks at a transitional era from the perspective of our own. Read more>>
PINA - Review by Ann Lewinson
Wim Wender’s dynamic elegy to German choreographer Pina Bausch is a milestone in 3D filmmaking.
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CONTRABAND - Review by Ann Lewinson
A likable Mark Wahlberg and novel setting can’t save this rote heist thriller. Read more>>
GAINSBOURGH: A HEROIC LIFE - Review by Ann Lewinson
Cartoonist Joann Sfar brings visual wit to this biopic of the controversial French icon, but not much insight. Read more>>