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Alan A. Stone

Alan A. Stone (1929–2022) was Touroff–Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard Law School. Many of his film reviews are collected in Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life.

Articles

Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash.

Alan A. Stone

Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is lost in its own symbolism.

Alan A. Stone

In Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, the crossroads of despair and integrity.

Alan A. Stone

The Wonders subverts the typical female coming-of-age story.

Alan A. Stone
Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive
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Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline

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Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria

Alan A. Stone

Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu

Alan A. Stone
Even if the facts are wrong, the feelings in Selma are right.
Alan A. Stone

Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman.

Alan A. Stone

Richard Linklater's Boyhood

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Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida

Alan A. Stone
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