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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.

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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

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Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu

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Even if the facts are wrong, the feelings in Selma are right.
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Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman.

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Richard Linklater's Boyhood

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Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida

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