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Ty Burr
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Writer/film critic at tyburrswatchlist.com, WaPo. Ex-Boston Globe, EW. Pulitzer Finalist, 2017. Books at https://tinyurl.com/ytpycuh3. “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news” — Brecht. KanMu.74
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(FWIW, I'm showing the movie and leading a discussion on it at the West Newton Cinema Thursday night at 6:30. Come by if you're in the neighborhood.)
www.westnewtoncinema.com/movie/ty-bur... (sorry you have to look at my mug)
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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True NY chutzpah: Quoting Eugene V. Debs to start your victory speech.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Still unduly pleased with myself for writing this:
There’s a very good movie to made about the life of Dick Cheney, the powerful uber-Zelig of the GOP and the stealth architect of so many of our past and still-current disasters. “Vice” isn’t that movie. I’m not sure it’s a movie at all. If writer-director Adam McKay were to act out Cheney’s Wikipedia entry as a full-body interpretive dance while following every link and cutting to random GIFs and YouTube videos, you might have an approximation of what awaits you in the theater. This is a story that needs to be told, but McKay turns out to be precisely the wrong man to tell it. By comparison, Oliver Stone is a model of sober restraint.
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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So very sorry, Scout.
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM