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Donald J. Levit

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Biography:

Donald J. Levit is a free-lance writer with a B.A. from Duke and a Ph. D. from Chicago. Although born in Nashville and raised there and in Brooklyn, he has lived in many other places in the U.S. He also resided for a time in the Caribbean and, for twenty-two years, in Spain. Dr. Levit now calls New York City his home.

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Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Face (2002) 63% EDIT “Too slight in realization and trite in characterization to work as it might have.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Mar 13, 2021 Full Review EDIT “Too slight in realization and trite in characterization to work as it might have.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Oct 20, 2018 Full Review The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble (2015) 85% EDIT “This documentary celebrates the soul and sound of music and its celebrants who are here not for the money.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Jun 10, 2016 Full Review Genius (2016) 51% EDIT “'Genius' scores for near monochromatic visualization of Depression era New York and New Canaan, the daring red of a woman's hat standing out in a drizzly male world out of a 1934 photograph.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Jun 9, 2016 Full Review The Big Short (2015) 89% EDIT “If spectators felt they did not grasp what happened with banks, stocks, and mortgages to crash the world economy, 'The Big Short' will leave them only deeper in debt and doubt.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 29, 2016 Full Review The Witness (2015) 90% EDIT “The film could not have failed to flesh Kitty Genovese out beyond a number, a statistic, that last night alive, through grainy home movies and memories fifty years later.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 28, 2016 Full Review Saint Joan (1957) 25% EDIT “The endless talk is of institution vs. individual, Church vs. the girl's "heretical" voices-visions, France vs. Burgundy vs. England, at the molasses pace of a celluloid lecture.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 22, 2016 Full Review Nasser (2015) EDIT “This enthralling overview is as good as one can hope for.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 20, 2016 Full Review Black Girl (1966) 94% EDIT “'Black Girl' brought Ousmane Sembne to international cinema prominence.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 16, 2016 Full Review Weiner (2016) 96% EDIT “Non-judgmental although inviting viewer verdict, 'Weiner' traces with humor a scandal that showcases foolishness, bad taste, idealism, cynicism, ethno-religious animosity, and the media obscenity of popular culture.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 14, 2016 Full Review Concussion (2015) 58% EDIT “Even as 'Concussion' clouds the hard-core problem with soft side issues, it is a best step so far in the right direction.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 13, 2016 Full Review Belladonna of Sadness (1973) 90% EDIT “With enhancement from adventurous but subtle jazz by Masahiko Satoh, the experience is visually and aurally memorable.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews May 1, 2016 Full Review My Darling Clementine (1946) 100% EDIT “If less than its outsized reputation, this Western is still a fun view, particularly in Joe MacDonald's austere camerawork in Monument Valley.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Apr 29, 2016 Full Review Tale of Tales (2015) 84% EDIT “Playing against type and expectation, the film intrigues and, as a bonus, entertains.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Apr 21, 2016 Full Review Max Rose (2013) 38% EDIT “A rare appreciation of age and ageing, of loss, and of lost and found and of love.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Apr 16, 2016 Full Review Stray Dog (1949) 100% EDIT “Over the years, this competent but routine if visually effective detective flick has frequently been styled an early gem.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Apr 12, 2016 Full Review Green Room (2015) 90% EDIT “Good or bad depends on whether one cares to watch such raw hysterical darkness, and whether it is worth watching. Against the tide, this voice crying in the wilderness says, no, it isn't.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Apr 11, 2016 Full Review Neon Bull (2015) 88% EDIT “'Neon Bull' avoids cliché as well as editorializing comment, and thus approaches to unadorned realism.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Apr 7, 2016 Full Review Evolution (2015) 83% EDIT “In its dystopia which some viewers may consider a utopia, atmosphere and dread reign, too little is explained, and the coldness of story makes for aloof cinema.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Mar 31, 2016 Full Review The Good Earth (1937) 95% EDIT “In source novel and film, simplicity, family, and hard work are the pillars.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Mar 25, 2016 Full Review Dancehall Queen (1997) EDIT “The joyful sensuality of the soundtrack and dancers is irresistible, the thin-ish characters are comic or villainous but winning, and the no-frills borderline crudity fits and intensifies the whole.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Mar 23, 2016 Full Review White Lies (2013) 100% EDIT “Showcases a triangle of strong female performances, impressive cinematography and music.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Mar 18, 2016 Full Review The Toll Gate (1920) EDIT “Fact and/or fiction, William S. Hart's Wild West exerts an inexorable pull on the national, and international, psyche.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Mar 12, 2016 Full Review The Hateful Eight (2015) 74% EDIT “Scenes do not gel into a whole, nor do characters compel; suspense is absent, and early parody and irony have given way to out-and-out torture porn.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Feb 24, 2016 Full Review Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 86% EDIT “Today the stellar cast comes across as overacting, mugging into predictable pratfalls, blustering obtuseness and telegraphed laff lines.” – ReelTalk Movie Reviews Feb 22, 2016 Full Review
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