Meritocracy – what is it?
Mature Times reviews The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits The generally accepted definition of a meritocracy is “a society that is governed by people that are selected according to merit and not p ...
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An intriguing title and promising premise are underdeveloped in this self-indulgent film
Joyce Glasser reviews The Last Black Man in San Francisco (October 18, 2019), Cert. 15, 121 min. It is true that the black population of San Francisco has declined from 13.4% in 1970 to approximately ...
A worthy winner of this year’s London Film Festival
Joyce Glasser reviews Monos (Monkey) (October 25, 2019), Cert. 15, 102 min. Writer-director Alejandro Landes says that the ghosts of Colombia’s self-destructive FARC wars, ‘inspired me to shape the fi ...
Sarah Bolger is captivating as a Northern Ireland widow in this enjoyable, if familiar, thriller
Joyce Glasser reviews A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (October 25, 2019), Cert. 18, 95 min. As most people know, the big problem in Northern Ireland right now is the DUP warnings of civil unrest over the ...