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Included here are articles by, or conversations with, Kurosawa about his films and, often even more rewardingly, those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

For the two-plus hours that we are allowed to share in its protective glow, “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is time most rewardingly spent.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2021

But months later and in a more hopeful moment as many people are getting a chance to finally reconnect with loved ones, “How It Ends” plays differently and, perhaps, more rewardingly.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2021

To borrow Marianne Moore’s description of poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” Bynum offers her reader inventively landscaped, beautifully manicured gardens teeming with rewardingly warty toads.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2020

The touring Evan, Ben Levi Ross, possessed of a rewardingly supple voice and wounded mien of the kid picked last in gym class, proves a worthy inheritor of the role created by Platt.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2019