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In the Land of Pomegranates documentary review: is the Middle East fixable?

Sun, Mar 11, 2018
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The state of affairs in the Middle East may actually be thornier than it seems from afar: that is the position this brave, intimate perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to take.

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A Fantastic Woman movie review: the horror of grief denied

Fri, Mar 02, 2018
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A quiet yet resolute portrait of bravery and resilience in the face of unconscionable bigotry, and distressingly moving. Specific yet universal, and wonderfully human.

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November movie review: the woods are just trees, the trees are just wood

Fri, Feb 23, 2018
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An all-style and very-little-substance exercise in random oddity and weird imagery. Dispenses with engaging characters and revels in its own meaninglessness as if emptiness were deep and significant.

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The Cinema Travellers documentary review: moving pictures, under threat

Mon, Jan 22, 2018
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A marvelous film, so full of the wonder of movies, so melancholy about the changing cinema landscape, so hopeful that though the technology is changing, the love will endure.

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Attraction (Prityazhenie) movie review: when ET is dreamy

Fri, Jan 19, 2018
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It has a spectacular opening sequence, and features a few minor tweaks to alien-invasion tropes. But the teen romance at its center reduces this to a very inconsequential first contact.

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Menashe movie review: the unhappy nonconformist

Wed, Dec 13, 2017
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A bittersweet, deeply human tale, one with a documentary sense of discovery to its setting: a little seen, highly insular ultraorthodox Jewish community.

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The Fencer (Miekkailija) movie review: en garde against yourself

Thu, Nov 30, 2017
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The true story of an Estonian sports hero offers a lovely twist on a familiar tale. A cinematic triumph from a nation that’s been missing from the global film stage.

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Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge movie review: so hot she’s radioactive

Thu, Nov 23, 2017
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With more sexy baths than any movie about a male scientist has ever seen, this biopic undermines the battle Curie fought to be taken seriously that is depicted here.

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Faces Places (Visages, Villages) documentary review: art to the people

Mon, Oct 30, 2017
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Film legend Agnès Varda and photomuralist JR take us on a road-trip art project that is joyful, funny, and invites us to see the world through truly open eyes.

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#LFF2017: Blade of the Immortal, Gemini, Makala

Thu, Oct 26, 2017
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Quick takes from the now-wrapped 61st London Film Festival.

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