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Tahar Rahim

Mary Magdalene movie review: the Gospel of Mary

Fri, Mar 16, 2018
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A fiercely feminist and proudly revisionist historical drama that offers a powerful and much-needed rebuke to modern Christianity. Enrapturingly beautiful and intensely emotional.

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movies I can’t wait to see at the 58th BFI London Film Festival

Thu, Sep 04, 2014
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LFF is a veritable orgy of cinema, and I love it. It’s exhausting, but I love it.

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Grand Central movie rating: yellow light

Fri, Jul 18, 2014
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French drama about nuclear workers is riveting when it focuses on the dangers of the job, less so when it devolves into a sexy working-class soap opera.

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female gazing at: Tahar Rahim

Wed, Mar 26, 2014
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If you don’t already know who French actor Tahar Rahim is, best to stay away, because he is too intense for you.

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The Past review: they are family

Wed, Mar 26, 2014
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A remarkably grounded French-Iranian drama about a broken family trying to mend; unexpectedly riveting, thanks in part to one of 2013’s best ensembles.

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based on a terrible true story (Our Children review)

Fri, May 10, 2013
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Harrowing and unsettling…

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Free Men (Les hommes libres) (review)

Fri, May 25, 2012
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I kept hoping to get caught up in this untold story of the French Resistance in more than a coolly intellectual way, but that never happened.

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Black Gold (aka Day of the Falcon) (review)

Wed, Feb 29, 2012
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There’s a lot of golden-age Hollywood in this tale of the earliest days, in the 1930s, of the Arab oil kingdoms. Some of it is just plain fun; some of it is cornball old-fashioned…

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A Prophet (Un prophète) (review)

Fri, Mar 26, 2010
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How a does a timid boy become a violent gangster? Like this.

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