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Review of Leaves of Grass (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 22 Sep 2010

Many clichés in uneven and odd mix of guffaws and philosophical analysis…

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Review of Gasland (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 22 Sep 2010

Though becomes less interesting when it turns doctrinaire, personal angle and substantive investigation make it involving and entertaining…

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Review of Lovely, Still (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 10 Sep 2010

A couple . . . who can still prove that true love never dies--only if love can survive this heavy-handed dose of sentimentality landing on it…

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Review of White Wedding (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 02 Sep 2010

Standard ingredients of predictable nuptial nonsense are given an enjoyable new spin in contemporary, middle-class, multiracial, multilingual…

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Review of Highwater (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 26 Aug 2010

Less on the surfing and more on the entertainingly eccentric surfers, but narration can be as insufferable as it is informative, with superficial…

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Review of Peepli Live (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 14 Aug 2010

Broad, entertaining satire, with heartfelt pleas, on the difficulties for the farmers and those who try to help them…

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Review of Animal Kingdom (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 12 Aug 2010

A few fresh twists on the usual saga of an outlaw family violently imploding…

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Review of Enemies of the People (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Jul 2010

A powerful personal quest, the first film to show living perpetrators of genocide from the highest policymaker down through the administrator…

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Review of Spoken Word (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 23 Jul 2010

Moving poetry, very appealing actors, lovely landscape, and resonant music can't quite make up for the predictable family story and dialogue…

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Review of Racing Dreams (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Jul 2010

Revealing portrait of 3 very different young people intensely focused on being champions, and the impact of their determination on their devoted…

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Review of The Kids Are All Right (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 29 Jun 2010

Touchingly and amusingly treats the last summer home before college as just as fraught for families who have two moms and a sperm donor as…

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Review of Restrepo (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 24 Jun 2010

A you are there for civilians immeasurably enhances our understanding of the soldiers' point-of-view and toll in a frustrating war fought ridge…

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Review of Convention (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 04 Jun 2010

Dogged, but anti-climactic cinema vérité tribute to the increasingly irrelevant quadrennial political show…

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Review of The Cartel (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 15 Apr 2010

Forceful diatribe against public education in NJ that sometimes rises to the level of a useful and colorful, if noisy and slanted, case study…

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Review of When You're Strange (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 10 Apr 2010

Striking visuals are essential viewing for any rock 'n' roll historian, let alone a fan of the Doors, but Depp's narration portentously accents…

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Review of Greenberg (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 27 Mar 2010

It is always difficult to care for a film with a central character who is whiney, self-centered, and pathetic…

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Review of October Country (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 12 Feb 2010

Rare opportunity to hear frankly from a real family recovering from bad choices who have tough decisions to face in a beautiful, chronically…

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Review of A Serious Man (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Feb 2010

The Coens' creatively reinterpret the American Jewish experience in a cautionary folk tale with very amusing complications held together by…

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Review of Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 23 Jan 2010

Showcases Cohen's power as a tousled, youthful troubadour and storyteller for fans and those interested in seeing a 1970 moment forever preserved…

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Review of Mary and Max (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 15 Jan 2010

Mary and Max share loneliness, souvenirs, and a cock-eyed optimism to survive their two eccentric claymation, stop-action animation worlds…

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