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Review of Waiting for Armageddon (2009)

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

Seems to think it's a new revelation about the last days for the Rest of Us if the visions of Christian evangelicals come true, and how they…

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Review of Serious Moonlight (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 06 Dec 2009

Small indie that has all the ingredients of a typical Hollywood Meg Ryan romantic comedy from the 1990s, including Meg Ryan, but lacks the…

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Review of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Nov 2009

Takes the woman's perspective to both mock and sympathize with the old-fashioned notion of The Great Man's Wife, but with a woefully underused…

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Review of Four Seasons Lodge (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 11 Nov 2009

A quietly revealing tribute to unique octogenarians: Holocaust survivors who have summered together for 25 years and the cinema vérité pioneer…

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Review of The Little Traitor (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Nov 2009

Poignant, child's view of the summer of 1947, just before the sun set on the Brit Empire in Jerusalem and everything changed, but does't catch…

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Review of Good Hair (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 03 Nov 2009

The Girlfriend, ya gotta see this movie…

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Review of Killing Kasztner (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 23 Oct 2009

Absorbing untangling of how history judges choices made in extreme circumstances…

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Review of Disgrace (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 11 Oct 2009

More convincing as an allegory, but faithful to Coetzee's acerbic, alternative view of S…

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Review of Sweetgrass (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Oct 2009

Extraordinary piece of visual anthropology that is as beautiful and involving as it is informative about a threatened way of life…

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Review of Bright Star (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Oct 2009

Sensitively, slowly explores the interplay between a living, breathing muse and an inspired artist…

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Review of Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 20 Aug 2009

Suspenseful thriller about divided loyalties and tensions of a double agent in his own home, informing on those he has known since childhood,…

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Review of It Might Get Loud (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 13 Aug 2009

[O]nly occasionally turns the volume up beyond fanboy adulation. . [and] the guitar gods never get off their thrones…

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Review of In the Loop (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 23 Jul 2009

Clever and laugh out loud funny, this hilarious political satire delights at skewering the very human foibles behind undiplomatic diplomacy…

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Review of Soul Power (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Jul 2009

A thrilling time machine that lets you travel to Zaire in 1974 to see legendary performers bringing it all back home…

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Review of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Jul 2009

Intro to the most famous Jewish mother of the 20th century and the auteur behind her, making a strong case beyond nostalgia for her positive…

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Review of Afghan Star (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 26 Jun 2009

Entertaining and pointed, reveals the cultural, political, and social power of an old-fashioned televised talent show in a country where voting…

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Review of Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 18 Jun 2009

While the rambling, repetitive look at his life off stage is unevenly edited, his music is gloriously heard and seamlessly presented to an…

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Review of $9.99 (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 18 Jun 2009

Stop-action animation of painted sculptures creates beautiful, full-bodied characters with bemused sophistication and tender charm, where the…

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Review of My Neighbor, My Killer (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 18 Jun 2009

An intimate, nuanced and engrossing look at the implementation of an indigenous, grassroots approach to judging man's inhumanity to man…

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Review of Séraphine (2008)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Jun 2009

Beyond a must for those interested in art and women's history are Moreau's brilliant performance, Brunet's luscious cinematography and Galasso's…

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