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Review of I Called Him Morgan (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 24 Mar 2017

The director's patience over many years in meticulously putting all the elements together...beautifully recovers the memory and artistry of…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2017)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 20 Mar 2017

A busily sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears ...with three new songs...deserved PG rating...exhausting watching the film…

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Review of Frantz (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 18 Mar 2017

To deal with overwhelming grief-and guilt...elegiac in mostly black-and-white, the film has surprising resonance today, in a time of constant…

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Review of Out There (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 08 Feb 2017

Distinctively explores impact of US culture on Tokyo/Taiwan through fact /fiction, memory/future, nostalgia/hipness, color/B&W, in a dizzying…

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Review of A Model Family in a Model Home (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 08 Feb 2017

With art...historical references, drawings, photos and films from archives...wonderfully makes the cinematic connection between this past and…

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Review of Between Fences (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 05 Feb 2017

Humanistically captures each man's personality by convincing them they do have supportive allies in a country that used to have an idealistic…

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Review of Territorio (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 05 Feb 2017

Focus is still on people even in the beautiful locales more intimately and intensely than just a National Geographic photo spread...lets situations…

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Review of 20th Century Women (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Dec 2016

Trying to adjust to the times...It's possible they all have learned some lasting lessons in this preciously researched, suburban version of…

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Review of Fences (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 26 Dec 2016

Whets our appetite for when [more] of Wilson's plays receive this deserved treatment as a great playwright...to indelibly commit such rich…

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Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 13 Dec 2016

New diverse actors from around our world breathe new life into prequel that just entertainingly barely satisfactorily, repeats the tried and…

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Review of I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 13 Dec 2016

Along with reintroducing and reinterpreting Baldwin, the man and artist, for a new generation, Peck passionately conveys him as acutely relevant…

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Review of Moana (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 03 Dec 2016

Mines proto-Polynesian Oceania culture's carefully researched legends, myths and traditions to joyfully bring us a feisty new Hollywood teenage…

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Review of Two Trains Runnin' (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 02 Dec 2016

Equally and vividly re-creates the North to South paths of 2 idealistic American stories summer '64...2 blues legends found the same day...as…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 13 Oct 2016

Earnest and refreshing reminder that facts matter…

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Review of Denial (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 13 Oct 2016

Earnest and refreshing reminder that facts matter…

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Review of Queen of Katwe (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 23 Sep 2016

Triumphant celebration of mind of real girl in Africa with help of Pollyanna. . .Vividly filmed on location…

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Review of The Ruins of Lifta (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 22 Sep 2016

Though sometimes infuriatingly naïve and myopic, documentary finally succeeds by opening up some space for honest dialogue…

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Review of The Summer of Sangaile (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 19 Aug 2016

The female adolescent love story feels sensuously fresh…

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Review of Inside the Chinese Closet (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for FF2 Media (39) on 19 Aug 2016

Interviews…

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Review of Jackson (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for FF2 Media (39) on 19 Aug 2016

Goes more in-depth and 360 degrees around Mississippi's sole abortion clinic in best film on continuing conflicts after Supreme Court confirmed…

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