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Review of Babai (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 18 Aug 2016

In astounding role reversal for a father and son made terrifically credible by young Maloku's towering debut performance, son is sure he has…

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Review of Cafard (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 18 Aug 2016

With latest in motion capture...distinctive characters [have] fictional depth, romance, political commentary, and humor in…

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Review of Lampedusa im Winter (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 18 Aug 2016

Won the locals' trust over four months there for revealing cinema verité…

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Review of Pete's Dragon (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 12 Aug 2016

While I think that the angry dragon's fire would singe his inappropriate fur, this new version is a pleasing, lovely-looking family film…

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Review of History's Future (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 11 Aug 2016

For all the high-concept structure and intellectual imagery, Tan keeps her focus on the individual…

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Review of P.S. Jerusalem (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for FF2 Media (39) on 11 Aug 2016

For all her politically correct talk about the occupation, apartheid, and Palestinian rights, Elon humanistically shows that a woman's separate…

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Review of Hooligan Sparrow (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for FF2 Media (39) on 11 Aug 2016

Like a heart-pounding thriller set in a paranoid conspiracy, [the activist] inspires [the director] to be even more determined to get her story…

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Review of Tempestad (2017)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for FF2 Media (39) on 11 Aug 2016

Uses deceptive beauty of travelogue to reveal psychological pervasiveness of fear and nightmares under what's visible for two women [who] are…

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Review of Almost Sunrise (2017)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 08 Aug 2016

Following them in intimate and captivating verité on their 2,700-mile…

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Review of Chapter & Verse (2017)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 08 Aug 2016

Passionately felt and enriched by authenticity in setting, characters, situations, conflicts and solutions…

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Review of The Crossing (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 08 Aug 2016

Syrian refugees desperately streaming from war, to hope in Europe, are seen unusually up close & personal from [boat] to landing, in person,…

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Review of Do Not Resist (2017)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 06 Aug 2016

Pointedly relevant directorial debut looks at the macho equipment, tactical, and training issues that have aggravated law enforcement's relationship…

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Review of Suited (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 06 Aug 2016

The uplifting triumph is the looks and smiles on their faces when they finally see their reflection in the mirror match how they feel inside…

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Review of Miles Ahead (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 06 Aug 2016

Comes across mostly as Comic Sketches of Miles, with the musical, beating heart of the film coming in the middle upon the late appearance of…

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Review of The BFG (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 29 Jun 2016

Retains delightful, child-like sense that parallel world of magical fantasy is possible with a smooth blending of animated and real figures…

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Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 16 Jun 2016

Gently entertaining…

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Review of Marshland (2014)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Maven's Nest (67) on 16 Jun 2016

Brilliant noir policier in a distinctive environment where the fraught political and economic circumstances hang over the solution to a shocking…

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Review of Tikkun (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Jun 2016

Prime reason to see artsy film is the B & W cinematography --slow, dark, ponderous, and beautiful looking with weird, mystical imagery (& long…

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Review of Germans & Jews - Eine neue Perspektive (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Jun 2016

Thoughtful wide-ranging discussion covers changing relationship between Jewish & German intellectuals since the Holocaust…

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Review of Spartacus & Cassandra (2014)

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

Growing up Roma (aka Gypsy). . .in strikingly intimate debut feature…

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