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Review of Boxing Gym (2010)

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

[N]one of the boxing movie stereotypes -- Wiseman has found in Austin a very unusual boxing gym. . .for a kind of physical therapy…

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Review of Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 05 Nov 2010

Enchanting song-and-dance numbers burst onto the screen as full-fledged musical tours de force…

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Review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 05 Nov 2010

[M]ost deliciously realized is the fleshing out of the Cold Warriors in the Swedish intelligence service, whose plotting reaches into the hospital,…

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Review of Red Hill (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 05 Nov 2010

[C]ontemporary Western. . . in S. Australia . . .spins new suspense . . . in a familiar story…

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Review of Rachel (2012)

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

[B]est at . . .probing…

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Review of Budrus (2010)

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

Closely follows remarkable story, from many viewpoints, of [a] community . . . creat[ing] an unusual paradigm for nonviolent protest…

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Review of Freakonomics (2010)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 30 Sep 2010

A learning-is-fun . . .anthology . . .with more pluses than minuses, [it] is as entertaining as it's educational and enlightening…

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Review of On the Bowery (1957)

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

Fascinating for urban and film historians, but also a moving tribute to film's timeless power to illuminate social issues…

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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 Perpetuum Mobile (2009)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Sep 2010

An incisive and starkly satiric portrayal of a mother and her grown son living in a screw-or-be-screwed Mexico City…

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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 To the Sea (2010)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 12 Jul 2010

Without an obvious imposed narrative, Alamar's more a cinema vérité home movie than a documentary or a feature film, but one where you really…

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Review of I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 10 Jul 2010

[Claude] Miller is a master of oh-my-God moments that at first seem to come out of nowhere but have been carefully calibrated ..., and here…

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