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Review of Much Loved (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Mar 2016

It begins with a dinner of couscous and cocaine and zips off to a wild party thrown by Arabs, setting a pace that rarely flags…

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Review of Rams (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 05 Feb 2016

Deceptively unassuming storytelling (understated acting and the rhythm of the long takes) gives way to a slow thaw, beguiling the viewer without…

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Review of Rabin, the Last Day (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 18 Jan 2016

Frighteningly relevant, insightful re-creation of days leading up to that murder is a sophisticated analysis of the ways and means of extremist…

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Review of Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2016)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Jan 2016

Strong evocation of the lesser-known bebop jazz scene in segregated L.A., and within San Quentin Prison and emphasis on his prodigious musical…

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Review of Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 Jan 2016

This powerful documentary puts faces and feelings onto distant politics and provides vital background on what's at stake for the people of Ukraine…

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Review of 99 Homes (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 31 Dec 2015

An electric melodrama ... [with] Andrew Garfield, in his best role so far, supported by an outstanding supporting cast…

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Review of Censored Voices (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 30 Dec 2015

Tropes of young men shocked to find even a short war is a bloody confused hell are not new, not from this war or others. . . Footage…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 16 Dec 2015

It makes lucid the themes and characters with a wide-ranging color palette and strong, internalized performances. And it sure beats CliffsNotes…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 16 Dec 2015

It makes lucid the themes and characters with a wide-ranging color palette and strong, internalized performances. And it sure beats CliffsNotes…

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Review of Youth (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 16 Dec 2015

Linear and allusive, indulging in luscious and trippy imagery, made by a director who conveys more visually than through dialogue…

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Review of Dreams Rewired (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 16 Dec 2015

The film really serves as a tribute to the then newfangled phenomenon of moving pictures…

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Review of Les Cowboys (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Dec 2015

Les Cowboys stays on focus, while packing in a lot of story…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 05 Dec 2015

The re-creation of the local atmosphere adds credibility to the star power…

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Review of Kingdom of Shadows (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Nov 2015

Documentary team's camera is most effective in recording tragic faces…

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Review of Nasty Baby (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 20 Nov 2015

Gentrifying neighborhoods are a timely target for satire. . .pitch-perfect at capturing . . .worst pettiness, condescension, and isolation…

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Review of In Jackson Heights (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 05 Nov 2015

Microcosm of everyday life in Queens neighborhood. . .on summer days…

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Review of I Am a Soldier (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 02 Nov 2015

[Director] Larivière's emotional hook, centered on an illegal puppy mill, is original and undeniably attention-getting…

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Review of Love (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 02 Nov 2015

In one way, the film lived up to the hype. As Blazing Saddles's Lily Von Shtupp would say, Oh, it's twue. It's twue. It's twue. It's twue…

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Review of Love (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 02 Nov 2015

In one way, the film lived up to the hype. As Blazing Saddles's Lily Von Shtupp would say, Oh, it's twue. It's twue. It's twue. It's twue…

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Review of Labyrinth of Lies (2014)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Oct 2015

Appeals to new generation by emphasizing the role of consciousness-raised youth in fictionalization of delayed justice…

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