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Jason Segel and Samara Weaving star in this gory home-invasion comedy directed by one of the members of the Lonely Island, Jorma Taccone.
Author: Beatrice Loayza
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‘Amrum’ Review: A Moral Awakening
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In this World War II-era coming-of-age drama, a young boy living on a remote German island questions his parents for the first time.
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‘You, Me & Tuscany’ Review: Love in the Italian Countryside
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Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page star in this fumbling romantic comedy, complete with vineyard romping, barrel racing and a sexy serenade.
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‘Living the Land’ Review: Rural China in Transition
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This drama follows a boy of 10, left in the care of relatives when his parents are lured to the city by the prospect of jobs created by a tech revolution.
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‘A Magnificent Life’ Review: An Era of Artistic Revolutions
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Sylvain Chomet (“The Triplets of Belleville”), directs this animated biopic of the filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, which revels in the sights and sounds of Provence.
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‘A Magnificent Life’ Review: An Era of Artistic Revolutions
The New York Times – Film:
Sylvain Chomet (“The Triplets of Belleville”), directs this animated biopic of the filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, which revels in the sights and sounds of Provence.
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‘Late Shift’ Review: Understaffed and Overworked
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Set in the cancer ward of a Swiss hospital, this antsy workplace thriller follows one nurse’s balancing act over the course of a shift.
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‘Protector’ Review: She Knows How to Give Life, and How to Take It
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Milla Jovovich plays a mother whose wrath is unleashed when her daughter is kidnapped in this brooding revenge thriller.
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At Berlin Film Festival, the Politics Are Onscreen, Too
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Some directors and stars at the Berlin Film Festival rejected a political view of cinema. But the movies there suggest that politics is broader than just activism.