The New York Times – Film:
Despite the insider access, a documentary about the president’s first year in office is short on intriguing tidbits.
Author: Nicolas Rapold
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‘Plan A’ Review: Seeking Vengeance for the Holocaust
The New York Times – Film:
Set in postwar Germany, this film dramatizes the true story of a group of Jewish survivors who sought revenge through an astonishing undercover operation.
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‘Hinterland’ Review: Murderers Among Us
The New York Times – Film:
Stefan Ruzowitzky’s film sets a serial-killer mystery in Vienna after the ravages of World War I and employs some dazzling blue-screen backdrops.
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‘I Didn’t See You There’ Review: A View From His Seat
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The filmmaker Reid Davenport, by turns pensive and irritated, takes viewers inside his life as a disabled person through footage shot entirely from his perspective.
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‘Vesper’ Review: Seeds of Hope
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This elegantly visualized dystopian fantasy envelops us in the world of a gifted girl fending for survival with her sickly father.
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‘Railway Children’ Review: A Nostalgia Trip, With Lessons
The New York Times – Film:
This winsome reboot of a British children’s classic, directed by Morgan Matthews, also addresses racial segregation in the armed forces during World War II.
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‘Four Winters’ Review: The Jewish Resistance
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The men and women in this densely story-filled documentary recount taking up arms as members of the Jewish resistance in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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‘Confess, Fletch’ Review: Solving a Crime, Eventually
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Jon Hamm bops along amiably enough as the carefree, wiseacre detective once played by Chevy Chase.
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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Wins Best Film at Venice Film Festival
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The director, Laura Poitras, praised Nan Goldin, the photographer and subject of her film, in her acceptance speech.