Menashe (2017)
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Menashe by Joshua Z Weinstein is a very human story set in a uniquely closed community that turns out to have universal appeal.
★★★★☆
Menashe by Joshua Z Weinstein is a very human story set in a uniquely closed community that turns out to have universal appeal.
★★★☆☆
Gary Sinyor’s The Unseen is a well-made, contemporary British thriller with an original slant.
★★★☆☆
Rampant with brash 1980s Brazilian political incorrectness, Daniel Rezende’s Bingo: The King of the Mornings is based on a true story of an actor’s downfall.
★★★★☆
Stronger, directed by David Gordon Green, stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a gruelling but inspirational portrait of a man rebuilding his life after the Boston Marathon bombing.
★★★★☆
Michael Haneke’s Happy End deconstructs the internal dynamics of a wealthy bourgeois family living a life oblivious to the human beings around them, with chilling results.
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Russian Film Week (RFW) returns for a second year – the biggest cross-cultural Russian event to take place outside Russia
★★★★☆
A gruesome serial killer thriller based on a disturbing true story, Árpád Sopsits’ Strangled reflects its post-revolution Hungarian setting.
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Dee Rees, in Netflix’s Mudbound adapted from Hillary Jordan’s novel, evokes a period and place in the Deep South where racial prejudice engulfs rural communities like a muddy swamp.
★★★★☆
A sharply cautionary tale about the dangers of social media, Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West is sharp, funny and very, very timely.
★★★★☆
A manic night of nonstop motion ensues as a small-time bank robber tries to free his brother in the Safdie brothers’ ironically titled thriller Good Time.
★★★★☆
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool by Paul McGuigan is a beautifully made adaptation of a true story that’s stranger than fiction
Shakirah Bourne’s A Caribbean Dream is a luscious retelling of Shakespeare’s comedy in a modern Barbados setting. A Caribbean Dream CAUTION: Here be spoilers…
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