Movie Review | 'Miriam': The Brutal Struggle for Survival
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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âNankingâ is a swift, incisive documentary about one of the lesser-known horrors of the 20th century.
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The films of Mira Nair examine the immigrantâs plight of what to carry from the old country, and what to leave behind.
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Well-acted, beautifully shot and broad and personal, âThe Motorcycle Diariesâ is nonetheless undermined in the end by a clunky search for meaning and depth that seems
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âLive-In Maid,â Jorge Gaggeroâs remarkably assured first film, examines the complicated relationship between an upper-class Buenos Aires woman and her housekeeper.
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There is plenty of sorrow to be found in âInto the Wild.â But though the filmâs structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.
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Women have suffered acute horrors â as the documentary âLumo,â to be shown tonight on PBS, quietly details â a consequence not only of the lawlessness that has plagued Congo.
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Two women reach out to each other from opposite sides of the socioeconomic divide in Jeffrey M. Togman's marvelously revealing documentary about the psychology of poverty.
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After Khel, which he directed for Suniel Shetty three years ago, thereÂs plenty of  ÂconfusionÂ in director Yusuf KhanÂs mind and life. And why not? ThatÂs the title of YusufÂs next film.
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Ariel Schulman is making a film about sex, violence, racism, teenage angst and also ballet, which to some sounds much more intimidating.
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The true story of RamÃ³n Sampedro, a quadriplegic activist fighting for the right to die, struggles to transcend the disease-of-the-week genre to which it belongs.
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Desperate to propel a plot when chemistry doesn&#39;t work, this sequel puts its heroine through the wringer. Female viewers may feel similarly abused.
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Sheâs nearly a century old, a grandmother and the subject of a new movie. But the woman who tried to save Anne Frank is filled with regrets.
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With the powerfully acted, vividly shot "Blood Diamond," director Edward Zwick takes an unflinching look at the brutality of the African diamond trade.
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Kirby Dick's feisty, intellectually engaging documentary tries to illuminate an aspect of moviemaking Â and moviegoing Â that is deliberately left in the dark.
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Ladder 49&quot; is a solid, old-fashioned fire-fighting melodrama. It&#39;s a string of sentimental snapshots of a firefighter&#39;s life told in flashback as he and his crew fight for his life in a towering inferno where he has been trapped.
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Death, beauty and the persistence of art are the vast topics addressed in Heddy Honigmannâs frustrating documentary âForever.â