Movie Review | 'Freedom Writers': To Ms. With Love: A Teacherâs Heart Fords a Social Divide
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In âFreedom Writersâ Hilary Swank uses neediness to fine effect in a film with a strong emotional tug and smartly laid foundation.
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âRiver: The Joni Letters,â by Herbie Hancock can be understood as a celebration of the academyâs more high-minded pop impulses.
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The documentary âBeyond Hatredâ is an example of a film whose style doesnât merely suit its story but amplifies its meanings.
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In the nationâs classrooms, middle class teachers increasingly encounter poor students, often with disastrous results. Ruby Payne says she has the secrets to help them cross the great divide.
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The performances of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards reveal a basic thematic divide.
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âThe Education of Ms. Groves,â a documentary that will be shown on the Sundance Channel as a half-hour series tonight through Friday, lays out the journey of this neophyte language-arts teacher as neatly as if it were a sentence to be diagramed.
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Walter Salles's stirring and warm-hearted film reconstructs a journey across South America taken by Ernesto Guevara before his career as a revolutionary.
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Director Mohit Suri has symbolically used the Islamic teachings of freedom and liberation through his characters Shivam, Reema Zaidi and Aliyah Hamid in his forthcoming film, Awarapan.
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The documentary "Eyes on the Prize," is lauded as the quintessential work on the civil rights movement, but don't expect to buy a new copy or watch it on PBS any time soon. Legally, that is.
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LOS ANGELES - One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days...
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Lisa Seeâs âPeony in Loveâ is a novel built on research about prettily oppressed 17th-century Chinese women who yearn for literacy and freedom.
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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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The struggle among conservatives to define their movement in the post-Bush era may be getting more attention these days, but liberal intellectuals and writers are doing some soul-searching of their own.
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Mahesh Bhatt's new film is a must watch.
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Movie actors making their directorial debuts often do it as a labor of love. For Michael Keaton, directing âThe Merry Gentlemanâ was a bit of a daredevil adventure.
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Inside the new classroom power struggle: what teachers say about pushy moms and dads who drive them crazy
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Writer and director Eric Nicholasâs latest film, âAlone With Her,â is a voyeuristic thriller that is fiendishly assured yet ultimately less than the sum of its parts.