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Omar
Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad is no stranger to controversy. His 2008 film Paradise Now presented a sympathetic portrait of suicide bombers. His latest picture...
In Bloom
A little miracle has come out of Georgia, the former Soviet republic. It’s a film called In Bloom, written by Nana Ekvtimishvili, and directed...
The Past
One of my favorite movies from recent years was A Separation, an Iranian film about the breaking apart of a family that ended up...
Lucky 13
The best film of 2013 may have been something I didn’t see, or didn’t even have a chance to see. There’s a wealth of...
Nebraska
The difficulty of dealing with aging parents, and all the problems of growing old oneself—these can be painful subjects, and mainstream commercial movies generally...
The Invisible Woman
That the great English author Charles Dickens had a mistress during the last dozen years of his life was a well-kept secret only revealed...