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Gloria
Gloria, a new film from Chile, seemed top be such a simple story that I thought “Why should I see this?” until I finally...
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Saragossa Manuscript, a 1965 film from Poland directed by Wojciech Has, became something of a cult favorite among younger American moviegoers at the...
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...