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2.5/4 |
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(1986) |
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"The general measure of audience enjoyment for a film based on Simon has everything to do with one's tolerance for the playwright."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(1983) |
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"While the movie is on target in terms of noble intent, so much about Yentl is self defeating, and the legendary ego of Streisand can safely be deemed the culprit."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A Serious Man sheds light on a series of uniquely Jewish challenges, from agunot and uniformly bad noses, to anti-Semitism and the eternal struggle to define "What Hashem wants from us?""
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"When Moshe encounters the burning bush and confronts a God who calls Himself I Am That I Am...it is almost as if the scene compels the audience to remove their shoes for holy ground is underfoot"
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"In a post The Godfather world, for Leone to even consider taking on an epically scoped New York gangster film took tremendous courage if not foolishness, Coppola had set the bar at an impossible height."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I got the feeling that shock, confusion, and even disgust greeted the misinformed Jewish patrons itching for rapture."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1977) |
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"One noticeable difference between Thunderbolt and its American counterparts is that American action heroes tend to be bigger than life and charismatic; the Israeli soldiers risking life and limb do so stoically, with an almost gloomy sense of compulsion a"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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4/4 |
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(1998) |
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"The film's title, which very well could have been a straightforward declaration prior to the war, becomes a source of twisted irony once we witness Guido pull down the grate outside his humble bookshop and the words JEWISH STORE are seen sprayed across th"
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Bailly intends to dissect the fragile psyche of a free spirited non-Jewish fashion model,but for me, the important subject of the film is Francois, a quasi-handsome Jewish veterinarian living in Paris, who has a latent but ongoing identity crisis."
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Goebbels would have found the depiction of Jews in Go For Zucker promising."
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"What The Unborn represents manages to be a thousand times more disturbing than anything Goyer captured with his pen or camera"
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Yakin's argument is presented with such blind rage and fury that his little film goes from sensitive and perceptive to sensational and scandal-mongering very quickly"
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(1927) |
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"The Jazz Singer is a shallow attempt by a powerful group of straying Jews to clear their consciences."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"If Jane Austen or a Brontė sister were inclined to revolve their tale of forbidden love and parlor room intrigue around a Jewish heroine, The Governess would undoubtedly resemble the result."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Pi is certainly about the burden of genius, but it very well may also be about mythical powers and faulty dogma in Judaism."
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2/4 |
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(1982) |
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"It shouldered its way into the popular consciousness, perhaps with a few concessions and a straining dramatic license, but nonetheless it remains a thoughtful, provocative engagement of legitimate issues relating to Judaism, the ancient, ever evolving rel"
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It is really a pleasure to watch a masterful actor like Al Pacino wring every nuance out of the multifarious character of Shylock."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1991) |
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"While in every other Holocaust film the Nazis are depicted as masterful at sniffing out and executing Jews, Perel dodges bullet after bullet with relative ease and immense good fortune."
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2/4 |
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(1960) |
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"The style of filmmaking is simply too polite and serene to carry the edgy, dangerous material of Uris's novel"
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For a small movie trying to shoulder its way into the summer m ix, it could have been a hidden gem; either the most touching film of the season or the most pleasantly silly."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Basically, with Watchmen, the filmmakers could not win."
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Much of it reminded me of those well-intentioned, ingenuously performed school Holocaust programs like Survivor and The Wall where the actors emote like it's a grand ole mitzvah."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"We must figure whether Beauvier's intentions are pure, whether her relentless pursuit of Father Flynn is rooted in virtue, fear, jealousy, or a troubling brew of all three."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"All the intense, pent up passion between Benjamin and Daisy which kept the film so taut and engrossing for an hour and a half is a mortifying drain once they unite and are free to express their devotion."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Revolutionary Road is content to be a powerful film about an ordinary troubled marriage; the kind taking place in a handful of houses on your block - perhaps even in your own."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Sean Penn must create something completely foreign to his understanding and sell it as if he felt Harvey Milk's struggle with every fiber of his being - and he does"
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Rourke is convincing and honest, marvelous and touching, but he's not required to channel emotions that linger far and away from the man he has become."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[The Reader] is positively goyish in its glassy eyed treatment of Jew killing, not that it aims to be anything more than an exercise in moral insurrection."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For all the nightmarish scenes conceived as a creepy cross between Burroughs and Weisel, we don't receive the cathartic satisfaction typically related to the dramatization of Jewish tragedy."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It is as if we are constantly reminded that we do not drink from the fountain of real wisdom, but rather, with Slumdog Millionaire, it is just a movie, that it is most assuredly written."
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Bangitout.com |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The only story that matters (in the larger sense) is that JCVD is a phenomenal achievement, and not despite the work of Van Damme, but thoroughly because of it."
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film and those like it are merely the reflection of ageing creative people in hopeless search for an elixir."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"While the blogs and talking heads seem to be wrong-headedly preoccupied with issues of semantics and race, what I found to be the most authentically disturbing is Tropic Thunder's use of war and soldiering as basis for levity."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[Though] The Dark Knight is a film one can respect, it is very difficult to enjoy."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"While the film is violent and decidedly tragic, the overall sensation of watching it is nothing you haven't experienced before with numerous films, from Death Warrant to Lock Up to Oz."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's not fair to ask the film to appeal to your somber, jaded adult sensitivities when the reason you fell in love with Indiana Jones in the first place was because it was the stuff of boyhood daydreams."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Kalin is a very brave and honest filmmaker (and plenty astute), but his subject matter argues that some stories need not be told."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Peled's film allows us to realize damaged men and women at a vital stage in life, trying to raise a young family while at the same time being plagued by memories of evil beyond words."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film clearly intends to skewer our country and its "corrupt", "foolhardy", "hypocritical", "self serving" policies in Iraq, and maybe many of the lacerations are well earned, but War, Inc. reeks of generic Hollywood liberal grandstanding."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The climax of the film, the actual evacuation process, is utterly stunning and unforgettable."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Refusenik does not so much capture the moment as it does educate, however, with material so compelling and inspiring, a thorough education serves."
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The cast performs gamely in this grim and gray affair, but with Stanford's words and dead end story, the actors never really stood a chance."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though Bartlett occasionally misfires, the trips and stumbles are made nearly irrelevant by the rampant innovativeness and ingenuity at hand."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film leaves us with the notion that music; sweet simple notes arranged in brilliant order, is one language where even Jews and Arabs can find harmony"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The beauty of Live and Become is found essentially in one very specific place - the relationship between Solomon and his mothers."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Praying with Lior is a tremendously moving and invigorating film, but Lior's love for davening is minimally responsible."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Salita needs to train and prepare like any other fighter looking to break an opponent's nose in the first round, but all the while he spars with an adversary familiar to us all."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The action and drama related to the taking of the girl and the unraveling of the mystery are inarguably engrossing, but sometimes twists and turns that work on the page are drained of impact once put to screen."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Before the Devil Knows Your Dead is an insightful, incisive lesson in potential. Every frame oozes desperation and there is always a plan being concocted."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"All the pieces combined feel like nothing more than a barrage of exquisitely crafted names"
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