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  Miss Bala Review

  By Karina Longworth | Thu, January 19, 2012

  Mexico's submission for the Foreign-Language Film Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala literally spells out the destiny of its would-be beauty-queen heroine in its first shot, a collage of glamour magazine clippings on her bedroom wall built ar... More >

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  Kinyarwanda Review

  By Ernest Hardy | Thu, December 01, 2011

  One of the goals of writer-director Alrick Brown's Kinyarwanda, set in the midst of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is to remind us that ordinary human dramas continue unfolding against the backdrop of unthinkable horrors. So as machete-wielding madmen... More >

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  Le Havre Review

  By J. Hoberman | Thu, October 20, 2011

  Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre is something of a comeback for the Finnish filmmaker. His warmhearted comedy of underdog working-class solidarity, made with a mixed Finnish-French-Senegalese cast in the French port city Le Havre, was the most warmly rec... More >

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  Restless Review

  By Mark Holcomb | Thu, September 15, 2011

  Too morbid to be a crowd-pleaser à la Good Will Hunting but nowhere near as confrontationally inscrutable as Gerry, Gus Van Sant's latest, Restless — a middle-class hetero teen romance, no less — walks the line between mainstream sentimentality an... More >

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  We Were Here Review

  By Melissa Anderson | Thu, September 15, 2011

  A simple, powerful act of bearing witness, We Were Here is a sober reminder of the not-too-distant past, when gays were focused not on honeymoon plans but on keeping people alive. David Weissman's oral history of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco a... More >

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