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4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days

review by Douglas Messerli

"A testament to the millions of individuals who suffered and survived the bleak Communist regimes"

Adopting a family

review by Douglas Messerli

Confusing sexual issues in The Kids Are All Right and even more puzzling social relationships in Another Year

Ash to ash

review by Douglas Messerli

A simple and spectacularly beautiful film about Calabrian life whose only professional participant was a dog.

Beginnings and endings

review by Douglas Messerli

The Ghost Writer is visually stunning, excitingly scripted, and heighted by a well-crafted score with near perfect sound.

Blood of an innocent

review by Douglas Messerli

Del Toro negotiates a path between paternalistic and magic realities.

Cemetery of garbage

review by Douglas Messerli

An impressive, if rambling, look at the Neapolitan crime group Camorra in Gomorrah.

Crash and the self-indulgence of white America

review by Robert Jensen and Robert Wosnitzer

Crash is a white-supremacist movie.

The curious case of Benjamin Button

review by Douglas Messerli

A strange (and strangely redemptive) film...

The Duchess of Langeais

review by Douglas Messerli

Don't touch that axe...

Flags and letters

review by Douglas Messerli

"It appears, [Clint] Eastwood suggests, that a culture that prefers flags to letters, a culture which offers up symbols as opposed to simple human expression, is doomed to estrangement."