As I watched the movie, my loyalties kept shifting among the characters, and I wasn’t always sure where it was going – one of the highest compliments I can give any movie.
People forget that Eichmann spent about two years in Israel, as investigators interrogated him before the trial, during his trial, and in the period of appeals that followed the trial.
The movie tells the story of a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo, one of the cleanest cities in the world.
Miyazaki’s unique work is imaginative and filled with beautiful imagery, but his stories also have great emotional depth, usually from the point of view of children.
It’s a typically irreverent joke in a movie that is a mixture of a rom-com and a more serious look at how Israelis deal with prejudice and the past, which is now playing in theaters.
Irena’s Vow gives us a look into the life of the kind of person we all hope we would be if we found ourselves tested like this.
Were the narrator who tells the story in the framing device anyone other than the incomparable Helen Mirren, White Bird wouldn’t have worked nearly as well as it does.
Farewell Column, set about three years ago, tells the story of Karmi, a political columnist who has offended some very thuggish people with a column criticizing the Netanyahu government.
Luc Besson is a born storyteller and his films, including DogMan, are undeniably entertaining. He knows how to pick actors with great presence.
Recreating the East Village of decades ago will be fun for adult viewers, but not for the vast majority of children, so ignore how appealing this movie looks on the poster and don’t bring your kids.
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