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GREEN BORDER: ASYLUM SEEKING SISYPHEAN

Poland doesn’t come out un-pummeled but Belarus is made look totally brutal, brutalised and bankrupt of any human empathy in Agnieszka Holland’s scathing, searing GREEN BORDER.

The so called “green border” of the title is the treacherous and swampy forest

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NO OTHER LAND: DEVASTATING DOCUMENTARY

Drama is conflict. Good drama is conflict with resolution. Without resolution you have the ongoing drama of the Middle East. Tragedy beyond measure.

NO OTHER LAND is a horror movie, a documentary of destruction and displacement. Does expulsion equal extermination?

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GOODRICH: GOOD, RICH

Good and rich in comedy, drama and pathos, GOODRICH is an unheralded feel good gem, another showcase for the incomparable Michael Keaton.

Keaton plays Andy Goodrich, the affable but flawed gallery owner whose life is upended when his wife and

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MEMORY: STRANGERS ON REFRAIN

Totally forgettable rendered memorable by a couple of remarkable performers, MEMORY has an infuriating yet beguiling quality.

Memory misplaced, memory mistaken, MEMORY takes what is remembered and dismembers it, a cracked mirror that distorts reflection, giving myriad perspective.

Jessica Chastain

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AND MRS: I THINK I LOVE IT

Can The Partridge Family usurp ABBA as the go to retro track for a rom com? AND MRS. might just do it. It begins with the perennial Partridge Family song,  I Think I Love You, and keeps it as a

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LEE: THE ETERNAL FRAME

Kate Winslett turns in another bravura performance in LEE.

The story begins in the South of France 1938, where model turned photographer, Lee Miller is vacationing with her dearest and closest friends, a bunch of artists, poets, and philosophers. She

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JANIS IAN: BREAKING SILENCE

Fascinating documentary of singer songwriter, Janis Ian, BREAKING SILENCE is just one of the highlights of this year’s Jewish Film Festival.

A child prodigy, Janis Ian was a fledgling teenager when she penned Society’s Child about mixed race relationships, the

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WEEKEND IN TAIPEI: TRANSPORTER LIGHT

An amusing stoush in a kitchen with inventive and imaginative fight choreography employing pots, pans, food, flame, knives, graters – everything including the kitchen sink- kick starts  WEEKEND IN TAIPEI, an East West crime story.

Following up, there’s an equally

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