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Waltz with Bashir (2008) *****

Horrifyingly honest. What I loved about this movie, unlike many other war-related films, is that it expresses no judgment, no big statements; the film itself is the statement, and one can read it in any way that is right for that viewer.

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Nowhere in Africa (2001) ****

A sensitive German film about the Holocaust and WWII, told from a different angle. It tells the story of a German Jewish family that escaped to Kenya during WWII, fleeing the Nazis and ending up running a farm.

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Greenberg (2010) ***

If the motto of many Hitchcock movies is placing an ordinary person in unordinary circumstances, then Baumbach may be the backward spelling of Hitchcock… This is to say that the main characters in the few Baumbach films I had a chance to see, exemplify extremes of character, of various types, placed, mostly, in the most ordinary situations. Greenberg is no different.

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Off The Map (2003) ****

Painted in slow long brushstrokes, assembled from a storyline that can appear jumpy at times, superbly acted, and steadily directed, Off The Map tells the story of a somewhat eccentric family that lives, as the film’s title suggests, in partial isolation from the outside world.

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The Messenger (2009) ****

In Sophocles’ Antigone it is said that "No one loves the messenger who is the bearer of bad news." Oren Moverman’s film could not have expressed this better, suited to our times. 

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Foyle's War [TV] (UK, 2001-2010) *****

An excellent British detective drama, set up during WWII in Hastings, England, where Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, played superbly by Michael Kitchen, attempts to solves various crimes. The mysteries, much in Agatha Christie’s style, focus on crimes committed by profiteers, trying to take advantage of the confusion the war has created, by people with political agenda and by a host of other ill-intended folks.

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    I agree about the relationship with Logan and Charles - added a lot of depth, especially with the next...

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    such great performers - would have expected more of.... very disappointing to hear....

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    Stunned. Speechless. This is a powerful movie. Its objectivity and lack of judgment IS its power, and...

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    Special effects are more than ever present even in drama movies, its almost normal that an action thriller...

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    wont bother then

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