“Race” is a movie about personal victory and national guilt—neither Hitler nor Franklin Roosevelt ever shook Owens’s hand.
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Kindness meets conflict in ‘The Lady in the Van’
While ostensibly a comedy, “The Lady in the Van” is also a profoundly serious movie.
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The horror of ‘Room’ is closer to a documentary than a fantasy
What gives “Room” its originality and power is its vision of a mother and a child literally clinging together to each in a situation beyond our imagining.
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‘Spotlight’ revisits the investigation of sexual abuse.
“Spotlight,” in theaters nationwide, is a sensitive exploration of the ravages of sexual abuse upon an entire community.
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Back Stories: Examine the meaning of truth in politics and broadcast news.
Examine the meaning of truth in politics and broadcast news.
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‘Suffragette’ offers a reverent take on the women’s rights movement.
“Suffragette,” like all films of its kind—historical dramas about social injustice—are from what I like to call the “eat your vegetables because they’re good for you” school of cinema.
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More Than a Feeling: Two emotionally honest summer films
Two emotionally honest summer films
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Saved by Mercy: The grown-up message of ‘Little Boy’
The grown-up message of ‘Little Boy’