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Headhunters—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • April 27, 2012 12:50 AM
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I can’t remember the last time a movie surprised me as much as 'Headhunters': not just its story twists and turns, which are considerable, but its continual stripping of character veneer and overall audaciousness left me breathless.
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More: Film Reviews, Foreign Films, Morten Tyldum, Lars Gudmstead, Ulf Ryberg, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aksel Hennie, Jo Nesbø

Monsieur Lazhar—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • April 13, 2012 12:55 AM
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The hype-meisters of moviedom have made it difficult to use words like “heartwarming” and “inspiring” without sounding like a huckster…but when you see a film as moving and well-wrought as 'Monsieur Lazhar', it’s hard to resist. Yet what I admire most about the picture, which was an Oscar nominee this year as Best Foreign Language Film, is its restraint.
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More: Film Reviews, Foreign Films

We Have A Pope—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • April 9, 2012 3:53 AM
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Given Nanni Moretti’s track record as writer, director, and actor, there is every reason to have high hopes for his latest effort, 'We Have a Pope'. One would presume that a behind-the-scenes look at the process of naming a new Pontiff would provide ample fodder for observational humor. Instead, the film focuses on the chosen man’s crisis of confidence. Since that man is played by the great Michel Piccoli, this idea, too, offers great promise.
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More: Film Reviews, Foreign Films, Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli

Footnote—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • March 9, 2012 12:30 AM
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Another of this year’s Best Foreign Language Film nominees, Footnote may not be as intense or soul-searching as A Separation or In Darkness, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t superior satisfying entertainment. Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar mines the richest vein in the world for his material: the quirks and foibles of human nature.
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More: Film Reviews, Foreign Films, The Oscars, Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Joseph Cedar

In Darkness—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • February 10, 2012 12:40 AM
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The latest in a long line of incredible-but-true stories from World War II turns out to be one of the best. In Darkness dramatizes the saga of a group of Jewish men, women and children who paid a sewer worker in the city of Lvov to hide them underground, little dreaming that they would spend more than a year in that dark, damp, environment.
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More: Film Reviews, David F. Shamoon, Agnieszka Holland, Robert Marshall, The Oscars, Foreign Films

Declaration Of War—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • February 2, 2012 6:02 PM
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It’s been decades since television created a genre that pundits labeled “disease-of-the-week” movies. Cable networks such as Lifetime have kept the form alive, because such stories are natural fodder for relatable drama, while medical TV shows have never gone out of style.
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More: Film Reviews, Indie Films, Foreign Films, Jérémie Elkaïm, Valérie Donzelli

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