UPHEAVAL: THE JOURNEY OF MENACHEM BEGIN- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Jailed in a Soviet gulag before the war and scarred by loss in the Holocaust, Menachem Begin is remembered as one of Israel’s most democratic prime ministers for defending Jewish immigration and signing an historic peace accord with Egypt.”
12/3/22- Just 4 reviews for this documentary– 3 are very good and 1 is fair. TRDB.
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THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.”
11/30/22- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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THE CORRIDORS OF POWER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Political heavyweights help build a picture of how America has responded to reports of genocide, war crimes and mass atrocities as the only global superpower after the fall of the Soviet Union.”
11/27/22- Just 3 reviews and they are all excellent. TRDB.
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THE SWIMMERS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Based on a true story, THE SWIMMERS follows the journey from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.”
11/27/22- Fairly good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.”
11/27/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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WHITE NOISE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.”
11/27/22- Fair reviews from the critics and excellent ones from audiences. TRDB.
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BANTU MAMA- 11/23/22. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.”
11/23/22- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
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ACTUAL PEOPLE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A bare-boned independent drama with brief but meaningful touches of gentle comedy, Actual People is a poignant triumph, a simple but effective voyage into the mind of a young woman trying to find herself in a world that has somehow become hostile to those who refuse to find a place within its preconceived standards.”
11/23/22- Fair to good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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BAD AXE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.”
11/23/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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THE WONDER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The Irish Midlands, 1862 — a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harboring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or are there more ominous motives at work?”
11/23/22- Good reviews from the critics and fair ones from audiences. TRDB.
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