THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “As her roommate Lisa prepares to move out of their apartment, Mara contemplates the end of an era. Furniture is moved, walls painted, cupboards built. Amid all the hustle and bustle, secret longings and desires come to the surface and coalesce around the roommates as well as around Lisa’s mother Astrid.”
4/11/22- Very good reviews for this drama from Germany. TRDB.
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DONBASS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news? Called “a darkly satirical omnibus of scathing vignettes” by the Washington Post, DONBASS serves as a crucial interpretation of the Russo-Ukrainian war, but the film is not, ultimately, a tale of one region or one conflict.”
4/10/2022. Good reviews for this foreign drama. TRDB.
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AMBULANCE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, decorated veteran Will Sharp (Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman, The Matrix Resurrections), desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t–his adoptive brother Danny.”
4/10/22- Fair reviews from the critics and good ones from audiences. TRDB.
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WEST SIDE STORY- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Love at first sight strikes when young Tony spots Maria at a high school dance in 1957 New York City. Their burgeoning romance helps to fuel the fire between the warring Jets and Sharks — two rival gangs.”
4/6/21- Excellent reviews for this classic. TRDB,
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ALINE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “For Aline Dieu, nothing in the world matters more than music, family and love. Her powerful and emotional voice captivates everyone who hears it, including successful manager Guy-Claude Kamar, who resolves to do everything in his power to make her a star.”
4/6/22- Fair reviews for this drama/biography. TRDB.
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GAGARINE- 2020. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Teenager Youri (gifted newcomer Alseni Bathily) has lived his whole life in the tight-knit community of Gagarine, even being named after the famed Russian cosmonaut who inaugurated it in 1963. From the heights of his apartment, the science wiz dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when plans to demolish his home are leaked, Youri joins the resistance, embarking on a mission to save Gagarine.”
4/4/22- Excellent reviews!! TRDB.
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THE ROSE MAKER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Eve is one of France’s greatest artisanal horticulturalists, but her rose business is business facing imminent bankruptcy or liquidation. When her secretary hires three inexperienced ex-convicts, they must team up to rescue the business in this verdant comedy.”
4/4/22- Excellent reviews for this French drama. TRDB.
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NITRAM- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Nitram (Caleb Landry-Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen (Essie Davis).”
4/3/22- Excellent reviews by the critics and fair ones from audiences. TRDB.
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WOOD AND WATER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Anke retires from her job at the church in a small town in the Black Forest. She looks forward to reuniting with her children over the summer holidays by the Baltic Sea, at a place where they used to live as a young family, and where she lived her best years.”
3/27/22- Excellent reviews for this German drama. TRDB.
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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.”
3/27/2022- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
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