EO- 2022- Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss.”
11/18/22- Very good reviews. TRDB.
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THE FABELMANS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.”
12/18/22- Excellent reviews from the critics and fair ones from audiences. TRDB.
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YOU RESEMBLE ME- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “YOU RESEMBLE ME tells the true story of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a woman who was falsely accused of being Europe’s first female suicide bomber. Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris.”
11/6/22- Very good reviews for this French drama. TRDB.
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CAUSEWAY- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “”Causeway” is an intimate portrait of a soldier struggling to adjust to her life after returning home to New Orleans.”
11/5/22- Fairly good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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VOODOO MACBETH- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater.”
10/27/22-Fair to good reviews.TRDB
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AFTERSUN- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.”
10/27/22- Excellent reviews by the critics and good ones from audiences. TRDB.
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THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN follows lifelong friends Pádraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Pádraic, aided by his sister Siobhán and troubled young islander Dominic, endeavours to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer.”
10/22/22- Excellent reviews from all. TRDB.
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THE SAME STORM- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “From writer/director Peter Hedges, The Same Storm is an intimate, emotional glimpse into the lives of twenty-four characters persevering over the spring and summer of 2020.”
10/20/22– Fair reviews from the critics. TRDB
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TILL- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes.” Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.”
10/20/22- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line : no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10.000 days later.”
10/9/22- Very good reviews for this Japanese drama. TRDB.
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