United States/United Kingdom/Qatar drama—A young Pakistani man, who becomes very successful in American business, is able to see through the worst of the Great American Dream and the greed of Wall Street and big corporations and returns to his native country and roots to become a leader and activist for his people. The film has a lot of good lines and truth and a noble character, played by Riz Ahmed. Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber.

German drama—In World War II the Polish people have to deal with the Nazi occupation and then the Russian occupation. The people are displaced, and families are torn apart. It is the story of two people who meet in a horrible concentration camp, fall in love and escape together, are separated again, remarried, have children, and find each other again 35 years later. It is a touching true story of courage and the cruelty of war and what it does to families, both emotionally and very ...
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Wow, what a fun movie.  Minnie Driver couldn't have been more sweet in her role as Grace Briggs.  The interplay between Marty O'Reilly (Carroll O'Connor) and his card-playing buddies who were all widowers was a treat to the memory circuits of how America used to be.  Oh, maybe the atmosphere of O'Reilly's Italian restaurant still exists somewhere in America, but I haven't seen it in all the places I've been in this country since my ...
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Drama

I could write a book on this movie. As a matter of fact, I already have. It's called The Divine New Order. But I will just comment on the main theme of the movie, which is about the cowardice and smallness of the husband, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and the all-too-obedient wife, who probably was the starseed (married to the new-soul husband) who gave up her dreams to be an actress for the sake of her husband, who wanted to become a 9-to-5 guy, buy the home with the ...
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Richard Jewell, a film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, was one of Clint Eastwood’s best. Paul Walter Hauser did a marvelous job of playing a real human being with a good heart, so good that people thought that he was a little crazed or dumb. But he was neither. He was just a nice guy. I had a cousin like him. He was also heavy, like this guy Richard. It’s a true-life film, based upon the bombing that took place in Atlanta in the Centennial arena, where Richard ...
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I missed this film myself and just saw it recently, but it's definitely a classic that will be a good film a thousand years from now. Tobey Maguire shows his acting abilities, starting off as a young boy in the Civil War and coming out a man after the war, being in a band of Missouri raiders. The characters have a southern warrior dignity and play those characters well. There is much loyalty between young men raised up together in Missouri, who side with the South against Jayhawkers, who side...
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With this film I would say that destiny is at work here, because the actor in the film, Brady Jandreau, plays himself after being discovered by a Chinese director and filmmaker, Chloe Zhao, in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In the film, as in true life, Brady is a horse whisperer and bronco rider who has an accident and can no longer bronco. The movie shows the life of a cowboy and does an excellent job in the psychology of what it is to be a cowboy, in every aspect of their ...
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