foreign
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Las Acacias
Las Acacias, which won the award for best first feature at Cannes in 2011, shows how powerful simplicity...
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Kidnapped
Very rarely does a film start with so much promise and then go on to waste it all...
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Polisse
Polisse, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes last year, is a very hectic film. Subplots come and...
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Nobody Else But You
Nobody Else But You is a light neo-noir French thriller about a celebrity model that hides behind her...
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Rapt
Rapt is, if anything, a timely film. It’s been over three years since it was released in France...
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Sleepless Night
When I was 11 or 12 the local YMCA started hosting these overnight “lock-ins” where kids could go...
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The Double Hour
Some call The Double Hour a foreign art house thriller while I would lean slightly more toward film...
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Marianne
It’s hard to criticize a movie like Marianne considering its ambitions. Aside from a few surprises over the...
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Livide
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out if the new French film Livide is worth...
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Revanche
Revanche is a foreign thriller from director Gotz Spielmann which focuses heavily on the characters than it does...
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Volver
Volver could probably pass as a good Spanish soap opera. The film by talented director Pedro Almodóvar is...
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The Raid
The Raid: Redemption could be seen as a slaughterhouse more than an action movie. Calling the plot and...
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Broken Embraces
Broken Embraces is a foreign film from the highly acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar about passion and obsession....
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Miss Bala
Miss Bala is Spanish film about how much corruption the Mexican drug wars have. The storyline is engaging...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a French film based on a true story of an Elle...