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“Ida” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Ida (2014; Pawel Pawlikowski) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes “Understated and Carefully Controlled” Nominated for Best Cinematography and winner of Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards, the bone-dry, black-and-white Ida is the fifth film from Polish writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski, but it’s just his second in the […]

“Timbuktu” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes

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Timbuktu (2014; Abderrahmane Sissako) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes This Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee from Mauritanian director Sissako (Bamako) looks at life in an African city forcibly placed under the rule of a new but brutal jihadist regime. Before your eyes glaze over and you start dreaming […]