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FILM REVIEW: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’

Posted on July 22, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” is a spectacular fireworks show filled with exciting action but as a record of an iconic World War II event it falls short and as human drama it’s a damp squib. When … Continue reading →

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EDINBURGH FILM REVIEW: ‘The Edge of Love’

Posted on June 18, 2008 by admin

By Ray Bennett EDINBURGH — A poet, a warrior and their two lovers form a complicated quartet in John Maybury’s “The Edge of Love,” a story of wartime romance in which fidelity and trust are put to the strictest test. … Continue reading →

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Loach’s ‘Wind That Shakes the Barley’ takes New York

Posted on March 16, 2007 by admin

By Ray Bennett Fancy that, Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” a drama about the Irish troubles set in the 1920s, opens in New York just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The New York Times … Continue reading →

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