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It's a risky proposition for any artist (director, author, etc.) to humanize a terrorist. In an era when many things have been reduced to black-and-white, the word "terrorist" has become synonymous with "evil." And evil can only be demonized. Becau...

With a mostly female cast and a poetic title, it might be easy to assume that Paradise Road is a 1997 version of Mike Newell's effervescent Enchanted April. However, apart from those stated similarities, there's little to connect the two films. ...

Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodovar’s 15th movie since exploding onto the international scene with Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, is two movies crammed into one and both suffer at least a little by having to share time with the other. ...

Paranoid Park is a rare breed: a movie about teenagers in which the characters talk like real teenagers, act like real teenagers, and are played by real teenagers. The difference between what's presented in this production compared to what we're u...

Pariah is obviously heartfelt, and is clearly a subject close to writer/director Dee Rees' heart; this is a remake/expansion upon a 2007 short film she made (with most of the same cast). The movie boasts an honest, unfettered performance by Adepero...

The characters forming the framework of Paris could live and breathe in any city across the world, but the location in which Cédric Klapisch's tale unwinds is integral to the fabric of the movie. Like Woody Allen and New York, Klapisch allows his...

Sally Potter’s quirky The Party owes a lot to a generation’s worth of French “gathering” films in which a bunch of characters come together for dinner (or something similar) and all hell breaks loose. Commonalities among these films in...

The realities that human beings create around themselves are, by their nature, fragile things – some more fragile than others. In her directorial debut, actress Rebecca Hall addresses the malleability of identity via her adaptation of Nella ...

The story of Joan of Arc (properly Jeanne d'Arc) has been a staple of the cinema since the medium was invented. In fact, due to the canonization of Joan in 1920, her tale was more popular in the early days of movies than it has been in recent time...

There are so many ancillary issues surrounding the release of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (née The Passion) that they threaten to dwarf the 127-minute movie that lies at the maelstrom's epicenter. (The controversy, whether real, concoc...