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Front Row at the Movies: Dunkirk
Between May 26 and June 4, 1940, "The Miracle of Dunkirk” succeeded in evacuating more than 330,000 Allied soldiers by a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 boats. This rescue inspired Winston Churchill’s famous “We shall fight on the beaches” speech -- and director Christopher Nolan's epic film.
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Front Row at the Movies: Step
Take a blender and toss in “Hoop Dreams,” “Fame,” and “Stomp the Yard,” and you might get the new documentary, “Step.”
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Tropic Sprockets: An Inconvenient Sequel
"An Inconvenient Sequel" makes a life affirming and vital chapter to an immediate problem that requires our direct and careful attention,.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Glass Castle
Though one wishes for a bit more bohemianism and less bourbon, "The Glass Castle" is a lively, if stumbling recollection of childhood, bolstered by fine performances.
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Front Row at the Movies: An Inconvenient Sequel
A decade after Al Gore’s documentary called “An Inconvenient Truth” brought Climate Change to the attention of moviegoers, this follow-up film shows how much progress we’ve made toward an energy revolution.
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Tropic Sprockets: Detroit
"Detroit" is refreshingly uncompromising; it forces us to mindfully confront our racial demons not just as a country, but universally as humans.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Glass Castle
Memoirist Jeannette Walls says her life was "I had thought, a shameful story, one I’d hidden for years, a childhood filled with poverty, alcoholism and homelessness. But it was also one filled with joy, pride and deep love. One day, challenged by mother to ‘just tell the truth,’ I wrote the story.” Now, Hollywood tells it.
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Tropic Sprockets: Maudie
"Maudie" is an authentic story portraying the life of Maud and Everett Lewis with all of the pushes and pulls within their odd and often melancholic relationship; Sally Hawkins's Maud shines through the invariably gray environment, all color and heart.
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Front Row at the Movies: Detroit
Kathryn Bigelow (Oscar-winner for “The Hurt Locker”) directs with a sure hand, proving once again that she’s expert in choreographing violence. “Detroit” is a snapshot of injustice. But rather than a history lesson, it feels more like a horror movie.
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Front Row at the Movies: Afterimage
Renowned Polish painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski viewed art as “an individual way of seeing rather than rote reproduction of a collectively agreed-upon reality.” Legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda examines what happened when that view ran up against Stalinism.
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