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Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with a sublime coming-of-age odyssey and another masterpiece

Joyce Glasser reviews The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci) (November 30, 2018), Cert. 15, 188 min. Turkish producer/director/writer/editor (with his wife Ebru), Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Palme D’Or at the ...

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American mini-musical fails to do justice to The Little Match Girl

Robert Tanitch reviews Striking 12 at Union Theatre, London SE1 Striking 12, a mini-musical by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda with Rachel Sheinkin, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little ...

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A hopeful and moving documentary combining a motorcycle journey and Holocaust stories

Joyce Glasser reviews Back to Berlin (November 23, 2018), Cert. 12A, 75 min. That the release of Back to Berlin coincide with the end of a series of remembrance ceremonies associated with the end WWI ...

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Burke and Hare are one of the most famous double acts

Robert Tanitch reviews Burke and Hare at Jermyn Street Theatre, London SW1 Everybody knows Burke and Hare robbed graves and sold them to Dr Knox, the famous anatomist, in Edinburgh in 1828 – exc ...

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