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Zagar shows how minor incidents in our lives leave lasting and profound impressions on us

Joyce Glasser reviews We the Animals (June 14, 2019), Cert. 15, 93 min. We the Animals is a beautifully made coming-of-age story from American filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar (In a Dream), cleverly and sensi ...

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Faultless delivery of polished, self-assured performances. This is a show that ticks all the boxes

Eileen Caiger Gray reviews Annie at Sheffield Lyceum (June 4th 2019) Full of feisty determination and sunny, inspirational optimism, little orphan Annie has been searching for her parents in shows all ...

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Green Book wins Oscar for Best Picture

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Green Book (Entertainment One). Thoroughly enjoyable though it is, many were surprised when it won the Oscar for Best Picture. An Italian-American nightclub boun ...

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Terence Rattigan’s wartime comic rigmarole is successfully revived

Robert Tanitch reviews While the Sun Shines at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey Terence Rattigan’s While the Sun Shines, a high-spirited wartime comedy, a companion piece to his RAF drama, Flare ...

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