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Oscar nominated Hany Abu-Assad’s entertaining true story about the Gaza refugee determined to be a pop-idol

Joyce Glasser reviews The Idol (August 12, 2016) The Idol is another story about a young person beating the odds to win a life-altering competition. We’ve seen films about competitions in sports, math ...

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The Oscar-nominated Turkish film that will leave you shattered but punching the air.

Joyce Glasser reviews Mustang (May13, 2016) Turkish-French co-writer/director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang might have lost out to Son of Saul at the Academy Awards, but it is an equally astonishing f ...

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