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Reviewed By... Alden Graves

A sheltered young woman (Amber Tamblyn) struggles with the possibility that she is pregnant, unable to confide her fears in anyone, until she gives birth. When the infant dies, she is charged with manslaughter and undergoes counselling by a psychologist (Tilda Swinton), who is very ambivalent about her own pregnancy. Poignant, moving, and beautifully acted, especially by Ms. Tamblyn.

 

 
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Reviewed By... Alden Graves

A summer camp to indoctrinate impressionable children into the fundamentalist evangelical movement is the focus of this spellbinding, and oftentimes shocking, documentary. It is as much an indictment of a religious fervor that borders on fanaticism as it is an expose of a political agenda determined to alter one of the basic tenets of the American government: the separation of church and state.

 

 
Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Alden Graves

Underappreciated Robert Atman (Nashville, The Player, Gosford Park, A Prairie Home Companion) masterwork about a trio of bank robbers in the 1930s. Perfectly captures the desperate edge of those perilous times and the film's attention to period detail is evocative and extraordinary. Peopled with many members of the director's stock company of actors and featuring outstanding perfor... read more>>>

 

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