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Film Review: ‘Amreeka’

By CineVue 30 May 201111 December 2017

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★★★★☆ Cherien Dabis’ bitter-sweet Amreeka (2009) (Arabic for ‘America’) follows the fortunes of Muna (Nisreen Faour), a single, divorced mother, who lives in the West Bank with her teenage son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem). The opening scenes show Muna and her son having to endure regular military checkpoints on her daily Continue Reading

DVD Review: ‘Just Go With It’

By CineVue 30 May 201110 February 2018

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★★★☆☆ Just Go With It (2011) is everything you would want from a Sandler/Aniston flick. Two hours of mindless entertainment with a happy ending. If you rent the DVD and feel cheated because the cinematography wasn’t quite Lawrence of Arabia (1962) standard then you’re an idiot. You don’t buy a Continue Reading