November 11, 2016
Ceux qui font les revolutions (2016) *****
Full title: "Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau", meaning "Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves". This quote from a radical 18th-century French revolutionary leader Louis Antoine de Saint Just misleadingly suggests that this film warns about the dangers of compromise and moderation among the revolutionary avant-garde, but in reality it is a very effective, smart and compelling counterrevolutionary masterpiece that strongly denounces and ridicules far-left fanaticism. Made in French Canada in the aftermath of an unsuccessful student revolt, it's a very unflattering portrait of the contemporary political counterculture.
October 10, 2016
September 9, 2016
Sully (2016) ***
Director Clint Eastwood squeezes every ounce of suspense from an extremely well-publicized true story whose happy ending everyone knows.
13 Hours (2016) ***
Terrific action film about the attack against US diplomatic and intelligence bases in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Michael Bay's best film since "The Rock" (1996).
O.J. Made In America (2016) ***
Epic, Oscar-winning, 7-hour documentary not just about O.J. Simpson, but also about the history of race relations in Los Angeles going back to the 1940's, explaining how a largely African-American jury refused to convict him of murder despite overwhelming evidence.
Zootopia (2016) ***

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany Of Rosie Ming (2016) ***
A warm and witty animated feature by Ann Marie Fleming about a young Canadian poet who undergoes a life-changing experience when she attends a poetry festival in Iran.
The Skyjacker’s Tale (2016) ***
Ishmael Muslim Ali has been convicted of murdering eight people on a golf course in the US Virgin Islands. After years of trying to get his conviction overturned, he hijacked a plane and escaped to Cuba in 1984.
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