Category: reviews

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Carlos (Miniseries)

Directed by Olivier Assayas, Carlos is a 3-part miniseries that illustrates the rise and fall of terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal, played by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez.

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Carnage

Polanski’s Carnage is a dark comedy armed with some extremely sharp writing.

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Carrie (2013)

I read somewhere that this Carrie was going for a more faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s book, instead of a remake of Brian de Palma’s movie.

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Casa de mi Padre

Casa de mi Padre is the story of Armando Alvarez, a small-eyed with a somewhat impediment ranchero, whose relationship with his father reaches a low point when Armando’s little brother Raul arrives with his future wife, Sonia, with the plan of taking over Onza’s drug control zone.

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Case of Hana & Alice, The

Fresh of her mother’s divorce, Arisugawa Tetsuko hears about the mysterious murder of a student, and meets the peculiar shut-in girl named Hana with whom she’ll form a unique friendship of misheard words and quirky plans gone wrong.

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Cat in Paris, A

In the daytime, Dino catches lizards. At night, Dino becomes The Cat and helps Nico make a living by stealing.

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Caterpillar

Caterpillar tells the story of Shigeko Kurokawa and how her life is changed after her husband comes home from the second Sino-Japanese War as a mangled man, and it’s up to Shigeko to take care of him as the dutiful wife she is expected to be.

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Caught in the Web

After being diagnosed with advanced lymphatic cancer, beautiful hard-working Ye Lanqiu is caught in the nightmarish bus that will ruin hers and the lives of everyone that’s around her when she refuses to give her seat to an elder and is caught on camera.

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Celluloid Closet, The

Terrific documentary based on the 1981 (revised 1987) book of the same name by Vito Russo that chronicles the portrayal of the LGBT community in Hollywood from the silent era through the early 1990s.