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  Rain 2001

  ★★★½ Added by Night miner

  First-time writer-director Christine Jeffs captures the destruction of a family with a blunt accuracy that never precludes a gift for the occasionally lyrical moment.

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  After This Our Exile 2006

  ★★★★ Added by Night miner

  Balance in tonality and range, specifically in terms of acting, is a tricky thing in films like these: there's always the risk of the slippery slope of cliche. But Tam understands equilibrium.

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  1917 2019

  ★★★★★ Added by Night miner

  Hard-hitting, immersive, and an impressive technical achievement, this film captures the trench warfare of World War I with raw, startling immediacy.

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  The 400 Blows 1959

  ★★★★★ Added by Night miner

  A seminal French New Wave film that offers an honest, sympathetic, and wholly heartbreaking observation of adolescence without trite nostalgia.