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The Guardians (2017) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: The Guardians (2017)

Howard Schumann
Movie Reviews
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June 25, 2018

“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori (“It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country”)” — Wilfred Owen In his film “Of Gods and Men,” director Xavier Beauvois tells the story of seven Roman Catholic French Trappist monks kidnapped from their monastery in a village in Algeria by radical Islamists…

Timbuktu (2014) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: Timbuktu (2014)

Howard Schumann
Movie Reviews
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May 30, 2015

In the city of Timbuktu, the fundamentalist Islamist group Ansar Dine (“defenders of the faith”), wearing black flags to cover their faces, decimated shrines, Dogon wood sculptures, and World Heritage sites, considering them to be examples of idolatry, a sin in Islam. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Abderrahmane Sissako’s (“Bamako”) Timbuktu…

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