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Created Dec 16, 2010 02:23AM PST • Updated Dec 16, 2010 02:23AM PST

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1st The Band's Visit
2007 Great 84 Points

a black comedy about a troupe of Egyptian martial musicians, the Alexandria Police Force Band, making a cultural exchange visit to Israel. A mispronunciation takes them to a flyspeck desert town with no amenities, where they are stuck overnight. The encounter with the locals introduce one kind of drama and irony; tensions within the troupe between the tired bureaucratic pride of the leader and the other musicians add a counter-harmony. Provincials all, they reach credibly across the many fissures separating the two sides, delivering a touching and realistic on…

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The Boy in the Stri...
  Jan 01, 2009 04:26PM PST
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A jarring, moving film showing how Germans handled the final solution from the inside, centered around the improbable t…

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The Band's Visit
  Jan 01, 2009 04:16PM PST
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Perfect 5.0

a black comedy about a troupe of Egyptian martial musicians, the Alexandria Police Force Band, making a cultural exchan…

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Really Great 4.5

Sasson Gabai nails the prideful middle-easterner, leveraging his experience of both Jewish and Arab culture to deliver …

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Israeli cinema has come into its own, as good as any non-hollywood foreign film quality.

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