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Shadows of Valiant Ancestors
The making of a film about defiant, largely unknown heroes became a deeply personal experience for the director....
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A Society in the Forest, Banding Together to Escape Persecution
Edward Zwick’s stiff, musclebound new movie tells the true story of the Bielski partisans, who fought the Nazis and rescued hundreds of Jews through the darkest years of war and genocide....
View Article‘Sleepless’ on Broadway
The Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romance that doesn’t involve its leading man leaping into a volcano or a product placement for AOL is planned for a Broadway adaptation. Variety reported that a musical version...
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The Anomie of the Boomers, Revisited
The 1980s drama “Thirtysomething,” which defined a generation of adults but also sparked plenty of criticism, will be released on DVD on Tuesday....
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Jewish History, Popcorn Included
In the modern world, including modern cinema, to broach the idea of Jewish identity is to invoke not one crisis but many....
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It’s the Relationships, Stupid
Edward Zwick’s new film, the romantic comedy (sort of) “Love and Other Drugs,” represents a departure from the epics he has become associated with....
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A Young Viagra Salesman Sees Lust Turn Into Love
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway star in a romantic comedy set in the dawning of the age of Viagra....
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With a Dentist’s Chair and a Chicken Mask, a Girl Can’t Say No
“About Last Night,” a raucously entertaining remake, follows the difficulties faced by two couples, one sensitive and well behaved, the other outrageously naughty....
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Review: ‘Pawn Sacrifice,’ Another Take on the Royal Game
Edward Zwick directs this film interpretation of the superpowers’ chess battle waged by Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1972....
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Review: Tom Cruise Has a Familiar Furrow in ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’
Mr. Cruise returns as this title character to fight menace in Edward Zwick’s film....
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