Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  Mira Nair

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2013

  Something consistent throughout the works of Mira Nair (a television-calibre director that stumbled into the art house world by tackling "i...

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  Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children

  Patrick Reed

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2013

  In 1993, the now-retired General, Roméo Dallaire, served as the force commander of UNAMIR, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda that tried...

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  The We and the I

  Michel Gondry

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2013

  If Kid 'n Play were to have a guest appearance on an extra special episode of A Different World, where the In Living Color fly girls came o...

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  Greetings from Tim Buckley

  Daniel Algrant

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2013

  Early in Daniel Algrant's conciliatory, deliberately earnest look at the days leading up to the 1991 tribute concert for Tim Buckley (Ben R...

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  Mud

  Jeff Nichols

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2013

  "A lot of junk comes down the river. Some of it can be worth of a lot of money after you clean it up, but a lot of it is just junk. You nee...

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  Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

  Arvin Chen

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2013

  At the center of Arvin Chen's vibrant, highly stylized Almodovar-adjacent look at the lives of two siblings and their respective romantic c...

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  The Details

  Jacob Aaron Estes

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2013

  Perhaps knowing that deconstructing the artifice and purported serenity of the middle-class suburban lifestyle—a world of block parti...

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  Cold Prey II

  Mats Stenberg

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2013

  When Cold Prey II opens, Jannicke (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), the sole-survivor of the first film, is wandering down a snow-covered highway with...