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Review: The Children Act

The Children Act tackles topics like religion vs. the state, freedom of choice, and holding on. It’s serious stuff. The brilliant Emma Thompson makes it worth watching as she plays a judge in the midst of two crises.

Review: Brooklyn

5 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / December 22, 2015 / Atonement, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Hanna, James DiGiacomo, Jim Broadbent, John Crowley, Julie Walters, Nick Hornby, Saoirse Ronan, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Brooklyn stars Saoirse Ronan in a visually lush story about the life of an Irish immigrant in the 1950s. Ronan played Eilis, a young woman who goes to Brooklyn in search of a better life. She arrives there with a

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