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Bailey receives an unfair trial, of course, and is stuffed away in prison. He is ironically saved from the nuclear holocaust by his own oppressors, the creators of the blast...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Almost Is Not Enough | 11/29/1997 | See Source »

...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Never underestimate Americans' indifference to the Bosnian holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE HOLIDAY STOCKING IS TOO FULL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...championed, number codes abounded. Sublime spirituality coexisted with "practical Kabbalah," the use of magic charms or amulets. Such aspects were profoundly embarrassing to the 19th century founders of Reform Judaism. Reform together with the similarly rationalist Conservative movement and modern Orthodoxy came to dominate American Judaism. After the Holocaust wiped out many of its key teachers, Jewish mysticism seemed destined to languish as a superstitious whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POP GOES THE KABBALAH | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...themes of a modern story of teenage angst with historical drama is doomed from the start, despite valiant efforts by Claire Danes and Jeanne Moreau to elevate the film above the listless script. I Love You, I Love You Not fails as an injudicious, offensive appropriation of the Holocaust...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: I Love You, I Love You Not | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

Moreau provides the only spark of genuine emotion in the film. Through her recollections of the Holocaust, she brings to life a rich and deeply introspective character who, in building her relationship with Daisy, overcomes her own fears in order to help relieve her granddaughter's. Though too many of her lines sink into platitudes, Moreau's Nana is the only character who seems to be really evolving throughout the film. Ultimately, she is the only one who finds anything resembling fulfillment...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Saving This So-Called Screenplay | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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