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By Andrew Sarris 12/27/04 12:00am

A Bloody, Postcolonial Cleansing Chillingly Retold in Hotel Rwanda

Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda, from a screenplay by Keir Pearson and Mr. George, turns out to be the most truly inspiring movie of the year, even though it’s carved out of the most horrifying slice of recent history: the 1994 massacre of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu in Rwanda.

The film begins in an Read More

By Andrew Sarris 11/26/01 12:00am

Hometown Boy Returns To Topic of Hooking Up

Edward Burns’ Sidewalks of New York , from his own screenplay, features several stirring moments of the pre-9/11 World Trade Center standing bravely in the background of a cinéma vérité interview with Mr. Burns. This accidental recording of a sadly vanished past is alone almost worth the price of admission to this Manhattan roundelay of Read More

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A Bloody, Postcolonial Cleansing Chillingly Retold in Hotel Rwanda

Hometown Boy Returns To Topic of Hooking Up

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