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Powered by JustWatch. "The Emperor's Club" tells the story of a teacher who fixes the results of an academic competition and twice allows a well-connected student to get away with cheating. Because he privately tells the cheater he is a heel, the film presents him as a great educator, but he is correct when he tells that student: "I failed you."
Apr 11, 2022 · One of my favorite memories of Roger Ebert, my uncle, was when he reviewed the movie "The Joy Luck Club" in 1993. We saw how the Asian Culture was different in the 1930's and 1940's before the Revolution, wehich helped change the way we see Asian Culture today. Learning the importance of not just having family fun in coming together, but ...
Jan 26, 2024 · He’s a failed author who turned to teaching, which his wife, Beatrice, reminds him about repeatedly. Just a little bit drunk all day in her silk nighties, Dagmara Dominczyk is very much playing a saucy, blowsy type, but entertainingly so. But there’s a spikiness to her speech that the beautiful and wildly talented Cairo has, too.
Oct 7, 2022 · Lydia Tár’s world—conjured with incredible agility and grace and mystery by Field in his first feature film in 16 years—is one in which the near-impossible escape is attempted via music. Specifically classical music, and more specifically classical music that aspires to sublimity. Played with fierce and seamless commitment by Cate ...
Nov 17, 1996 · Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film. Hardcover – November 17, 1996. Thumbs up for the most lavish and entertaining anthology of writing on film ever, assembled by America's best known and most trusted movie critic. If going to the movies has been the twentieth century's most popular ...
- Roger Ebert
Mar 11, 2022 · Chaos reigns and life may only ever make sense in fleeting moments, but it’s those moments we should cherish. Moments of love and camaraderie. Sometimes they happen over time. Sometimes they happen all at once. This review was filed from the premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. The film opens on March 25th. Advertisement.
Nov 17, 2021 · String compositions twist and turn as sharply as the movie’s plot, like a jagged undercurrent pulling our emotions in certain directions. The sounds of sweet violins sour, while softer notes swell into intense waves. The changes are quick, a nod to the tense dynamics between the brothers, the widow, and her son.
