Tyler Perry's sleeper hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) tapped into a gigantic African-American audience with its calculated mix of family melodrama, glossy romance, Christian uplift, and irreverent drag humor.
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James Marsh's documentary revisits the legendary stunt in which French wire walker Philippe Petit crossed between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in August 1974.
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In this 2011 French Canadian feature by Philippe Falardeau, a standard liberal tale about an inspirational teacher gradually deepens into a quiet study of how grief works its way through a community.
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Shot on Super 16-millimeter and set mainly inside a 15-mile radius, this fairy-tale period piece is Wes Anderson's most intimate film since Bottle Rocket (1996) and maybe his most deeply felt overall.
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