Bright Star is the work of Jane Campion, the director of the Academy Award-nominated The Piano, a beautiful film that nevertheless left me cold and unaffected. There was no such effect this time. Bright Star is a dazzling film and one of the most engrossing love stories in recent memory. In 1993, Campion became only [...]

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I’ve often said that we need fewer movies in which people fall in love and more in which we are introduced to characters already entrenched in devoted, complimentary relationships. Where is the movie that picks up after the romantic comedy ends? Away We Go is that movie, a beguiling dramedy both euphoric and heartbreaking. It’s [...]

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