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Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: “Nomadland” Reminds Us It’s Possible to Thrive in an Unconventional Community What to see and skip while streaming. (20th Century Studios)
The Rider (2017) and
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), both focused on Native American reservation culture, and she now sets her sights on documenting the lives of older Americans who travel in campers across the country in search of employment. The result is an awe-inspiring, dexterous hybrid of impromptu documentary and scripted drama, of nature and nurture, of ethos and pathos.
In the nastiest scene in
The White Tiger, several roosters are decapitated. The roosters in the coop smell the blood from above, says Balram (Adarsh Gourav). Yet they do not rebel. The very same thing is done with human beings in this country. That may be true, but Balram a poor man from a village in India is determined to fly the coop.
The White Tiger is the story of how he becomes a driver for a cruel and callow businessman (Rajkummar Rao) and eventually transcends poverty and notoriety to become a princely entrepreneur. Director Ramin Bahrani (who adapted the film from Aravind Adiga s 2008 novel) has named
Your Weekly Roundup of New Movies: A Mall Nostalgia Doc and Two Contenders for Best International Feature at This Year s Oscars wweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.