MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Film round-up: September 4 2015
This week: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Ricki and the Flash, The Transporter Refuelled, American Ultra and Dope
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (12A), directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
4/5
DIVIDED into cheesy chapter headings, there’s nothing twee about this brutally funny and exquisitely written coming-of-age tale about a teenage lad forced to befriend a cancer-stricken classmate.
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