Movie Review #88 88th Academy Awards Live Action Shorts (2015)
Welcome to another
Movie Review
(I am sorry for this coming out so late)
Day One
A woman who is on her first day of working as an interpreter for the
United States Army is forced to deliver a baby for the wife of an enemy bomb maker.
Overall Grade-A-
Ave Maria
Five nuns living in the
West Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of
Israeli settlers breaks down outside the convent. Unable to use the telephone due to
Sabbath restrictions, the family needs help from the nuns, but the sisters' vow of silence requires them to work with their visitors to find an unorthodox solution.
Overall Grade-C-
Shok
In
Kosovo in
1998, two young boys are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear.
Soon, the choices they make threaten not only their friendship, but their families and their lives.
Overall Grade-A
Everything Will Be Okay
Michael, a divorced father devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks her up for their usual weekend together. At first it feels like a normal visit, but Lea soon realizes that something is different, and so begins a fateful journey.
Overall Grade-A+
Stutter
For a lonely typographer, an online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated. Now, however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about himself.
Overall Grade-A
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Watching