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The Teacher’s Lounge - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Most of us can remember what it was like to be in grade school. There was always some Tommy likes Sally type of drama between pubescent boys and girls, but rarely were there incidents of any note that got the whole school on high alert. Most of those types of dramas are saved for the unfortunate circumstances when a child brought a weapon to school or there were accusations of sexual misconduct. Well, the new German film The Teacher’s Lounge explores the topic of a theft in a middle school that threatens to send the entirety of the school, teachers and admin as well as many of the students, into a tailspin. This film at just over a hour and a half flies by as the dominoes fall, one after the other, in a series of events that make up some of best drama you can find onscreen. While a school theft is nothing new, this film extracts every ounce of chaos from its premise, contemplating all angles an...

The Peasants - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 When it comes to paintings and art, I’m not a huge connoisseur. I can walk through an art gallery and appreciate most pieces from a technical level, but as far as anything I would purchase and own for my own personal enjoyment, most things I’m pretty indifferent to. A new animated film that’s being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics is The Peasants; and it is also the Polish submission to the Oscars this year. This breathtaking foreign language film is presented in a real life, oil painted animation style, each frame of it’s nearly two hour runtime is as gorgeous as most works you could find on display at any art gallery. It tells the story of a time when, you guessed it, peasants and small villages were the norm, sometime dating to the late 19th century, about a hundred and fifty years ago. The Polish peasants in our story and society in general at the time were held by a strong patriarchal culture...