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The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) ☆☆(2/4) : A sweet but mellow cuisine conflict
“The Hundred-Foot Journey” is a sweet but mellow cuisine conflict which gets clumsily overcooked during its first half and then gets tediously undercooked during its second half. I like some ingredients of its main course, and it is surely … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, Family, Fast food restaurant, Father and son, Immigrant
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Compliance (2012) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Banality of Evil at a fast food restaurant
“Compliance” is a small one-situation drama which is simultaneously absurd, outrageous, horrifying, and disturbing in its cold depiction of dark human behaviors we are quite capable of if we are at the right place and the right time. It is … Continue reading
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