Night Train To Lisbon (2013)

Seeing an out from his existence as a live-alone, play-chess-alone Classics professor, a Swiss man uses the train tickets he finds in the coat of a woman he saved from killing herself to go to Lisbon where he infects even a Boys Own Adventure set in pre-Carnation Revolution Lisbon with his tediousness.

★★☆☆☆

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Boomerang (2015)

A man stirs up family tensions when he starts making inquiries into the death of his mother who died while he was young, in this French mystery and family drama filled with such likeable, warm main characters that it is impossible not to be enamoured with the mystery even as revelations move things closer and closer to melodrama.

★★★★☆

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Inglourious Basterds (2009)

In making Inglourious Basterds, a movie about a troupe of Nazi scalp hunters, Quentin Tarantino has clearly had so much fun that not even Nazi history, film-making and story-telling conventions, or even the expectation that he'd correctly spell the title, has restrained him, and despite the film's grave subject matter, that fun translates to the audience.

★★★★★

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