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Film reviews: New releases for Sept. 18
Resident Evil; Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom; The Weight; If I Go Will They Miss Me; Filipiñana; American Doctor
American Doctor **1/2 I can understand the temptation for director Poh Si Teng to provide a more expansive approach in profiling American medical professionals choosing to work in the war zone of Gaza; I’m just not convinced that approach works as filmmaking.
Three doctors are at the center of this profile—North Carolina-based orthopedist Mark Perlmutter; California trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa; and Chicago-based Thaer Ahmad—which focuses on the period of the all-too-brief March 2025 cease-fire, with the three doctors returning (or in Ahmad’s case, trying to return) to provide assistance after…
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