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Rochelle Krich

‘Burial’ Unearths Small-Town Secrets

Toward the end of Nicholas Racz's quirky, quiet, noirish thriller, "The Burial Society," Sheldon Kasner, the film's protagonist but certainly not its hero, whines: "Why can't anything ever be easy for me?" It's a line Woody Allen might have used in "Take the Money and Run," but while Sheldon has elements of Allen's nebbish-turned-wannabe-thief, he is darker, more complex and far craftier. So is Racz's film about death and rebirth, real and metaphoric.

A Jaundiced Lens

An edgy moodiness pervades "Kadosh," Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai's jaundiced examination of haredi Jerusalem women oppressed by religious extremism.

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