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Anthony Lane, the New Yorker's film critic, was just as impressed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's towering Das Leben der Anderen as I was. Lane: "If there is any justice, this year’s Academy Award for best foreign-language film will go to 'The Lives of Others,' a movie about a world in which there is no justice." [h/t Ed Philp]
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