Goodbye Solo
(Lionsgate, $27.98)
Director Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo is already one of the year’s standouts, said The Washington Post. This “moving tale” about a Senegalese cabdriver and his unlikely relationship with an elderly white Southern man is “driven by deep feeling and sensitivity.”
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Adventureland‘s Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart “make a pretty cute couple,” said the New York Daily News. Their romance drives this “charming” ’80s coming-of-age story. Director Greg Mottola’s soundtrack and cinematography perfectly capture the era.
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