Maybe Fatih Akin's "Soul Kitchen" shouldn't come as the joyous surprise that it does. Most of its ingredients can be found in his previous films: the humor and passion of "Head-On," the don't-give-a-damn daring of "The Edge Of Heaven," the phenomenal energy of the Istanbul music documentary "Across the Bridge." All the same, who knew this German-born Turkish filmmaker could...
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Three stories inform "The Tillman Story." In the first, promulgated by the government immediately after Pat Tillman's death six years ago, an American hero was cut down by Taliban gunfire during an ambush in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the second story, which emerged much later, the football star who had volunteered to become an army ranger was killed by a bizarre spasm of...
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