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Beijing Bicycle

Remakes are almost always a bad idea, but this new remake of Bicycle Thief (1948), Vittorio De Sica’s great classic of Italian neo-realism, turns out to be a triumph.

Beijing Bicycle

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James Bowman, our movie and culture critic, is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of Honor: A History and Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture, both published by Encounter Books.

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