There are moments of deadpan comedy and whimsy woven throughout writer/director Ben Sharrock’s outstanding drama, “Limbo,” but mostly this story about refugees on a fictional Scottish island is ...

We're in a fertile age of migration stories, for better (they need to be told) or worse (violence, greed and hard hearts have necessitated them at all). Up to the empathetic plate now: "Limbo," a ...

“A musician who doesn’t play music is dead” is an aphorism that gets mentioned several times in “Limbo,” but Syrian oud player Omar (Amir El-Masry, “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”) isn’t dead; he’s just ...

"I cannot be myself back home." I need to write about this film because it's the best film I've seen in 2021 so far, and I've been thinking about it all the time since watching. Limbo is a dark comedy ...

LONDON (AP) — Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry was reluctant to read the script of “Limbo.” He was concerned the film, about refugees waiting on a remote Scottish island for residency, would involve ...

In March, U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel announced potential plans to send asylum seekers to processing centers farther afield — the Isle of Man or even Gibraltar. The report also suggested using ...

Vikash Bhai (left) as Farhad and Amir El-Masry (right) as Omar in director Ben Sharrock's "Limbo." (Courtesy Focus Features) The characters in “Limbo” spend most of their days sitting around in ...

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So much happened in 2021. But did it? Credit...Justin J Wee for The New York Times Supported by By Dodai Stewart If you managed to stay up late, you probably already knew: The very first moments of ...