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Article: `Kite Runner' won't lift spirits.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- December 14, 2007
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Byline: JAMES VERNIERE
"THE KITE RUNNER"
Rated PG. In Dari with and English with subtitles. and English. At AMC Loews Boston Common, Kendall Square and Ebassy Embassy Cineams. cinemas .
Grade: B
Angled as a feel-good film about the Middle East, Marc Forster's "The Kite Runner" is merely unsatisfying instead of depressing. Based on the beloved 2004 bestseller by Khaled Hosseini, it is a tale of blood brothers separated by class and ethnicity, and begins with a phone call and a flashback, taking us to the protagonists' shared childhood in Afghanistan.
Amir (Khalid Abdalla) is a successful writer living in San Francisco in 2000 when the phone rings, ...