{
  "id": 17060982,
  "title": "‘Between Us’ Review: Estranged Teenagers Process Past Tragedy Through High School Theater in Fitfully Ambitious Japanese Drama",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/between-us-review-estranged-teenagers-process-past-tragedy-through",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-29T11:53:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/between-us-review-1236934055/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The lingering trauma shared by two middle-class families, once friendly but now estranged following a tragic camping incident, is finally addressed through the unlikely prism of a high-school drama club production in “Between Us,” Shingo Matsumura’s well-intentioned, yet only fitfully successful, exploration of unprocessed grief. The writer-director’s fourth feature film premieres as part of the…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}