Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama "Tsotsi" resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. A foreign-language ...

A hardened young South African gang leader steals a woman's car -– then finds out her baby is in the back seat. So starts the South African film Tsotsi, which is up for an Academy Award for best ...

Tsotsi is a cold-blooded thug, until he shoots a mother and takes her baby. Then the story becomes -- depending on your view -- either an uplifting story of emotional redemption and rebirth or a ...

He may not have won the Super Bowl, but the 20-year-old South African actor is making a victory lap of sorts, thanks to his title role in "Tsotsi." Nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar and ...

This is DAY TO DAY. It's the weekend, dear listeners. There are new movies out to see. To help you pick and choose, we present our weekly digest of what critics are saying. This is compiled by the ...

In this week’s audio-only Summary Judgment, Mark Jordan Legan sums up how the critics feel about three new releases: Tsotsi, a South African drama nominated for a best foreign film Oscar; Running ...