RECOMMENDED Italian movies about political divides are often delightfully unfathomable, yet the warm, engagingly measured “My Brother Is An Only Child” (Mio fratello è figlio unico), from the screenwriters (Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli) of the epic “The Best Of Youth” (2003) and director Daniele Luchetti, is both lucid and ambivalent in equal measure about the rifts between two brothers who come of age, leftist-vs.-fascist, in Italy’s tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. Luchetti has been quoted as saying he didn’t want to make a “political film” and it’s to his favor that he allows the actors to be warm and likable even when disagreeable in this extremely entertaining tale. 99m. (Ray Pride)
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