Naturally, directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano have chosen similar material for their follow-up, “Samba.” In some ways, the new film is better than “The Intouchables.” And in ...

“Samba” divides its time between these two characters, flirting with the possibility of romance, while recognizing that such things are typically trickier than the movies make them out to b ...

With its brutal cops and undocumented immigrant workers trying to keep out of the authorities' way, Samba could easily have been made as a grim social-realist fable. Instead, the film-makers Eric ...