movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: A heist movie that is gripping and badass, elegant and assured. You could ignore all the social-justice-warrior stuff and just enjoy this as a popcorn thriller. But what makes Widows so special is how it reexamines the genre’s clichés. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- 3 Days in Quiberon movie review: a star is torn
- Green Book movie review: a road frequently taken, but a lovely trip nevertheless (#LFF2018)
- Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) movie review: the dying isn’t easy (but the comedy is)
- Under the Wire documentary review: journalists under fire in Syria
- A Private War movie review: this is not fake news (#LFF2018)
- They Shall Not Grow Old documentary review: more museum exhibit than movie (#LFF2018)
- Widows movie review: the women left to clean up men’s messes (#LFF2018)
- Overlord movie review: underwhelmed
- The Grinch movie review: he’s not much of a mean one, actually
- The Front Runner movie review: when politics turned tabloid (#LFF2018)
- Prospect movie review: frontier sci-fi with a working-class vibe
- Peterloo movie review: it’s a battle just to get through it
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finest internets
- curated: Jodie Whittaker is getting paid the same as the male Doctors
- curated: contemplating ‘The Good Place’…
- curated: writers and musicians are being denied visas for professional visits to the UK
- curated: was an unidentified Cape Cop murder victim an extra in ‘Jaws’?
- curated: as long as Hollywood is dominated by white men…
- curated: racist science fiction and Donald Trump
- curated: vampire capitalists are killing journalism
- curated: NPR erases the work of a woman journalist… in a story about her work
- curated: the con artist impersonating the (few) powerful women of Hollywood
- curated: Brie Larson wants more diverse film critics; white dudes unhappy
- curated: even when women film critics exist, we’re ignored by gatekeepers
- curated: horrible “fans” hound Kelly Marie Tran off Instagram
- curated: Lando Calrissian, space vlogger
- curated: now I *really* want to see Lord & Miller’s Han Solo movie
- curated: ‘Show Dogs’ gets recut following complaints it helps pedophiles
- curated: has the Internet killed cultural criticism?
