movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Breezy fun that sticks a shiv into Hollywood’s — and the larger culture’s — disdain for women. Wonderfully subtle comic performances from a great cast having a ball make Ocean’s Eight a perfectly suitable light diversion from the world right now. Read the review…
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