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Year: 2016

London photos: neon birdcage at Lumiere London

Tue, Jan 19, 2016
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This past weekend, London played host to an absolutely marvelous festival of lights…

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London photos: impromptu Alan Rickman memorial

Mon, Jan 18, 2016
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Fans have taken over a spot near Platform 9 3/4 in King’s Cross station to memorialize the actor.

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Camp X-Ray movie review: all of us behind bars

Mon, Jan 18, 2016
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Superbly unsettling. Pointedly highlights how incarceration dehumanizes inmate and guard alike. Kristen Stewart’s steeliness is perfectly suited to its ironies.

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A Perfect Day movie review: war is hellacious

Fri, Jan 15, 2016
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This compact little satire — set in 1990s Balkans — is a small, personal story about huge unfairnesses and injustices. Bleakly, bitterly, blackly funny.

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Where Are the Women? Carol

Thu, Jan 14, 2016
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A story about two women trying to carve out places for themselves in the world? This is perhaps the very definition of a feminist film.

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Carol movie review: flung out of space

Thu, Jan 14, 2016
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Flawless in every way: sumptuous visually and emotionally. One of the more mature and sophisticated romances the big screen has ever seen.

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Alan Rickman sings “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”

Thu, Jan 14, 2016
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From Truly, Madly, Deeply, one of the greatest films ever…

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London photo: a message for our “glorious world leaders”

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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Spotted in Soho the other evening…

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more men I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with in movies

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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Update! Another year, another slate of films proving there is almost nothing that men can do, think, or be that The Movies will not deem worthy of a story.

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Where Are the Women? The Danish Girl

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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It’s about a transgender woman, sure, but it’s ultimately little more than a showcase for a male actor to show off his range and be “brave.”

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