Nina movie review: dreary would-be sexual melodrama
Overlong and underwritten, tepid and dreary, this would-be sexual melodrama isn’t lurid enough to qualify as soft-core porn, but never finds any true emotion among its triangle of lovers, either.
Glass movie review: superhero ’splaining
Earnest and humorless, this is a faux-intellectual Comic Book Guy ponderously well-actually-ing us about shallow superhero tropes and clichés as if those are the most intriguing bits of these stories.
Destroyer movie review: holding out for an antiheroine
Nicole Kidman’s pitiless performance completely upends genre expectations in Karyn Kusama’s tense, grim crime noir. Uncompromising and subtly challenging, like a cerebral itch you can’t quite scratch.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 16-18
Tika Sumpter stars and Jamie Lee Curtis costars in dramatic thriller An Acceptable Loss; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 18
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie star in historical drama Mary Queen of Scots; more…
Hale County This Morning, This Evening documentary review: a flow of time and hope
Slice-of-life and stream-of-consciousness, this is unlike any documentary before about what it’s like to be poor and black in America. RaMell Ross is an important new voice in American cinema.
more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
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curated: YouTube bans videos showing dangerous pranks and stunts
So what’s YouTube gonna do about racist and misogynist videos?
movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 11
Bel Powley stars in historical drama Ashes in the Snow; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 09-11
Keira Knightley stars in historical docudrama Colette, cowritten by Rebecca Lenkiewicz; more…
