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The Assistant movie review: the realities of being a girl

Tue, Apr 28, 2020
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A quietly brutal film that shows the dark underbelly of an industry — of a world — dominated by often predatory straight white men. Could be an eye-opener on a larger scale… if only we listen.

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To the Stars movie review: run into the ground

Tue, Apr 21, 2020
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Coming-of-age melodrama about misfit girls is at first passingly diverting, but it whips up mystery and suspense where it shouldn’t be, diminishing and minimizing an already neglected kind of story.

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True History of the Kelly Gang movie review: toxic came the masculinity

Tue, Apr 21, 2020
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Revisionist tale of the Australian folk hero rages against the dark forces that shaped him: emotional and economic neglect and abuse forged in patriarchy and colonialism. Electrifyingly punk and vulgar.

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Endings, Beginnings movie review: when it ends is the best part

Thu, Apr 16, 2020
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Love this cast, but, my god, I hate these characters. I hate this miserable take on romance, which mistakes wallowing in self-pity for introspection, and people being awful for philosophical depth.

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Who You Think I Am movie review: on the Internet, no one knows you’re a sexy French lady

Fri, Apr 10, 2020
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Not even the treasure that is Juliette Binoche can make this cynical romantic thriller palatable. Does not say the things about social media and the lives of older women that it thinks it does.

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Never Rarely Sometimes Always movie review: the secret lives of girls and women

Tue, Apr 07, 2020
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Softly savage, exposing the unspoken subtext of the lives of girls and women: the mundane but covert garbage that gets piled upon us, the knotted existence too many of us are just barely surviving.

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The Perfect Candidate movie review: a woman’s place is everywhere

Fri, Apr 03, 2020
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A young Saudi doctor runs for local political office, finding her courage while more frustrated than usual by the limitations and restrictions placed upon her. Heartening, inspiring, gently ironic.

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Tape movie review: her too

Wed, Apr 01, 2020
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Messy, furious, sometimes at odds with itself, this tale of documenting a powerful man’s sexual intimidation of a vulnerable woman is absolutely necessary, full of a rage that is absolutely vital.

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The Platform (El hoyo) movie review: bold and bitter food for thought

Mon, Mar 30, 2020
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This sci-fi dreadfest immerses you into a shocking mystery, punches you in the gut, then grips you with a wisdom that transcends its obviousness, daring you to deny that its open savagery is our own.

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Blow the Man Down movie review: redefining the femme fatale

Mon, Mar 23, 2020
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Quietly savage, weirdly funny, this feminist take on crime noir is ferocious in a way that only slowly reveals itself. Conflict and compassion wax and wane in a mystery that isn’t quite what it seems.

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