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On the Basis of Sex movie review: Notorious RBG’s origin story

Thu, Jan 03, 2019
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Coasts on the awesomeness of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a way unadventurous if solidly crowd-pleasing. But the depiction of her incredibly supportive marriage to a feminist man is intensely satisfying.

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Polina movie review: what it takes to dance ballet

Thu, Dec 20, 2018
1 comment

A marvelous paean to everything that goes into making great art: hard work, complicated humanity, taking risks, and trusting one’s own instincts. Anastasia Shevtsova is tremendous as a young woman with an indomitable spirit.

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Mary Queen of Scots movie review: not so good to be the queen…

Fri, Dec 14, 2018
15 comments

Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie command the screen in this delicious anti costume drama with an earthy ethos, replete with movie-movie internecine spycraft and a sly, smart feminist parable that resonates for us today.

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movies for the resistance: Schindler’s List

Mon, Dec 03, 2018
6 comments

The devastating cultural experience Spielberg’s masterpiece presented to us 25 years ago felt then like a piece of history. Today, from the bowels of 2018, it feels like a warning, a premonition, a harbinger.

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Creed II

Creed II movie review: a bout of familiarity

Fri, Nov 30, 2018
3 comments

Can’t quite manage to continue the first film’s smart, unsentimental examination of male emotion and men’s relationships. At best achieves a draw with a genre path that is already extremely well worn.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald movie review: the crimes of this movie, though…

Tue, Nov 20, 2018
22 comments

It certainly is MORE than the first movie: more incoherent, more confused about who its protagonist is, more crammed with contrivance and coincidence. Even the title is more nonsensical this time.

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3 Days in Quiberon movie review: a star is torn

Fri, Nov 16, 2018
2 comments

A raw and uneasy film about tortured celebrity — mid-20th-century European film star Romy Schneider — and the endless female struggle to break free of the small boxes our culture tries to confine us to.

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A Private War movie review: this is not fake news (LFF 2018)

Tue, Nov 13, 2018
1 comment

A moving and important portrait of legendary Times of London foreign correspondent Marie Colvin. We need more movies like this, about fearless, badass women this outrageously good at their vitally necessary work.

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Widows movie review: the women left to clean up men’s messes (LFF 2018)

Fri, Nov 09, 2018
29 comments

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 this so special is how it reexamines the genre’s clichés.

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The Front Runner movie review: when politics turned tabloid (LFF 2018)

Tue, Nov 06, 2018
4 comments

Snappy Sorkin-esque banter, 80s nostalgia, and Hugh Jackman in a bad wig yet still hot as hell. But also an enraging, ironic look at how a reality-TV resume ended up becoming a legit qualification for the American presidency.

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