girls/women archives - Page 45 of 104

Ricki and the Flash movie review: rocking (down and) out

Wed, Sep 09, 2015

There’s some good stuff here, like the prickly relationships between women at odds with one another, but too much feels too contrived to fully satisfy.

Barely Lethal movie review: hidden in plain sight

Fri, Aug 28, 2015

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Charming and funny, a wonderfully sweet and silly mashup of spy stuff and high-school comedies, like if John Hughes made a James Bond movie.

Trainwreck movie review: all aboard

Thu, Aug 20, 2015

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A breath of half-nasty, half-nice fresh air, set somewhere near the intersection between a parody of a romantic comedy and a straight-up example of one.

Paper Towns and Mistress America movies review: girls’ stories are their own (and not yours, boys)

Mon, Aug 17, 2015

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Want to debunk the myth and the mystery of the manic pixie dream girl? There’s a wrong way to do that… and an oh-so marvelously right way.

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism movie review: you are getting very angry…

Thu, Aug 13, 2015

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This desperately terrible children’s fantasy is an unpleasant mishmash of dated slapstick, unwittingly sinister adventure, and icky magic.

52 Tuesdays movie rating: green light

Fri, Aug 07, 2015

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Compassionate Australian drama about a teenaged girl’s sexual awakening that is complicated by her mother’s transgender transition to manhood.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl movie review: crossing no-woman’s-land to adulthood

Fri, Aug 07, 2015

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It shouldn’t be radical to see a movie treat a girl with this level of appreciation and understanding of her most intimate inner self. Yet it is.

The Gift movie review: give it back unopened

Mon, Aug 03, 2015

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Descends into emotional idiocy and insufficient intrigue to end in a disgusting place that presumes that a woman is an appropriate pawn in games men play.