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All In: The Fight for Democracy documentary review: the pushback against voter suppression

Fri, Oct 02, 2020
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Enlightening, enraging history of all the ways in which the United States has tried to bar citizens from voting, plus a primer on what Americans can do right now to ensure that our voices are heard.

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I Am Woman movie review: more a purr than a roar

Thu, Oct 01, 2020
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A winsome Tilda Cobham-Hervey leads a rote rags-to-riches tale, though its rampant sexism is a villain women will recognize. Needs to be seen, even if it’s not quite the tribute Helen Reddy deserves.

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Mulan (2020) movie review: girl (and film) at war with the world

Fri, Sep 11, 2020
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Acceptably inoffensive, if less than wholly engaging. At least Liu’s strong, stately Mulan is a wonderful role model for girls who aren’t much interested in conformity and adhering to expectations.

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Tesla movie review: less than electrifying

Fri, Aug 21, 2020
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Hawke is warm and empathetic, but the film’s artificiality is at odds with a celebration of the visionary’s life and work, and finally offputting. I wish this were either more earnest or more bonkers.

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The Secret Garden movie review: weedy with misplaced eeriness

Fri, Aug 07, 2020
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Pointless adaptation of the beloved children’s novel soaked in a gothic spookiness that seems to deliberately misunderstand the story. Neither literal enough nor magical enough. My heart was unmoved.

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Radioactive movie review: science, bitch

Sat, Aug 01, 2020
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Rosamund Pike is perfection in this intellectual romance, an unsentimental portrait of a woman striving to be appreciated for her mind at a time even more anti-woman than today. Feminist and flinty.

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First Cow movie review: new world, same as the old world

Thu, Jul 23, 2020
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A simple story about friendship. A revisionist Western reworking fables of masculinity and frontiers. A softly savage deconstruction of the American dream, of capitalism itself. An astonishing movie.

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John Lewis: Good Trouble documentary review: how to bend the arc of history

Mon, Jul 20, 2020
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Essential portrait of the US Congressman and civil-rights activist, for its lessons in the power of passive resistance to injustice, and its underscoring of how America has regressed in recent years.

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Greyhound movie review: Tom Hanks goes a-LARPing

Fri, Jul 17, 2020
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How very kind of Tom Hanks to lend his gravitas and inescapable likability to a bunch of WWII naval reenactors on their weekend-getaway “crossing the north Atlantic in 1942 dodging U-boats” campaign.

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Fanny Lye Deliver’d (aka The Delivered) movie review: birth of the modern woman (EIFF 2020)

Sun, Jun 28, 2020
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Maxine Peake is stupendous in this deliciously audacious period horror, ambitious in emotional scope and with monsters who feel unexpectedly modern: men who wield religion as a tool of oppression.

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