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A Simple Favour movie review: suburban mom stumbles into mystery!

Mon, Sep 10, 2018
24 comments

Witty, tense, and thrilling, but also cheerful, escapist, and fun, this is a perfect cinematic cozy mystery, kept on an even keel by the irresistibly charming Anna Kendrick. Merrily absurd pure entertainment.

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The Bookshop movie review: quiet portrait of a woman of words

Wed, Aug 22, 2018
9 comments

It’s weighed down by unnecessary narration and a surprising lack of conflict. But star Emily Mortimer and director Isabel Coixet create a character study of a rarity onscreen: an earnestly cerebral woman.

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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms movie review: the tragedy of the immortal

Wed, Jun 27, 2018
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Epic yet intimate, this is a visually gorgeous and emotionally lush fantasy drama about love and hope set in a violent but beautifully realized invented world.

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Tully movie review: thou shalt be nicer to yourself

Wed, May 02, 2018
20 comments

A movie unlike any we’ve seen before, one deeply, intimately sympathetic to modern motherhood — to modern womanhood. Brilliantly wise and funny, and profoundly moving.

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Mercury 13 documentary review: the even righter stuff

Mon, Apr 23, 2018
86 comments

An essential documentary look at yet another example of historical feminism that should never have been forgotten: the first American in space might have and probably should have been a woman.

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All I Wish (aka A Little Something for Your Birthday) movie review: sassy birthday

Mon, Apr 02, 2018
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It’s too predictable and too disingenuous about the realities of what it means to be an “older” woman. But Sharon Stone is totally charming.

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Mary Magdalene movie review: the Gospel of Mary

Fri, Mar 16, 2018
76 comments

A fiercely feminist and proudly revisionist historical drama that offers a powerful and much-needed rebuke to modern Christianity. Enrapturingly beautiful and intensely emotional.

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In the Land of Pomegranates documentary review: is the Middle East fixable?

Sun, Mar 11, 2018
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The state of affairs in the Middle East may actually be thornier than it seems from afar: that is the position this brave, intimate perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to take.

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Brakes movie review: when romance comes crashing down

Tue, Feb 20, 2018

This ultra-low-budget indie uses its own rough edges to great effect in its skewering of the happily-ever-after rom-com fantasy. Bleak, brutal, absurd, and painfully realistic.

The Party movie review: bring your own battle

Fri, Feb 16, 2018
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Sally Potter’s brutally snappy take on the classic British drawing-room comedy hauls it into the 21st century with a cutting takedown of the anxieties and hypocrisies of well-off left-wingers.

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