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Frances Ha review: girl uninterrupted

Thu, Jul 25, 2013
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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have carved out, with effortless elegance and ease, a cinematic space for a woman to be, unapologetically, herself.

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Reality review: television becomes us

Wed, Jul 24, 2013
2 comments

Italian satire amusingly sends up our obsession with reality TV, but not in a wholly satisfying way.

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Breathe In review: every man’s fantasy — blech

Tue, Jul 23, 2013
5 comments

Dear Penthouse Forum: I am an ordinary high school teacher, happily married. I never thought anything like this would happen when we hosted a beautiful, brilliant British foreign exchange student…

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In the House (Dans la maison) review: humour noir

Tue, Jul 23, 2013
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As a black comedy, this never quite catches fire, though there is some mild amusement to be found in its social satire.

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The Wolverine review: prickly on the outside, cuddly on the inside

Mon, Jul 22, 2013
13 comments

There’s plenty of good summer popcorn fun, with fresh and exciting action setpieces, but this is mostly an intimate story about Logan, as a mutant and as a man.

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The World’s End review: the very bitter (and lager) end

Fri, Jul 19, 2013
8 comments

Its humor is a little more uncomfortable than that of the other Cornetto flicks, and it’s more far satirical, in a far more cynical way, than I ever would have anticipated.

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Girl Most Likely review: you can go home again, but it’ll probably suck

Thu, Jul 18, 2013
12 comments

Absolutely hilarious and absolutely heartbreaking. Kristen Wiig is brilliant. (new DVD/VOD US/Can)

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Terms and Conditions May Apply review: we all agreed to PRISM

Mon, Jul 15, 2013
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Nobody reads the terms-and-conditions of Web sites. They’re designed to discourage us from doing so… and there’s a reason why.

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Pacific Rim review: the world goes to war

Fri, Jul 12, 2013
55 comments

A war movie in the grandest tradition, set in a rich new fictional universe that we’re going to be talking about for a long time.

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Best Friends Forever review: the end of the world as women see it

Thu, Jul 11, 2013
1 comment

Smartly stylish, refracting familiar fictional events and themes through a little-used cinematic prism: that of women’s perspectives.

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