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Saint Frances movie review: there will be blood — deal with it

Tue, Mar 10, 2020
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Taboo-busting laugh-until-you-cry tale dares to speak of oft-unspoken matters of women’s lives. So very necessary to open up the range of women’s experiences seen as baseline. I love this movie.

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Swallow movie review: leaves a sour taste

Sun, Mar 08, 2020
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Half a century ago, this would have been radical. Today, it’s banal. The slick postwar aesthetic is emblematic of a male filmmaker’s understanding of women that exists only through dated stereotypes.

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Military Wives movie review: tired choir dramedy needs to change the tune

Sat, Mar 07, 2020
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So aggressively precisely what you think it is that there’s almost no point in seeing it. Flattens a true story into generic pap that isn’t even that successfully, authentically feel-good, either.

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Onward movie review: the Pixar road goes ever on

Fri, Mar 06, 2020
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Don’t let the Pixar curve throw you: familiar this quest may be, but it’s full of magic and wonder and humor and melancholy, and set in a fully realized fantasy world. Not a masterpiece but very good.

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The Photograph movie review: love as a balancing act

Thu, Mar 05, 2020
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It’s meet-melancholy in an elegant, female-gazey romantic drama audaciously mingling past and present. A swanky celebration of confident, complex women and the bittersweetness of adult relationships.

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Push documentary review: why the rent is too damn high (and how to fix it)

Tue, Mar 03, 2020
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Badass UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha probes the global housing crisis and breaks down the complex cause into something readily comprehensible… then enraging. (But she has a solution, too.)

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The Lodge movie review: stuck in miserably mushy snow

Thu, Feb 27, 2020
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This exasperating movie is so obnoxious it could be deliberately trolling us. Wants to have its ambiguous cake and eat it, too, smothered in a gloomy frosting. *extremely pinches nose in despair*

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Like a Boss movie review: it doesn’t quite fall down on the job

Sat, Feb 22, 2020
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This instantly forgettable fluff lazily relies on too many unfunny slapstick and grossout tangents. But real humor blossoms in the terrific performances and in a fast, funny, and surprising feminism.

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Dark Waters movie review: capitalism will kill ya

Thu, Feb 20, 2020
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If you like these sorts of movies, you’ll like this one, a solid SJW drama out to condemn, with plenty of evidence, profit-above-all capitalism that embraces willful negligence and corruption.

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Seberg movie review: inept tribute to a troubled movie star

Wed, Feb 19, 2020
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French New Wave icon Jean Seberg plays an unwitting game of cat-and-mouse with the FBI in a strangled blend of biopic and paranoid thriller. Not even always fascinating Kristen Stewart can save this.

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