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Crazy Rich Asians movie review: a Golden Age of Hollywood romance with an overdue fresh twist

Thu, Sep 06, 2018
15 comments

An opulent, juicy, splendidly silly, tears-of-joy spectacle reminiscent of the escapist fluff of 1930s Hollywood… yet also a romantic fantasy that a progressive, feminist gal can actually feel good about.

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Cold War (Zimna wojna) movie review: chilly romance

Sat, Sep 01, 2018
5 comments

This lush throwback to European cinema of the 1950s and 60 looks gorgeous and sounds wonderful, but it never quite gels as the passionate romance it wants to be.

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Destination Wedding movie review: reality bites

Thu, Aug 30, 2018
13 comments

A dark, bitter bonbon of an anti-romcom: so marvelously unromantic, so beautifully catty and witty. Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder were born to play these roles.

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Searching movie review: real virtuality

Wed, Aug 29, 2018
20 comments

With smarts, warmth, and humanity, this mystery that unfurls entirely on computer screens becomes an ode to the new digital lives we are all leading, from how we use our devices to what they say about us.

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Memoir of War (La Douleur) movie review: woman on the homefront

Wed, Aug 29, 2018
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Marguerite Duras’s semifictionalized memoir of psychological survival and emotional endurance in Paris during the Nazi occupation makes an uneasy, listless transition to the screen.

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The Happytime Murders movie review: schlock puppets

Tue, Aug 28, 2018
26 comments

Ugly, sordid, and proud of it, with less than no justification. “Meet the Feebles meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit” conveys a far greater sense of dignity, cohesion, and purpose than this witness movie deserves.

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Queer Eye S1/S2 television review: self-care for the straight guy

Mon, Aug 27, 2018
43 comments

The nicest, kindest critique of toxic masculinity imaginable. The makeovers aren’t only about new clothes and a haircut: they’re about men waking up to a new sense of self, and a new participation in their own lives.

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The Children Act movie review: objections, sustained

Fri, Aug 24, 2018
1 comment

Courtroom drama? Portrait of a marriage? Character study of a workaholic? This frustratingly random film cannot figure out what it is or what it wants to say… but Emma Thompson’s beautifully empathetic performance is worth your time.

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Alpha movie review: dog tired

Thu, Aug 23, 2018
43 comments

The remarkable Ice Age setting is all that distinguishes — and not by much — a depressingly conventional boy-and-his-dog story.

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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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