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Saving Brinton documentary review: the man with a mission to rescue a slice of cinema history

Thu, May 17, 2018
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A charming tribute to one remarkably dedicated cinema fan and historian, and to his decades-long hard work to save an essential piece of the pop-culture past and cultivate its story for the future.

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Revenge movie review: better served unhot

Tue, May 15, 2018
6 comments

This rape-revenge action horror is solid as pure grindhouse exploitation. But the rendering of its rage-fueled female protagonist is too salacious for this to ever be considered feminist.

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Anon movie review: brings a whole new meaning to ‘private eye’

Fri, May 11, 2018
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This sci-fi riff on the end of privacy is not as provocative as it would like to be, and its mystery completely falls apart in the end. But its visual worldbuilding is fascinating.

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Breaking In movie review: setting her house in order

Fri, May 11, 2018
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This perfunctory home-invasion flick can’t whip up much suspense, and it strains for a feminism that it doesn’t know how to engage. But Gabrielle Union’s movie-star charisma shines through.

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Life of the Party movie review: cut this class

Thu, May 10, 2018
3 comments

The complete lack of conflict overshadows even the cringeworthy attempts at physical comedy. Where’s the story in a woman who positively sails through her midlife crisis? The endearing McCarthy deserves so much better.

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Sherlock Gnomes movie review: oh gnome they didn’t… (they did)

Thu, May 10, 2018
10 comments

A flimsy treasure-hunt plot, a sexy song-and-dance number, and more of the same Elton John songs deployed with trite, lazy tedium. They mean to keep cranking out these dumb, dull movies, don’t they?

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New Town Utopia documentary review: the future that never was

Fri, May 04, 2018
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A lovely, melancholy documentary about the planned community of Basildon in England… but really about squandering of postwar optimism with the rise of neoliberalism.

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The Judge documentary review: social (and legal) justice warrior

Thu, May 03, 2018
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A portrait as delightful as its subject: Kholoud Al-Faqih, a pioneer of Islamic jurisprudence and as fiery as any Western feminist. Essential viewing for its smashing of stereotypes.

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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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RBG documentary review: though she be but little she is fierce

Mon, Apr 30, 2018
6 comments

A marvelous, funny, deeply moving biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg from her rise as a legal champion of women’s rights in the 1970s to her ascension as a Supreme Court justice and social-media hero “Notorious RBG.”

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