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1960s

Green Book movie review: a road frequently taken, but a lovely trip nevertheless (LFF 2018)

Thu, Nov 15, 2018
11 comments

The tune may be familiar, but it is performed with virtuoso style, its central characters drawn with wit, charm, and complexity and brought to life via the absolutely gorgeous performances of its stars.

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Bad Times at the El Royale movie review: bad times indeed

Thu, Oct 11, 2018
30 comments

A self-indulgent, faux-woke mashup of noir crime, black comedy, and Tarantino-esque ultraviolence. Some great performances, including a spectacular feature debut from Cynthia Erivo; shame they’re so wasted.

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First Man movie review: over the moon

Tue, Oct 09, 2018
7 comments

Damian Chazelle finds a dreamlike reverie amidst rocket-powered mechanical brawn. As wonderfully, nerve-wrackingly exhausting as it is movingly intimate.

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts documentary review: the political is her personal

Sun, Sep 23, 2018
2 comments

An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.

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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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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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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 29

Sat, Jun 30, 2018
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Ruth Wilson claims her family farm; Jessica Chastain heads west; Léa Drucker battles her husband; more…

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My Generation documentary review: when London was swinging

Thu, May 31, 2018
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A brilliantly thrilling look back at the flowering of creativity and freethinking spirit of 1960s London, through the thoroughly charming perspective of Michael Caine.

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On Chesil Beach movie review: no sex, please, we’re British

Mon, May 21, 2018
2 comments

This stilted, utterly implausible film manages the astonishing feat of being both histrionic and monotonous at the same time, trolling us with absurd clichés, yet doing so with a quiet solemnity.

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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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