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Battle of the Sexes movie review: totally ace

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

An essential history lesson with a smart smack of relevance for today (because feminism always has to be relitigated). It’s also warm, funny, and hugely entertaining.

Birthright: A War Story documentary review: how America hates women

Fri, Jul 21, 2017

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An enraging, essential documentary rundown of all the ways that women’s rights, agency, and bodily autonomy are under attack in the US. It’s not just about abortion.

Free Fire movie review: guns a-boring

Mon, Apr 17, 2017

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A 90-minute shootout that never makes us care who lives and who dies. In attempting to send up a cinematic cliché, this only becomes a tedious example of same.

Dig Two Graves movie review: and bury this deep

Fri, Mar 24, 2017

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Muddy and muddled 70s-style backwoods gothic Americana only comes to life when it rises to the accidentally silly. Little more than an incoherent showreel.

Kong: Skull Island movie review: ape-ocalypse now

Mon, Mar 06, 2017

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Boiled down to its bonkers essence, Skull Island is a Vietnam war movie with monsters, a retro analog vibe, and a dash of both Moby-Dick and The X-Files.

20th Century Women movie review: sometimes it’s hard to be a woman

Tue, Feb 07, 2017

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Poignant and hilarious and wise, a melancholy ode to a moment when when the world was changing for women (and men)… and how it still and always is.

#LFF2016: Ma’ Rosa, Pyromaniac, All This Panic

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

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Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.

The Conjuring 2 movie review: haunting only in its disjointed bulkiness

Wed, Jun 08, 2016

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“Less Ed and Lorraine” and “more cheese and cardboard” is precisely the last direction a sequel to the classy original should have gone in. Yet here we are.