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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Apr 13

Fri, Apr 13, 2018
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Sophie Fiennes profiles Grace Jones, Chloé Zhao tells a cowboy’s tale, and more…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Apr 05

Fri, Apr 06, 2018
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Emily Blunt and Millicent Simmonds versus real monsters, Madison Wolfe versus (possibly) invented monsters, Maggie Grace versus armed robbers, and more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Mar 09

Sat, Mar 10, 2018
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Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of the classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, starring Storm Reid, is the big news…

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Split movie review: time for another round of “What the Hell Was M. Night Shyamalan Thinking?”

Tue, Jan 24, 2017
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Lurid and squicky, Split treads water and keeps too many secrets on a dull path to the revelation of its self-satisfied cleverness.

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Morgan movie review: AI why?

Mon, Sep 05, 2016
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Eschewing the compelling SF questions it raises, Morgan resorts to violence and would-be cleverness, and makes concrete what it should have left ambiguous.

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The Witch movie review: casts a good spell… and then a bad one

Mon, Feb 15, 2016
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Eerie and sinister, operating on a more psychologically incisive level than the typical horror flick… until it tosses it all with a cop-out of an ending.

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