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Bridesmaids

A Simple Favour movie review: suburban mom stumbles into mystery!

Mon, Sep 10, 2018
24 comments

Witty, tense, and thrilling, but also cheerful, escapist, and fun, this is a perfect cinematic cozy mystery, kept on an even keel by the irresistibly charming Anna Kendrick. Merrily absurd pure entertainment.

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The Wedding Invitation movie review: regrets only

Mon, Jun 12, 2017
5 comments

This strained comedy might have been progressive in the 1960s, but today it reeks of an infantilization of women that warrants squashing, not celebrating.

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Joy movie review: a mess to be mopped up

Sun, Dec 27, 2015
8 comments

Even the miscasting of Jennifer Lawrence takes a backseat to the forced quirkiness, which David O. Russell cannot get his cast on the same page with.

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Spy movie review: the other gals

Mon, Jun 01, 2015
15 comments

Does some wonderfully seditious feminist things while also being funny as hell. Finally, we are asked to laugh with Melissa McCarthy, not at her.

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Girl Most Likely trailer: Kristen Wiigs out

Fri, Jul 12, 2013
5 comments

I’ve seen this, and it’s great.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Dec 22-28 2012

Sun, Dec 30, 2012
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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Pitch Perfect (review)

Mon, Dec 17, 2012
9 comments

What’s charming and fun here gets a little overwhelmed by too much grossout stuff.

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Friends with Kids (review)

Mon, Nov 12, 2012
4 comments

Trying to figure what is the most offensive thing about this accidental mashup of 70s Woody Allen and Sex and the City…

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That’s What She Said (redband trailer)

Tue, Oct 02, 2012
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The Hangover and Bridesmaids man those were funny movies right so come see this one.

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Bachelorette (review)

Fri, Aug 31, 2012
3 comments

This is a like comedy from Star Trek’s vicious Mirror Universe, where backstabbing and scheming are just the way things are.

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