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Catherine Keener

movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 13

Fri, Jul 13, 2018
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Holly Hunter and Sarah Vowell are back as half of the superhero family the Incredibles; Anya Taylor-Joy and Mia Goth are caught up in a family secret; and more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 15

Fri, Jun 15, 2018
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Animated Holly Hunter and Sarah Vowell battle supervillains; Madelyn Deutch battles the postcollege blues…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Apr 20

Sat, Apr 21, 2018
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Amy Schumer takes a knock on the head, Catherine Keener fights to save her home, and not much more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Feb 14

Fri, Feb 16, 2018
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Zosia Mamet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Maika Monroe, Ellen Burstyn, and Catherine Keener are all starring in new movies this week… but good luck finding them on a screen near you.

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Get Out movie review: yes all white people

Thu, Mar 16, 2017
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Shattering and deep-down bone-chilling. A viciously unsettling nightmare of race and privilege that carves out a much-needed paradigm shift for genre film.

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Begin Again movie review: up tempo

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
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A hugely satisfying ode to entrepreneurial creativity, and a glorious love letter to New York City and the art it inspires. I love this movie so much.

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you can’t stop the music… *ever* (A Late Quartet review)

Fri, Apr 05, 2013
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All its faults are forgiven thanks to our sheer joy in getting to watch Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, and Philip Seymour Hoffman rattle around one another…

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The Croods (review)

Wed, Mar 20, 2013
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Was this secretly produced by the Institute for Creation Research?

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The Oranges (review)

Thu, Dec 06, 2012
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I’m not sure a better cast has ever gone more ickily astray than in this most misbegotten of dramedies…

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The Oranges (trailer)

Fri, Sep 21, 2012
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Oh, goodie. Another movie about a man having a mid-life crisis, and the woman young enough to be his daughter he has it with.

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