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Claire Foy

AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 10, 2019
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Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Nov 21

Sat, Nov 24, 2018
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Claire Foy and Tiffany Haddish headline big new wide releases; Erika Cohn directs documentary The Judge, about a female pioneer of jurisprudence in the Middle East; more…

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web movie review: an itsy-bitsy reboot

Fri, Nov 23, 2018
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A rote crime action thriller — very car chase! such gunshots! — that drains its protagonist of much of the raw power that has made her so fascinating in the past.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Nov 07

Sat, Nov 10, 2018
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Claire Foy takes over as the dragon-tattooed Lisbeth Salander; more…

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First Man movie review: over the moon

Tue, Oct 09, 2018
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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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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Mar 23

Fri, Mar 23, 2018
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Teenaged girls dying, teenaged girls fighting monsters…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Mar 23

Fri, Mar 23, 2018
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Girls travel in space and fight monsters; women fight their own demons.

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Unsane movie review: is she or isn’t she?

Wed, Mar 21, 2018
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As a piece of craft, this is a smack in the face to Hollywood’s bloated blockbusters. As a piece of pulp, it brings a sharp, smart feminist twist to familiar tropes of cinematic paranoia.

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curated: Claire Foy paid less than her male costar on ‘The Crown’

Wed, Mar 14, 2018
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Spoiler: She’s the one wearing the crown.

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Breathe movie review: paralyzed but determined to be mobile (LFF 2017)

Wed, Oct 11, 2017
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A romance and a real-life adventure, full of life-and-death peril and unexpected cheerful good humor, about a pioneer in disability rights and dignity.

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