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weekend watchlist: the plot to trick Hitler

Tue, Jun 21, 2022
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Plus grownup romance and a bland dystopia, and more. (First published May 21st, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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The Secret Garden movie review: weedy with misplaced eeriness

Fri, Aug 07, 2020
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Pointless adaptation of the beloved children’s novel soaked in a gothic spookiness that seems to deliberately misunderstand the story. Neither literal enough nor magical enough. My heart was unmoved.

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The Happy Prince movie review: in the gutter, looking at the stars

Fri, Jun 15, 2018
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Writer, director, and star Rupert Everett’s labor of cinematic love, about the last years of Oscar Wilde, is a small wonder of contradictions: nightmarish yet sanguine, a bit sordid yet full of grace.

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The Mercy movie review: a sea of troubles

Thu, Feb 08, 2018
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An unsettling true story smartly told, from a moment in time at once uniquely its own and a harbinger of things to come. Colin Firth is subtle, unflinching, extraordinary.

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curated: the Brexit talent drain is real

Mon, Sep 25, 2017
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Colin Firth has taken Italian citizenship.

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle movie review: deliver us from “edgy”

Mon, Sep 25, 2017
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Save us from male artists who think they are dangerously, uniquely innovative. This stew of toxic masculinity and CGI-cartoon violence is nothing but tediously mundane.

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Bridget Jones’s Baby movie review: how to infantilize women

Wed, Sep 14, 2016
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The desperation, the neuroticism, and the idiocy of Bridget Jones continues to be appalling, not appealing. She is not the everywoman she is meant to be.

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from Facebook: Mr. Darcy, Jedi Knight

Wed, Dec 16, 2015
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[This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Kingsman: The Secret Service movie review: forgets its manners

Fri, Jan 30, 2015
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I cannot recall a film that left me with such a sour taste in my mouth by its end. Does the movie deliberately defy itself with obnoxious intent?

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AWFJ 2014 award winners

Wed, Jan 14, 2015
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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is one of the orgs for which I help choose year-end best-ofs.

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