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Constance Wu

what do women want? ‘Little Women’ and ‘Hustlers’ have some answers

Wed, Jan 15, 2020
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Women want to be able to tell our own stories, and we want to be heard. Hustlers and Little Women are so much about this (and other important things of female concern) that they’re practically the same movie.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Sep 13

Fri, Sep 13, 2019
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Lorene Scafaria directs crime drama Hustlers, starring Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Sep 13

Fri, Sep 13, 2019
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Lorene Scafaria directs crime drama Hustlers, starring Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Hustlers movie review: with hearts of steel

Thu, Sep 12, 2019
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GoodFellas, except they’re gals. A cinematic bonbon of delinquent deliciousness that easily wraps us up in charmed complicity. And the exquisite lack of a male gaze means it’s never salacious.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Sep 14

Sat, Sep 15, 2018
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Chloé Zhao directs modern revisionist Western The Rider; Annemarie Jacir directs Palestinian family drama Wajib; Eva Hausberger codirects a documentary about the Glock pistol; more…

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Crazy Rich Asians movie review: a Golden Age of Hollywood romance with an overdue fresh twist

Thu, Sep 06, 2018
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An opulent, juicy, splendidly silly, tears-of-joy spectacle reminiscent of the escapist fluff of 1930s Hollywood… yet also a romantic fantasy that a progressive, feminist gal can actually feel good about.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 15

Fri, Aug 17, 2018
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Adele Lim and Lea Carpenter cowrite two of the week’s wide releases, (respectively) Crazy Rich Asians and Mile 22. Progress!

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