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Felicity Jones

movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 06

Sun, Dec 08, 2019
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Jessica Hausner directs and writes, with Géraldine Bajard, Little Joe, starring Emily Beecham; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Nov 04–08

Sun, Nov 10, 2019
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Felicity Jones costars in The Aeronauts; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 22

Fri, Feb 22, 2019
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Mimi Leder directs On the Basis of Sex, starring Felicity Jones as US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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On the Basis of Sex movie review: Notorious RBG’s origin story

Thu, Jan 03, 2019
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Coasts on the awesomeness of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a way unadventurous if solidly crowd-pleasing. But the depiction of her incredibly supportive marriage to a feminist man is intensely satisfying.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 17-Jan 04

Thu, Dec 20, 2018
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It’s Christmas for movies about women! Women-centered Mary Queen of Scots, The Favourite, Second Act, and Bumblebee all open wide over the holidays. Amazing.

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A Monster Calls movie review: the monster is within us all

Tue, Jan 03, 2017
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A fairy tale of the Grimm sort: no happy ending, no heroes or villains, just hard truths about life and human nature. Important, beautiful, heartbreaking.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie review: the high price of hope

Fri, Dec 16, 2016
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There’s genuine fun here, but the humor is cynical, the heroics are tinged with regret, and it’s all delivered with a cold smack of — yes — political relevance.

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Inferno movie review: let’s run through the museum!

Mon, Oct 17, 2016
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Completely absurd, ultimately pointless, but also gloriously goofy: a Nancy Drew mystery with Scooby-Doo overtones and a thin veneer of bookishness.

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Everyone’s Going to Die movie review: black comedy among the blues

Wed, Jun 24, 2015
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Strange and wonderful and unclassifiable in the best way, this is an unexpectedly touching and oddly funny platonic romance. Sort of.

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87th Academy Awards: the Oscar nominees (and winners) for 2015

Mon, Feb 23, 2015
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Now with winners indicated.

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