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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Cop Secret movie review: cold fuzz (LFF 2021)

Wed, Oct 20, 2021
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Absolutely hilarious Icelandic sendup of action buddy cop movies. Knowing, sneaky, and deliciously deadpan, upending toxic masculinity and elevating the usual subtext of the genre to the overt text.

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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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Gone Girl movie review: proof of wife

Mon, Sep 29, 2014
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Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.

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Doctor Who thing: too many girls for the Doctor to cope with

Thu, Nov 28, 2013
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So, if it’s not weird enough that Lisbeth Salander, Hermione Granger, and Bella Swan are sharing a house, look what happens when the Doctor shows up…

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Dead Man Down (trailer)

Mon, Feb 25, 2013
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I’ll watch Noomi Rapace and especially Colin Farrell in anything, so I’m looking forward to this. But…

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A Royal Affair (review)

Fri, Nov 16, 2012
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Socialism as cool and sexy and radical? Is this a fantasy realm? No, it’s 250 years ago.

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clearly, Loki is Lore…

Mon, May 07, 2012
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Loki is not the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as someone on the Internet seems to think…

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question of the day: Has the era of the female hero arrived?

Mon, Apr 09, 2012
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Katniss Everdeen. Snow White. Lisbeth Salander. Are we finally starting to see heroine’s journeys?

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your David Tennant-as-a-pirate photo of the day (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Mar 23, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)

Sat, Feb 25, 2012
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Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…

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