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The Sunlit Night movie review: room to breathe and think in wide-open spaces

Wed, Jul 15, 2020
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A ramble with appealingly messy people rethinking their priorities that is perhaps more charming and touching than it might have been if this pandemic summer didn’t have so many of us doing the same.

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The Secret Life of Pets 2 movie review: gone to the dogs

Fri, May 31, 2019
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Underwhelming: episodic, a random collection of unconnected vignettes rather than one cohesive story. Inoffensive, but missing the first movie’s fantastical animals’ perspective on the human world.

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Venom movie review: no teeth, no bite

Fri, Oct 05, 2018
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A dull, dated comic-book clunker that is somehow even smaller and lesser than the sum of its noisy, junky, clichéd bits. So perfunctory that it saps even its excellent cast of all their charisma.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 20

Fri, Jul 20, 2018
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Amanda Seyfried and Lily James sing ABBA tunes; Jodie Foster patches up criminals; Lauren Greenfield investigates Western materialism; and more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 08

Fri, Jun 08, 2018
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Does every wide release in North America this week feature a female protagonist or female ensemble? Wow.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Apr 13

Fri, Apr 13, 2018
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Sophie Fiennes profiles Grace Jones, Chloé Zhao tells a cowboy’s tale, and more…

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Landline movie review: love in the time before smartphones

Fri, Jul 28, 2017
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A charming delight in a retro timeslip. Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate continue their rampage of creating wonderfully, memorably flawed women onscreen.

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The Secret Life of Pets movie review: dogs and cats living together…

Tue, Jul 05, 2016
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Charming. A cleverly constructed and amusingly rendered fantasy adventure that sings with a sweet, wistful devotion to home, family, and friendship.

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Obvious Child movie review: it doesn’t care if you like it

Fri, Aug 29, 2014
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Beautifully redresses how the realities of women’s lives are too often ignored on film… and does so with startling raw power and humor.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (review)

Thu, Dec 15, 2011
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Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if Alvin asked Dave, “Am I a pet?” and then, not getting an honest answer, led a chipmunk uprising?

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