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AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 10, 2019
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Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

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Gringo movie review: Mexican bland-off

Fri, Mar 09, 2018
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Woefully undeveloped characters, a thin yet convoluted plot, and a lack of humor in the black comedy. This is what it looks like when a hastily scribbled first draft goes straight into production.

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Red Sparrow movie review: undercovers agent

Thu, Mar 01, 2018
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Ballerina turned whore-spy? This is like a cheap porn scenario, and the Hollywood gloss makes it worse. Risible yet tedious, yet another movie by men that thinks it’s critiquing misogyny yet is indistinguishable from it.

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Bright movie review: every little thing it does is the opposite of magic

Fri, Dec 22, 2017
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Trolls the viewer and condescends to genre fans. A smirking, tone-deaf parable about racism that is itself racist, including about its made-up orcs and elves.

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It Comes at Night movie review: and it never leaves

Fri, Nov 03, 2017
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A quietly chilling nightmare of human frailty and strength, tense with a nameless disquietude. A supremely accomplished little film.

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AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 22, 2016
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Moonlight leads, with seven awards…

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Jane Got a Gun movie review: a woman’s view on the Old West

Fri, Apr 22, 2016
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A gritty woman’s perspective on tropes of the western genre, a lean action drama that is sparse yet sympathetic, and laconic but simmers with deep emotion.

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Midnight Special movie review: let the children use it

Fri, Apr 08, 2016
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Intensely gripping drama full of smart, thoughtful, personal twists on some familiar sci-fi ideas. Hums with the hope that a better world is within reach.

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Black Mass movie review: men behaving badly… again

Wed, Nov 25, 2015
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A solid execution of a familiar tale, crammed with a likable, watchable cast. But it doesn’t have anything new to say about why men do despicable things.

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spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift

Wed, Aug 12, 2015
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The Gift takes the disgusting trope of hurting a woman to make a man feel something to a vile new low… one that reveals its ignorance about women.

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