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Paddington in Peru movie review: bad things happen when you leave the city

Thu, Feb 13, 2025
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Colorful but flattened and flimsy, which really grates next to how abundantly, uniquely original the first two movies are. Suffers greatly from the lack of their deft whimsy. It’s, well, bearly there.

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The Secret Garden movie review: weedy with misplaced eeriness

Fri, Aug 07, 2020
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Pointless adaptation of the beloved children’s novel soaked in a gothic spookiness that seems to deliberately misunderstand the story. Neither literal enough nor magical enough. My heart was unmoved.

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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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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Dec 21-Jan 04

Thu, Dec 20, 2018
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Women get wide releases! Christina Hodson writes and Hailee Steinfeld stars in sci-fi action-adventure Bumblebee; Deborah Davis cowrites and Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz star in historical dramedy The Favourite; more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jul 20

Fri, Jul 20, 2018
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Amanda Seyfried learns about her mother Meryl Streep’s past; Lauren Greenfield looks back to her childhood in glitzy Los Angeles to explore American materialism; and more…

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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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Brooklyn movie review: across the ocean to find yourself

Wed, Nov 11, 2015
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Beautifully portrays a very universal experience — not only of immigration but of growing up — via an elegantly nuanced performance by Saoirse Ronan.

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Where Are the Women? Paddington

Mon, Jan 12, 2015
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The state of women onscreen these days is so bad that a neutral score of zero is actually a positive! [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Paddington movie review: please look in on this movie, thank you

Wed, Nov 26, 2014
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Adorable. So witty and compassionate and bittersweet and just the right little bit of snarky that you will cry tears of joy from the perfection of it.

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July 15-17: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Fri, Jul 17, 2009
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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Harry Potter has been sold out since Christmas and, well, that’s the only new movie opening everywhere. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, … more…

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