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Yesterday movie review: imagine there’s no Beatles…

Mon, Jun 24, 2019
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It’s not interested in a world absent the incalculably enormous impact of the Beatles. It’s just a lazy comedy of one running joke, a regular schmoe enjoying unwarranted success, and a blah romance.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Apr 17-19

Sat, Apr 20, 2019
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Chrissy Metz stars in faith-based drama Breakthrough, directed by Roxann Dawson; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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

Fri, Apr 20, 2018
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Helen Mirren, Angourie Rice, Lily James, Juliette Binoche, Shirley Henderson, Maxine Peake, and Bel Powley headline in an unusually rich week for movies about women…

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie review: the stories too painful to tell

Fri, Apr 20, 2018
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A wonderfully old-fashioned tearjerker, with a thoroughly delightful cast, where cosy quaint Englishness is leavened by a harsh reality of World War II that pop culture has ignored.

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Darkest Hour movie review: a surrender to open-and-shut history

Fri, Jan 12, 2018
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A feature-length Oscar clip, two hours of Gary Oldman stomping around in a Winston Churchill suit. There’s too little drama and too much inevitability in what amounts to a reanimated Madame Tussaud’s waxwork scene.

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Baby Driver movie review: common car-nage

Tue, Jul 04, 2017
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Edgar Wright used to send up cinematic clichés with gusto and with huge humor. Here he just embraces them — and his sullen, unengaging hero — unironically.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies movie review: ironically, it has no brains

Fri, Feb 19, 2016
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A Mr. Collins of a movie: fatuous, self-important, and nowhere near as smart or as elegant as it thinks it is. There isn’t a lick of wit to be found here.

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Cinderella movie review: fifty shades of ash

Mon, Mar 09, 2015
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A product of the Disney princess machine. Its highest ambition is to move a new line of toys. Or to evoke despair in the fairy-tale-ization of girls’ lives.

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