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Science Fair documentary review: these kids today, with their changing the world…

Fri, Sep 28, 2018
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Meet some of the most brilliant teenagers alive, high-school students from all over the world competing at the World Cup of genius geekery. Funny, sobering, and inspiring.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 21

Fri, Sep 21, 2018
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Lisa Dapolito directs a documentary about comedian Gilda Radner; Sasha Waters Freyer directs a documentary about the photographer Garry Winogrand; more..

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A Happening of Monumental Proportions movie review: no, honey, no

Fri, Sep 21, 2018
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The title is intentionally ironic, and yet still feels like a bad and desperately unfunny joke. The spectacular all-star cast holds their noses and gamely dives in anyway, for the sake of Judy Greer’s directorial debut.

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The Happytime Murders movie review: schlock puppets

Tue, Aug 28, 2018
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Ugly, sordid, and proud of it, with less than no justification. “Meet the Feebles meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit” conveys a far greater sense of dignity, cohesion, and purpose than this witness movie deserves.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Aug 24

Fri, Aug 24, 2018
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Emily Mortimer opens a bookshop; Melissa McCarthy investigates puppet murder; more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 08

Fri, Aug 10, 2018
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Writer-director Crystal Moselle introduces us to girl skateboarders; writer-director Josephine Decker give us an arthouse mystery set in the theater; more…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Aug 10

Fri, Aug 10, 2018
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Jennifer Yuh Nelson directs Amandla Stenberg in a dystopian thriller; Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens, and Eva Longoria are dogs’ best friends; more…

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Dog Days movie review: a mangy mongrel of a movie

Wed, Aug 08, 2018
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Two rom-coms, a grossout comedy, a family drama, and a platonic May-December melodrama, all connected by stilted humor, sloppy schmaltz, implausible human interaction, and — least convincingly — dogs.

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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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