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Mackenzie Davis

Irresistible movie review: are money and politics irretrievably entwined?

Sun, Feb 21, 2021
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This zingy satire is so perfectly, beautifully Jon Stewart: big and brash, raging with fury at the state of American politics but also underlain with hope that it might be changed for the better.

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Happiest Season movie review: don we now our gay apparel…

Wed, Dec 02, 2020
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Finds something fresh and gently feminist in the tropes and claptrap of an overbaked genre. Stewart and Davis have terrific chemistry, and the supporting cast of modern legends of funny is to die for.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 24

Sun, Jan 26, 2020
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Floria Sigismondi directs The Turning, starring Mackenzie Davis; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 24

Sun, Jan 26, 2020
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Floria Sigismondi directs The Turning, starring Mackenzie Davis… and that’s it. [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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The Turning movie review: it’s screwed

Sat, Jan 25, 2020
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Strips away the ambiguity of the source story to leave us with lazy jump scares, visual gloom, and a cheap cheat of an ending. Gaslights its protagonist and, incredibly enragingly, the viewer, too.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can Nov 01

Fri, Nov 01, 2019
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Kasi Lemmons cowrites and directs Harriet, starring Cynthia Enrivo; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]

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Terminator: Dark Fate movie review: it’s back… and we don’t know why

Wed, Oct 30, 2019
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Fight the future. Change the future. Watch the future reset itself so that everything ends up much the same way anyway. Repeat. This time-travelling franchise is, ironically, stuck in the past.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Oct 23–25

Fri, Oct 25, 2019
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Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, and Natalia Reyes star in Terminator: Dark Fate; 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 Jun 22

Fri, Jun 22, 2018
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Bryce Dallas Howard versus dinosaurs, Vera Farmiga versus her criminal dad, Shirley Henderson versus Parkinson’s disease, more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri May 04

Fri, May 04, 2018
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Julie Cohen and Betsy West direct a documentary biography of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among a slew of other very limited releases.

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