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weekend watchlist: a couple of treasures for Pride Month

Mon, Jul 18, 2022

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Plus a lovable English crank and a put-upon Texan mom. (First published June 18th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

How to Build a Girl movie review: instruction manual not included

Wed, May 06, 2020

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The hypocrisy of the world’s expectations of girls gets a gently sardonic knock via an audaciously confident young woman battling to be herself. This is a lovely, goofy movie, easygoing and chaotic.

Funny Cow movie review: standing up for herself

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

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This is scorched-earth cinema that challenges us to find moments of grace and triumph among misery, cruelty, and emotional frugality. Maxine Peake is absolutely incendiary.

Journeyman movie review: men and all the feels

Wed, Mar 28, 2018

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Sensitive drama about traumatic brain injury, featuring an extraordinary performance by Paddy Considine and much brutal honesty about men’s inability to deal with their own emotions.

The Death of Stalin movie review: the great dictator

Wed, Oct 25, 2017

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Audacious, outrageous, bleakly funny. Not since Charlie Chaplin sent up Hitler and invited us to laugh at terrible reality has there been a movie like this.

The Girl with All the Gifts movie review: I believe the children are our future…

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

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Stakes out its own fresh place in an SF subgenre that is well played out, and rehumanizes it ways that are both extraordinarily moving and deeply unnerving.