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One Battle After Another movie review: où est la résistance?

Thu, Sep 25, 2025
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Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, it’s both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall.

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Mrs Harris Goes to Paris movie review: a fashion for kindness

Fri, Jul 29, 2022
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This 60-year-old story of pursuing a dream with resolute kindness could not feel more fresh in its knowing class clash. Lesley Manville is an absolute treasure, her command of comedic pathos supreme.

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online critics pick ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ as best film of 2018 in HeyUGuys poll

Wed, Dec 19, 2018
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I participated in this poll, but this is not my pick for movie of the year…

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web movie review: an itsy-bitsy reboot

Fri, Nov 23, 2018
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A rote crime action thriller — very car chase! such gunshots! — that drains its protagonist of much of the raw power that has made her so fascinating in the past.

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my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 05, 2018
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I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.

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BAFTA 2018 winners announced

Mon, Feb 19, 2018
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Feb 02

Fri, Feb 02, 2018
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Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, and Helen Mirren are dealing with men’s crap in the corporeal and the spiritual worlds.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Jan 18

Fri, Jan 19, 2018
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Margot Robbie, Vicky Krieps, and Lesley Manville are not taking any crap from men.

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Phantom Thread movie review: hate couture

Thu, Jan 18, 2018
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A conundrum of a film that defies genre as it twirls us around a wickedly fascinating triad of gently, quietly manipulative people. A cinematic experience of sly eeriness and oblique mystique.

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OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 28, 2017
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Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.

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