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Little Women (2018) movie review: sisters weird

Thu, Sep 27, 2018
10 comments

This modern update of the beloved classic novel is embarrassingly misjudged, so earnest and on-the-nose a transfer to today that the March sisters feel not like modern girls but odd, out-of-step transplants from another time.

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Queer Eye S1/S2 television review: self-care for the straight guy

Mon, Aug 27, 2018
43 comments

The nicest, kindest critique of toxic masculinity imaginable. The makeovers aren’t only about new clothes and a haircut: they’re about men waking up to a new sense of self, and a new participation in their own lives.

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Home Again movie review: imitation of life

Wed, Sep 27, 2017
2 comments

Precious, fatuous, Nancy Meyers–lite rom-com about a privileged rich white lady with no real problems who can’t help but mom her much-younger new boyfriend. Barf.

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The Intern movie review: so much nice, so little help

Fri, Oct 02, 2015
4 comments

A nice movie about real problems people face in real life, and it deals with them in as sidelong a way as it possibly can, avoiding all strong emotion.

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Devil’s Due review: she’s having Satan’s baby

Thu, Jan 16, 2014
6 comments

This bunch of found footage should have stayed lost.

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apparently “the Nancy Meyers movie” is now a genre (The Big Wedding trailer)

Wed, Apr 17, 2013
2 comments

It seems the problems of rich white folk do amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world…

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The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (review)

Thu, Dec 20, 2012
3 comments

Achingly lovely, so full of bittersweet melancholy and yet so fixedly hopeful…

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