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AWFJ 2021 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 25, 2022
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OFCS 2021 awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 25, 2022
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Passing movie review: the realities and fallacies of race

Wed, Jan 19, 2022
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Everything about this astonishing, just-plain-satisfying film feels like a revelation. Bone-deep subversive yet universal, dripping with a quiet dread yet also beautiful and beautifully wise.

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Godzilla vs. Kong movie review: whole earth monster catalog

Fri, Apr 02, 2021
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Everything a monster movie needs: Monsters, natch. Cute kids who Know Things. Nerdy-hot scientists. Spectacular sci-fi visions. Humor but no cheese. Warmth but no schmaltz. And a superb green message.

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Mirai movie review: and baby ruins everything

Thu, Nov 29, 2018
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This tenderly animated Japanese film about sibling rivalry is lovely with its fantasy, but too convoluted for children and too slight for adults.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Feb 09

Fri, Feb 09, 2018
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Lots of movies to chose from, but most are playing on only a very few screens.

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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women movie review: secret identities (LFF 2017)

Mon, Oct 16, 2017
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A sweet, romantic story about the polyamorous triad that created a beloved superhero… and about the power of comic books to speak to our inner lives.

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Tumbledown movie review: letting go of the past

Fri, Feb 05, 2016
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A portrait of grief that borrows the conventions of romantic comedies. There may not be a lot of passion here, but there is plenty of pleasant zing.

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spoiler alert: about the ending of The Gift

Wed, Aug 12, 2015
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The Gift takes the disgusting trope of hurting a woman to make a man feel something to a vile new low… one that reveals its ignorance about women.

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The Gift movie review: give it back unopened

Mon, Aug 03, 2015
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Descends into emotional idiocy and insufficient intrigue to end in a disgusting place that presumes that a woman is an appropriate pawn in games men play.

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