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Hellboy (2019) movie review: boy, this is hell

Fri, Apr 12, 2019
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Bounces from one preposterous setpiece to another across an inexcusably flavorless magical, monstrous world, and borderline incoherent as it races through the plots of half a dozen different films.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Oct 12

Fri, Oct 12, 2018
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Megan Griffiths directs troubled-teen drama Sadie; Polly Draper directs romantic comedy Stella’s Last Weekend; more…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Sep 06

Fri, Sep 07, 2018
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Taissa Farmiga investigates a demonic nun; Chloë Grace Moretz goes to gay conversion therapy; more…

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post movie review: just as she is

Fri, Sep 07, 2018
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Like a black comedy from a dystopia, except the dystopia is real and we are living in it. Chloë Grace Moretz is better than ever as a teen who discovers she may not be able to pray her gay away.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 01

Sat, Aug 04, 2018
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Mila Kunis and Kaye McKinnon have a spy adventure; Amandla Stenberg fights for respect in a future dystopia; Chloë Grace Moretz undergoes a terrible “therapy”; more…

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Aug 02

Fri, Aug 03, 2018
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Evangeline Lilly gets super tiny; Gemma Arterton runs away from her marriage; more…

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 08

Fri, Jun 08, 2018
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Does every wide release in North America this week feature a female protagonist or female ensemble? Wow.

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AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 22, 2016
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Moonlight leads, with seven awards…

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