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Girls Will Be Girls
(2024)
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Jennifer Merin
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Shuchi Talati's coming of age drama has good story aplenty and the performances are excellent -- and, although the film is Indian in origin and reflects Indian culture, <em>Girls will be Girls</em> is universally relatable.
Posted Sep 06, 2024
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Sweetheart Deal
(2022)
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April Neale
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If you are a student of the human condition or studying psychology or criminology, this is a fantastically worthwhile film to seek out. It will show you and reinforce what tuned-in healthy people already know: The weak will always feed the strong.
Posted Sep 06, 2024
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I'll Be Right There
(2024)
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T.J. Callahan
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I’ll Be Right There is witty, touching, humorous, chaotic, and most of all spot on. This is a film most viewers can see themselves in whether as an adult child or a parent.
Posted Sep 05, 2024
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3/5
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has enough colour, flair, and humour to make it enjoyable, but it’s not a pinch on the original.
Posted Sep 03, 2024
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City of Dreams
(2024)
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T.J. Callahan
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The City of Angels is The City Of Dreams for so many immigrants. It’s believed that movies, music and money flow from the Hollywood Hills. But there’s a world of evil lurking inside inconspicuous buildings throughout LA. This is a truth-based story.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Across the River and Into the Trees
(2023)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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Building to a cleansing if wrenching denouement, Across the River and Into the Trees is a thoughtful journey of absolution. ... Liev Schreiber delivers an achingly poignant performance.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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2.5/5
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It Ends With Us
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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Well-intentioned. .... While fans of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel might enjoy it, others might find it as contrived as some of the protagonist’s elaborate flower arrangements.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Boot Camp
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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a delightful romantic comedy that challenges conventional beauty standards with a story about the sexiness of self confidence.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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3/5
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Twisters
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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Twisters, a run-toward-disaster action film, is not without its charms but not as goofily fun as perhaps it could be. There’s not a flying cow in sight. ... [It's not] a barnburner, but fans of Twister might find reason enough to get carried away.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Skywalkers: A Love Story
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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Not for viewers with vertigo, Skywalkers: A Love Story is best appreciated as a travelogue rather than as a high-flying romance. ... The imagery, much of it thanks to the couple’s drone shots and precision, is indeed stunning.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Young Woman and the Sea
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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Anyone who says, “They don’t make movies like that anymore” should see [this film]. This rousing old-fashioned sports biopic has rich characters and relationships that make the triumph of the first woman to swim across the English Channel truly soar.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Despicable Me 4
(2024)
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Valerie Kalfrin
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Giving the villain in Despicable Me 4 a cockroach fixation is an apt metaphor for the plot, which scatters all over the place like those buggers when the lights click on.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Hoard
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Luna Carmoon is such a unique, strong filmmaker and Hoard feels like it is just a small peek into the kinds of stories she is capable of sharing with us – all, no doubt, just as special, just as singular, and just as magical.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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A
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl cements Nyoni as crucial artist deconstructing, decolonising, and restructuring the past and futures of Zambian women.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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4/5
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September Says
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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A sophisticated, poetic, and thorny story of guilt and repression, September Says is a dark mirror of unrealised and unstable identity. Waking up to reality is unkinder when even the most twisted of fantasies are grounded in unspoken truth.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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A+
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Universal Language
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Universal Language is a meticulous fantasy offering an idiosyncratic vision of a world connected by the threads of chance and fate, but most powerfully through kindness and stories told on screens.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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A+
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He Ain't Heavy
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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He Ain’t Heavy is as harrowing as it is human. The rawness and honesty of David Vincent Smith’s film is disarming. A blazing debut from an Australian talent tackling difficult subject matter with nuance and grace.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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A
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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point captures how tables and traditions shrink and grow, and the attendant sadness and hope in heritage. A tenderly sincere example of Taormina’s singular style.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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3/5
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The Balconettes
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Noémie Merlant and Céline Sciamma imagine a world in The Balconettes where France shouts Liberté, égalité, sororité and while the film isn’t an incendiary revolutionary document on its own, it’s adding to the voices growing louder all the time.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Join or Die
(2023)
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Rachel West
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With a strong but narrow thesis, Join Or Die feels repetitive for its runtime. While it would benefit from tighter editing, the documentary’s positive encouragement and ideas of “social capital” will leave viewers amped up to join an organization.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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3/5
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The Damned
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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There are no heroes in The Damned and no identifiable villains. There is the inexorable; humanity will push forward and into its own ruin trying to survive fighting against itself.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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A
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The Girl with the Needle
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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The Girl with the Needle is an uncompromising vision of broken things and damaged people filtered through an ether haze. Difficult to watch but always gripping. A bold and brilliant piece of cinema.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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Matt and Mara
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Two imperfect and indulgent people who open and close doors in their relationship as they hold each other to account simply by existing. Matt and Mara emerges as tender depiction of a bittersweet, deep and complicated connection.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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A
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Grand Tour
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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There are three Grand Tours in Grand Tour – Edward’s, Molly’s and Gomes’ – and all are illuminating and opaque. Grand Tour is a masterpiece of truth found within cinematic lies.
Posted Aug 27, 2024
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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With On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Nyoni demonstrates that the majesty of I Am Not a Witch was no one-off fluke.
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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Janet Planet
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Nostalgic but never naff, Janet Planet fills the screen with warmth and compassion for its charming, flawed and very human characters.
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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Good One
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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A quiet yet powerful film about learning how you want to be in the world, Good One is an impressive calling card for both Donaldson and Collias herself.
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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Green Border
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Green Border is not an easy watch, but it is an indescribably important one, and one of Holland’s most humane and compassionate works yet.
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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Thelma
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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A playful, light-hearted film at is core, in every single frame Margolin foregrounds Thelma’s subjectivity and experience, brought to life so vividly by Squibb
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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Universal Language
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Wholly original and brought to life with an overwhelming sense of charm and sincerity, Universal Language is a film like no other.
Posted Aug 26, 2024
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Julie Keeps Quiet
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Julie Keeps Quiet expertly addresses the minefield of dangers inherent in unbalanced power relationships. Gripping and undeniable,
Posted Aug 24, 2024
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Animale
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Emma Benestan and Oulaya Amamra bellow in bloodshed. Animale is a brutal disorienting horror fable burning with feminine anger.
Posted Aug 22, 2024
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Timestalker
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Timestalker is above all else distinctly Loweian, and consolidates the filmmakers place as one of the most dazzling and exciting British filmmakers working in the indie genre space today
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a film that holds the notion of intimacy in a way that almost feels sacred
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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Close Your Eyes
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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A haunting yet simultaneously vibrant film about time, memory, and the myth-making capacity of cinema itself, Close Your Eyes is a dazzling return to fictional feature filmmaking by one of cinema’s greatest giants
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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Kneecap
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Make no mistake: Kneecap lives up to the hype
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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Matt and Mara
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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This is a careful, considered and considerate film, an authentic portrait of two people at a transformative moment full of all the life and humour and contradictions shared by us all.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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Norah
(2023)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Norah is ultimately not really a film about the nuances of narrative and character; its strengths lie in its hefty metaphorical significance and grander ambitions
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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Secret Mall Apartment
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Secret Mall Apartment shines the light on the kind of art – and the kinds of artists – who work beyond the limelight, pushing both the law and the very definition of “art” itself to their limits.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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Sujo
(2024)
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Sujo is a gentle film about a harsh world, and its patience and sensitivity give space for a refreshingly different kind of story about the Mexican drug wars to emerge than we are typically used to seeing.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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She Loved Blossoms More
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Veslemes’ vision of infinite loss anchors his unique work. She Loved Blossoms More is strange and rare.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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3/5
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In Vitro
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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In Vitro is disturbing and magnificently utilises the odd phantasmagoria of the Australian rural landscape to make an impact.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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A
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Memoir of a Snail
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Whimsy in Elliot’s films is mixed with sadness and grime, but the animation auteur wants the audience to see the value in both the large and small lessons of life. Memoir of a Snail is a miracle of compassion.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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A
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Reinas
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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A warm hearted, enveloping film – Reinas reigns supreme.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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3.5/5
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Blink Twice
(2024)
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Nadine Whitney
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Blink Twice is chilling, turning all too real daily concerns women face into a fight some men enjoy a little too much. Keep an eye on Zoë Kravitz, one day she’s going to blow you away.
Posted Aug 19, 2024
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2.5/5
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It's Raining Men
(2023)
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Nadine Whitney
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Iris et les hommes is diverting but frustratingly fluffy. Still, for fans of the fabulous Laure Calamy, watching her do a musical dance routine to ‘Il pleut des hommes’ might be worth a petite Alleluia!
Posted Aug 19, 2024
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Twice Colonized
(2023)
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Jennifer Merin
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Chronicles the life and activism of Aaju Peter, a revered Inuit feminist lawyer who's fought for equal rights in Canada, Denmark and Greenland. She's charismatic and her story is fascinating. Director Lin Alluna does a wonderful job of telling it.
Posted Aug 18, 2024
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Widow Clicquot
(2023)
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Jennifer Merin
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Aa stirring truth-based drama about the woman who defied French vintner patriarchy and survived calamities to create one of the world’s finest champagnes: Veuve Clicquot. They said she couldn’t do it. She proved them wrong. We are so grateful she did.
Posted Aug 18, 2024
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The Fabulous Four
(2024)
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Jennifer Merin
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A comedy about BFFs, female needs, objectives, perspectives and aging. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, it stars a quartet of iconic actresses -- Bette Midler. Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally -- and they are, indeed, fabulous.
Posted Aug 18, 2024
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Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
(2023)
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Jennifer Merin
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Filmmaker Lucy Walker follows the daring Lhakpa to the summit of Mt Everest, chronicling her record as the woman with the most successful ascents. Walker also delves into Lhakpa’s personal history, revealing her hardships. Fascinating. Beautifully rafted.
Posted Aug 18, 2024
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