Meryl Streep

Martin Short, Selena Gomez, and Steve Martin seated side by side in an empty theater auditorium

Only Murders in the Building, season 3, showstopping fun

Only Murders in the Building, season 3, is another hilarious and twisty romp through a murder mystery set in the building where our heroes Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) live.

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Sarah Lancashire in Julia

Review: Julia, episodes 1-3, in which Sarah Lancashire is a marvel

Julia on HBO Max dropped the first 3 episodes of the 8 episode series on March 31. Future episodes will air weekly on Thursdays. The way Julia Child became “The French Chef” on public television is explored in these first

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, and Jennifer Lawrence in Don't Look Up

Review: Don’t Look Up. Wait, do look up!

Don’t Look Up is a laugh-out-loud satire about real events that haven’t happened yet. It’s true but painfully so. It paints a portrait of a society gone mad and a world hurtling toward doom. In other words, it’s us right

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Candice Bergen, Meryl Streep and Dianne Wiest in Let Them All Talk

Review: Let Them All Talk

Let Them All Talk is an odd but interesting film with A-list actors including Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, and Dianne Wiest. Director Steven Soderbergh put the three of them on the Queen Mary 2 and let them improvise most of

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Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen in Little Women

Review: Little Women (2019)

Little Women was so rich, I wish I could watch it a couple more times before I write this review. There was everything Louisa May Alcott gave us in the book, with additions and modernized storytelling from writer and director

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Meryl Streep in The Laundromat

Review: The Laundromat

The Laundromat isn’t a narrative. It isn’t a documentary. It isn’t a Vaudeville act. But it comes close to all those in an eccentric effort to explain the vast trail of emptiness behind the revelations in the Panama Papers.

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Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson in Mary Poppins Returns

Review: Mary Poppins Returns

Mary Poppins Returns was a disappointment. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t really good either. I expected it to be really good. I’m a sucker for a musical, so I was surprised that this one didn’t make me jump with

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A manifesto

A Personal Manifesto

A couple of decades ago I realized everything in my life up to that point had been determined by men. I can hear my friend Denise shouting, “It’s the patriarchy, stupid!” That’s not it – at least not completely. The

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Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, and Amanda Seyfried in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Quickly now! See if you can guess how I felt about Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again based on these facts. 1) I loved the now 10-year-old Mamma Mia! 2) I love ABBA. 3) I love a musical. Have you

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Meryl Streep in The Post

Review: The Post

 The Post taps into the modern political situation like it was 1971. I don’t know how filmmakers tap into the zeitgeist of a particular moment with films like The Post that take months or years to make, but they do

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