We Live in Time isn’t exactly a romcom. It’s a sweeping romance of a love story about a couple who make the most out of their lives together.
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Anora is a sex worker. She prefers the name Ani. Her story begins in a strip club where we see her life and work with almost documentary clarity. The second act is a hilarious fever dream. The final moments at
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Holler, from director Nicole Riegel, is part of a trilogy about low income women from different backgrounds. Jessica Barden stars as Ruth, a high school senior in a dying Ohio town who finds a way to make it to college.
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Late Bloomers is a small film that hasn’t attracted much attention. It got off to an annoying start, but by the end of the story it was well worth the time. It’s the story of how two strangers in adjoining
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The Piano Lesson brings another August Wilson play onto the big screen. This one is set in the 1930s and details a few days in the life of a family arguing over an heirloom piano.
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Christmas Island is a Hallmark Christmas romcom. It’s streaming on Netflix now, which is my way of telling you that a whole lot of Hallmark Christmas movies are now on Netflix. This one stars Rachel Skarsten, a favorite of mine,
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Joy is based on the true story of how IVF came to be. It documents several years of struggle that a scientist, a gynecologist, and a nurse went through to find a way to make it work and see the
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Blitz stars Saoirse Ronan as a mother who tries to send her child to safety outside London during the Blitz at the beginning of World War II. The real star of the movie is Elliott Heffernan, her young son, who
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Close to You is a story about love and family. Elliot Page stars as Sam, a trans man going home for the first time in several years because it’s his father’s birthday. There’s a secondary plot about an old love
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Widow Clicquot tells the story of Barbe Nicole Clicquot, the woman who defied the patriarchy in the early 1800s to engineer the success of the Veuve Clicquot champagne family after her husband’s death. Haley Bennett starred as the widow.
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