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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, feel the love
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was released by Disney+ on the first day of Black History Month. Certainly nothing calculated about that move, right? I was happy for the chance to see it, however. It’s a beautiful film, gloriously beautiful, and full of love.
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Poker Face, Natasha Lyonne always knows the truth
Poker Face is halfway through its season, so I feel safe in saying it’s a hit. Natasha Lyonne leads a cast of guest stars so well-known it will make your head spin, in this crime-solving mystery created by Rian Johnson.
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Genius, the man who edited Thomas Wolfe
Genius, the 2016 version starring Colin Firth and Jude Law, is about Scribner editor Max Perkins (Firth) and his efforts to corral the language of Thomas Wolfe (Law) into marketable books.
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Tár, total brilliance from Cate Blanchett
Tár is 2 hours and 38 minutes of watching Cate Blanchett be brilliant as the first ever woman director of the Berlin Orchestra, Lydia Tár. Lydia was also a woman who used her power to seduce the young women who caught her interest.
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Echo 3, a military thriller
Echo 3 is an overlong, drawn out military thriller about a woman captured by rebels in Colombia and the efforts of her husband and brother to get her back. Like Helen of Troy, she was worth starting a war for.
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Shotgun Wedding, a Jennifer Lopez comedy
Shotgun Wedding is an action-packed goofball comedy that will make you laugh out loud. A destination wedding for Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) is about to happen on a private island in the Philippines.
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Showtrial, high profile crime story from the BBC
Showtrial is partly police procedural and partly courtroom drama. In only 5 episodes, directed by Zara Hayes, we see the crime, the police work, and the trial. After it’s all done and done, we still aren’t sure the right person was convicted of the crime.
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Aftersun, fragments of a distant past
Aftersun is the story of a father and daughter on vacation in Turkey, but overarching that is the now grown daughter’s struggle to understand her father through adult eyes. This review contains spoilers.
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Women at War (Les combattantes), heroic French women in WWI
Women at War (Les combattantes) puts the efforts and heroism of French women at the center of this story set in 1914 France as the Germans invaded France. Four popular actresses lead the cast.
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Slumberland, a wildly imaginative dreamworld
Slumberland tells a wildly imaginative story about a girl’s journey through dreamland in search of love and family. When Nemo’s (Marlow Barkley) father dies, she turns to dreams to help her find her way.
Reviews of movies and TV focused on women