Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Brain Dump: Good Girls, UnREAL, Black Lightning
Read more: Brain Dump: Good Girls, UnREAL, Black LightningTime for a brain dump of all things TV. Today I’ll talk about Good Girls, UnREAL, and Black Lightning.
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Review: 45 Years
Read more: Review: 45 Years45 Years is a tale of broken hearts. Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay) are planning to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary when a letter arrives that sets off tremors in both of them.
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Review: Irreplaceable You
Read more: Review: Irreplaceable YouIrreplaceable You begins in the cemetery where Abbie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is buried. In a voice over, Abbie explains her story. It began when she and Sam (Michiel Huisman) were 8 years old. They’d been together ever since.
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Review: Good Karma Hospital, season 1
Read more: Review: Good Karma Hospital, season 1Good Karma Hospital comes from the UK by way of Acorn TV for American audiences. A young doctor, Ruby Walker (Amrita Acharia), breaks up with a long time boyfriend. She decides to leave England and work for a while in a modern hospital in India.
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Review: On Body and Soul
Read more: Review: On Body and SoulOn Body and Soul (Teströl és lélekröl) is a Hungarian film. It is one of the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this year. The film is a strange and almost poetic love story. It’s laced with ethereal beauty and bloody gore.
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Review: The Post
Read more: Review: The PostThe 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 it again and again.
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Review: Queer Eye
Read more: Review: Queer EyeQueer Eye for the Straight Guy is back as simply Queer Eye. I loved the original series and I love the new series, which is streaming on Netflix.
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Review: Miss Meadows
Read more: Review: Miss MeadowsMiss Meadows stars Katie Holmes in an eccentric and weirdly wonderful story about a prim and proper murderer. It’s one of the most delightful things I’ve seen: full of surprises and improbable in every way.