Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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The Last Anniversary, Australian series from a novel by Liane Moriarty
Read more: The Last Anniversary, Australian series from a novel by Liane MoriartyThe Last Anniversary is a new favorite for me. I always enjoy books and series from Liane Moriarty, and this one was outstanding. It’s a story about family, the resilience of women, and finding love.
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Black Bag, a delightful spy thriller
Read more: Black Bag, a delightful spy thrillerIn Black Bag Cate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender are married spies in British intelligence. They spy on each other, on their work colleagues, and on the world. They’re chess masters manipulating the players and the moves on a life and death global chess board.
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Another Simple Favor, it’s one obsession after another
Read more: Another Simple Favor, it’s one obsession after anotherAnother Simple Favor again brings Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick together in a crazy twisty plot about murder. The not-so-secret Sapphic attraction between them still simmers in the background, but gets even crazier.
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The Four Seasons, a classic remade for modern marriages
Read more: The Four Seasons, a classic remade for modern marriagesThe Four Seasons remakes the 1981 classic by Alan Alda into a modernized TV series created by Tina Fey and Lang Fisher. It stays close to the original thematically as it deals with three couples and their marriages through four vacations in four seasons of the year.
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Good American Family dramatizes a true story
Read more: Good American Family dramatizes a true storyGood American Family tells the Natalia Grace story from several viewpoints. The truth is subjective, depending on who is telling the story. The series starring Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass makes no judgements about which version is accurate, but it does lay out the facts.
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Jerry and Marge Go Large to win the lottery and save the town
Read more: Jerry and Marge Go Large to win the lottery and save the townJerry and Marge Go Large is based on a true story about a couple who found a flaw in the lottery and used it to make enough money to revive their entire decaying town and help their community. Beware the spoilers.
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The Glass Dome review, a Skandi noir mini series
Read more: The Glass Dome review, a Skandi noir mini seriesThe Glass Dome brings dark Skandi noir to Netflix in a mini series about abducted children who were kept in a glass box like specimens.
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Review: Widows, updated
Read more: Review: Widows, updatedWidows is crammed with star power, blessed with an engaging but tricky plot, and is a paen to female empowerment. I was expecting lots of action from the women, but the story built slowly toward a few moments of action at the end. I first reviewed this movie in 2018, but added updates in 2025…
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The Crowded Room teems with personality
Read more: The Crowded Room teems with personalityThe Crowded Room is hard to talk about without giving away the secret it tries to hide for the first five of its ten episodes. I can tell you that it’s a fascinating, complicated psychological drama and well worth watching. Tom Holland is brilliant in this, and so is Amanda Seyfried. With that said, I…