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Luckiest Girl Alive, when hiding trauma doesn’t work
Luckiest Girl Alive surprised me. I’d read some scathing reviews about how bad it was. I was going to watch it, good or bad, because it has Jennifer Beals. The surprise was, the film isn’t bad. It isn’t great, but it isn’t bad.
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Review: Judy
Judy is Judy Garland, of course. This biopic starring Renée Zellweger doing a magnificent job as Judy is about the last few months of her life. We see her wit, her pain, her loneliness, and her genius.
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Review: Ratched, season 1
Ratched uses mind-altering saturated color and gorgeous visuals to tell the lunatic story of the murder and mayhem that created the horrifying nurse Mildred Ratched, played here by Sarah Paulson.
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Watch This: Two Trailers for La La Land
La La Land premiers at the end of the month at the Venice Film Festival, so buzz about it will surely start then, but the film won’t be in theaters until December 16: your holiday musical. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone head up this film about an aspiring jazz musician and an aspiring actress.
Reviews of movies and TV focused on women