Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Scarpetta, not what I’d hoped for
Read more: Scarpetta, not what I’d hoped forScarpetta looks good on paper, but doesn’t work as well as I hoped it would in practice. It mixes together the plots of some of the novels by Patricia Cornwell about Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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The Burbs 2026 style
Read more: The Burbs 2026 styleThe Burbs is a comedy about a group of neighbors in a cul-de-sac in what was supposed to be the safest town in America.
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Vladimir – Rachel Weisz with pen in hand
Read more: Vladimir – Rachel Weisz with pen in handVladimir takes us inside a writer’s murky imagination. At a small university, four instructors who also have books to their credit mix it up in a story of desire, longing, and creativity.
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In the Blink of an Eye and thousands of years
Read more: In the Blink of an Eye and thousands of yearsIn the Blink of an Eye uses three timelines to tell a lightweight tale about the persistence of human life. The film had its moments, but overall it was nothing to rave about.
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What We Hide, something big is in the shed
Read more: What We Hide, something big is in the shedWhat We Hide tells a moving and heartbreaking story about two sisters who struggle to stay together and out of foster care when their mother ODs.
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Our House, a tragic series of mistakes
Read more: Our House, a tragic series of mistakesOur House stars Tuppence Middleton and Martin Compston, which ought to give it a pretty decent vibe, but even these two could not save this slow and muddled series.
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Queenie, strong enough to be vulnerable
Read more: Queenie, strong enough to be vulnerableQueenie is a British series written and directed by women and starring Dionne Brown as Queenie, a 25 year old Jamaican British woman. Queenie isn’t doing well in life, at work, in her family relationships, or in her love life. She’s a mess.
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Firebreak, Spanish thriller
Read more: Firebreak, Spanish thrillerFirebreak (Cortafuego) puts a grieving family to the test with a forest fire and watches what fear and stress does to them.
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My Mother’s Wedding, a weekend with the family
Read more: My Mother’s Wedding, a weekend with the familyMy Mother’s Wedding brings three women home for their twice-widowed mother’s third wedding. It’s a weekend filled with family love and family squabbles. Kristen Scott Thomas directed and co-wrote the screenplay with John Micklethwait. The film is a memoir-ish tribute to her own two father figures.
