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A Quiet Place (2018)

A Quiet Place (2018)

With minimal exposition, and even less sound, we meet a lone family in a mysteriously post-apocalyptic world. They are seemingly alone in a small town, with pillaged corner stores...

Linda
Dolores (2017)

Dolores (2017)

At one point in the documentary Dolores, about American farm workers’ labor activist Dolores Huerta, her daughter says, “We need to set the record straight! Women cannot be written...

Linda
Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

So, if you are a college a cappella group, you can win Nationals, Worlds, then… get a job? That is the reality for the Bellas, who accomplished those feats...

Linda
Tomb Raider (2018)

Tomb Raider (2018)

Tomb Raider seemed to be an odd choice for a series reboot. After all, the original movies were pretty terrible the first time around, despite star Angelina Jolie doing...

Linda
Love, Simon (2018)

Love, Simon (2018)

Nick Robinson stars as the titular teenager, who’s ordinary in every way but one (as he reveals in his opening voiceover): he’s gay, but no one knows it. Blessed...

Vickie
Submission (2017)

Submission (2017)

How many times have we seen a story of a married middle-aged (white) guy being lured and destroyed by a young woman? Is it because most screenwriters are middle-aged...

Linda
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is a glum tween with every reason to be distant from her classmates: Her beloved physicist dad (Chris Pine) disappeared four years ago. Dad and...

Linda
Annihilation (2018)

Annihilation (2018)

Natalie Portman plays Lena, a biologist grieving her military husband who has been MIA on a secret mission for a year. When he suddenly walks into her life, strange,...

Linda
Early Man (2018)

Early Man (2018)

Let me start out by saying that I don’t think any film, long or short, has made me laugh harder than Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong...

Linda
A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)

A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)

In Bad Moms, we met 30-something moms Amy (Mila Kunis), Kiki (Kristen Bell), and Carla (Kathryn Hahn) as they bonded (and drank and partied) over the stress and expectations...

Linda
Logan (2017)

Logan (2017)

Set in the year 2029 – when, apparently, nothing (not technology, not clothes, not cars, etc.) really looks any different than it does in 2017 – the film centers...

Vickie
Graduation (Bacalaureat) (2016)

Graduation (Bacalaureat) (2016)

I’m going to say this right off the bat: About half an hour into Graduation, I found myself falling asleep. The style of this film is very slice-of-life, almost...

Linda