NEWS OF THE WORLDMOVIE REVIEW After a spectacularly rough week (don’t ask), Bruce and I decided to have a date night, which in pandemic world meant he’d bring home take out after work. (Our two favorite places for special occasions are HAMILTON’S and ORZO.) However, Bruce wound up stuck in the clinic. By the time […]
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MISS JUNETEENTHMOVIE REVIEW Miss Juneteenth is a movie that I happened upon last night while scrolling through new releases. The film had premiered at Sundance this past January and that caught my eye. I had no idea what to expect. Channing Godfrey Peoples wrote and directed Miss Juneteenth. She did an excellent job with both.
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WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE?MOVIE REVIEW I thoroughly enjoyed Maria Semple’s quirky book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette and looked forward to viewing the movie adaptation. The day after it opened, I went to the theater with friends. Cate Blanchette is a spectacular actress. She played the part of Bernadette to perfection, with exactly the right amounts of
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LEAVE NO TRACEMOVIE REVIEW My husband and I watched Leave No Trace last night. He hated it. He thought the movie was bleak and sad. He felt furious with the father during the entire film. I loved the movie—the nuanced acting, the plot, the camerawork, the casting choices, the understated and unexpected way that the screenwriters,
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALKMOVIE REVIEW Every Friday, I read the movie reviews in The Washington Post.The articles usually help me find great films and steer away from bad ones, with one notable exception: Adam Sandler’s Punch Drunk Love. They liked it. I loathed it and loath is too nice a word for how I
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A QUIET PLACEMOVIE REVIEW I do not like horror movies. They scare me. Until recently, I’ve only watched two in my life: The Haunting of Hill Houseand The Sixth Sense. Here is a terrifying clip from The Haunting of Hill House. Don’t watch it. The scariest scene in The Sixth Sense is when kitchen cabinets
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THE DRESSMAKERMOVIE REVIEW The Dressmaker is a viewing experience you may want to miss. I normally love weird and quirky films, but this Australian movie ventured into the nether regions of weird and quirky, and not in a good way. Kate Winslet plays Tilly who, as a
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THE SHAPE OF WATERMOVIE REVIEW I just saw The Shape of Water. The movie was directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) and the screenplay was co-written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. This film is not for everyone. It was especially not for my movie companion who complained, “This is not realistic.” Set in
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BLUE JAYMOVIE REVIEW This made-for-Netflix indie movie is filmed in black and white, shows only two characters on screen, is slow-ish and has no soundtrack, except for a few tunes. Normally, that would be the kiss of death for me—I’d rather watch car insurance commercials or those pharmaceutical ads where they tell you how great
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MUDBOUNDMOVIE REVIEW I just watched the movie Mudbound. Set in the 1940’s in the Jim Crow south, the story is about two families who live side by side on a Mississippi cotton farm. The McAllans (white) own the failing farm and the Jacksons (black) work on it. A man from each family goes off to
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