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4/5
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Ralph Breaks the Internet
(2018)
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Cate Young
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While the film feels overstuffed at points ( ... ) the core story between Ralph and Vanellope is touching and shows what can happen when love curdles into possession.
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5/5
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Nothing to Hide
(2018)
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Cate Young
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As the motivations and secrets of these characters trickle out, we get a very affecting portrait of how relationships suffer when communication breaks down.
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2/5
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
(2018)
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Cate Young
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J.K. Rowling is leading the charge in destroying the thing so many have loved, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is proof.
Posted Mar 10, 2019
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4/5
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I Am Not an Easy Man
(2018)
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Cate Young
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[T]he film inadvertently sidelines the value of real world femininity as something that has to be shed in order to attain power.
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4/5
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Cam
(2018)
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Cate Young
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Cam offers few answers as to the nature of the film's malevolence but it does an excellent job of demonstrating the stigmas that sex workers face even in the digital world.
Posted Mar 10, 2019
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5/5
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Searching
(2018)
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Cate Young
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The real star of the film is the technology [...] Password protected accounts are a short confirmation email away, and geo-tags reveal more history than an interrogation.
Posted Mar 10, 2019
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4/5
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The Little Hours
(2017)
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Cate Young
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The film's strength is in the contrast between its medieval setting and its contemporary sexual politics. The women are all engage in forbidden sexual activity with abandon.
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2/5
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Love, Simon
(2018)
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Cate Young
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Simon never gives his friends the chance to rally around him, instead tricking them into situations that benefit only him.
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4/5
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Battle of the Sexes
(2017)
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Cate Young
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Battle of the Sexes [makes] for an arresting narrative that is never undercut by that fact that its main plot is "spoiled" by history.
Posted Mar 10, 2019
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3/5
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Ingrid Goes West
(2017)
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Cate Young
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[T]he film loses the plot on being the witty commentary about pretending and public image in the social media age, but it's still an entertaining romp from start to finish.
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3/5
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Been So Long
(2018)
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Cate Young
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For a musical film, [it's] not very musical at all, with a discordant soundtrack that sounds like castoff 90s R&B and vocalists not up to the task of meeting the melodies.
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4/5
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Hereditary
(2018)
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Cate Young
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How do we keep our wits about is when all that is left behind for us is chaos, confusion and fear? ( ... ) it is generational trauma that is the Big Bad for a new generation.
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4/5
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Reversing Roe
(2018)
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Cate Young
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Largely the fight [about abortion] is in the language, and the right's expert ability to reframe discussions on their own terms.
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1/5
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(2017)
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Cate Young
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While Frances McDormand's performance works hard to be enough to recommend the film, there is nothing redeeming about the narrative ( ... ).
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2/5
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I Feel Pretty
(2018)
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Cate Young
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The story's biggest problem is that it [is] unclear why Renée couldn't simply have put a little more effort into dressing in a way that makes her feel confident ( ... ).
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5/5
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
(2017)
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Cate Young
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[I]ts pervasive bubbly effervescence sets it apart from other depictions of the character (... ). Marvel's Peter Parker is young, bright and eager to participate.
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3/5
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I, Tonya
(2017)
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Cate Young
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Harding isn't blameless or even necessarily good. She's simply a woman who had one good thing and wanted the chance to show that she was more than disposable ( ... ).
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4/5
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Beauty and the Beast
(2017)
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Cate Young
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The story itself will always be fundamentally anti-feminist (...) [b]ut the efforts to update [it] to better suit a contemporary sensibility are acknowledged and appreciated.
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3/5
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Get Out
(2017)
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Cate Young
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The film has clever ideas about literalizing black fear of the pathology of whiteness, but it doesn't go far enough in its indictment of white supremacy.
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2/5
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Passengers
(2016)
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Cate Young
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One can either make a thriller about existential threats in the emptiness of space or love lost to time, but this film lacks the skill needed to successfully blend the two.
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5/5
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Mad Max: Fury Road
(2015)
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Cate Young
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In Mad Max: Fury Road, the "strong female characters" are notable specifically for their aversion to violence.
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3/5
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Half of a Yellow Sun
(2013)
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Cate Young
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Half Of A Yellow Sun is a compelling drama [that] ( ... ) form[s] a timeless tribute to the resistance of the human spirit in the face of war time struggle.
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2/5
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Downsizing
(2017)
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Cate Young
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Downsizing is mostly a disappointment because it feels like a waste of a brilliant idea.
Posted Mar 05, 2019
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4/5
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Una
(2016)
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Cate Young
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Mara has an intensity that is unsettling and disquieting and she wields it here in ways that dare you to flinch in her presence.
Posted Mar 05, 2019
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