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Women Talking (2022)
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
I don’t quite think that Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a good movie, but it did manage to make me into a fan.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
It is a perilous path to remake a great film.
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Causeway (2022)
Here’s the logline of Causeway according to IMDb
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Call Jane (2022)
Call Jane is a breezy indie dramedy about back-alley abortions. Read that sentence again.
While it crosses over into something transgressive a few times — for example, a debate about who gets their limited free abortion slots (a rape victim, a 12 year old, etc.) that plays like dinnertime banter — but in general what’s most surprising about Call Jane is how down-the-middle and low-stakes the movie is given its subject matter.
The film presents itself as uplifting slice of feminism, which I suppose is part of the point: its characters (and its filmmakers) want to normalize reproductive rights the same we do voting rights and freedom of the press and the usual topics of films like this. But it still feels so tonally jarring to me.
It’s well-made enough as a production. Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver are reliably charismatic, and Cory Michael Smith gives the film a blast of dark wryness as the doctor performing the abortions. But it just feels a little bit baffling and off-key its whole runtime.
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M3GAN (2022)
Little girls are creepy, uncanny dolls are creepy, both have been frequently and successfully been transformed into horror icons in the past… por que no los dos?
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Snow Day (2022)
Typically when I spend most of the runtime wondering “Who was this movie made for?” I mean that as a negative.
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The Fabelmans (2022)
It is noteworthy on multiple levels that Steven Spielberg has a writing credit on The Fabelmans.
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The Menu (2022)
There is some irony inherent in writing and reading a review of a film like The Menu.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Guiellermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio does a bunch of little- to medium-sized things wrong, but none of them end up mattering very much because it is such a fundamentally good movie.