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Lovers Rock Is The Most Magical Sexy Party Of The Year (...
Exactly 34 minutes and 38 seconds into Lovers Rock, something magical happens. Lovers and friends attending a 1980 house party are dancing to Janet Kay’s
by Anne Cohen

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Run’s Kiera Allen Is An Action Star Like You’ve Never Se...
In 1948, The Sign of The Ram made Susan Peters the first actress and wheelchair user to star in a mainstream Hollywood thriller. More than 70 years later,
by Anne Cohen

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The Olsen Twins’ It Takes Two Is More Radical Than...
The day screenwriter Deborah Dean Davis got her first residuals check for It Takes Two, she had to take a second and sit on the floor. “I think the
by Anne Cohen

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Laura Dern’s Forgotten Teen Movie Smooth Talk Is A...
Thirty-three years before Greta Gerwig’s nomination for Best Director at the 2018 Academy Awards for Lady Bird, Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk won the Gran
by Anne Cohen

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The Wedding Planner Was An Average Rom-Com — J.Lo Made I...
Welcome to #R29MovieClub. We are taking “home theater” to a whole new level: Every Thursday at 5 p.m. ET, R29 is hosting a live rewatch of a beloved wo
by Anne Cohen

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Holidate Is Bad, But Emma Roberts Is Good
Emma Roberts has rom-coms in her blood. Her aunt, after all, is Julia Roberts, she of Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, While You Were Sleeping, My Best Friend?
by Anne Cohen

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Joey King Stars In October’s Most Haunting Movie Yet — & It All R...
Spooky season is upon us, and there’s no dearth of horror movies and TV shows to watch. But there’s a movie that’s haunted me more than the ghosts of
by Anne Cohen

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Make Way For Anne Hathaway, Grand High Witch Of Camp
Anne Hathaway’s back, baby! I mean, yes, okay, she never really left. In the last two years alone she’s starred in Netflix’s Joan Didion adaptation T
by Anne Cohen

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The Trial Of The Chicago 7 Is A Timely & Riveting Politi...
This story contains spoilers for The Trial of the Chicago 7, available to stream on Netflix October 16. Most of the action in The Trial of the Chicago 7
by Anne Cohen

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So… How Scary Is The Lie, Joey King’s New Ho...
This story contains spoilers for The Lie, available to stream on Amazon Prime Video October 6. As the title suggests, The Lie revolves around a big fat who
by Anne Cohen

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Where Is Our Flo Kennedy Biopic?
This story contains mild spoilers for The Glorias, out on Amazon Prime Video September 30. A pivotal scene in The Glorias, Julie Taymor’s artful and crea
by Anne Cohen

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How Miranda July & Evan Rachel Wood Created Kajillionaire’s
Kajillionaire opens with a family of con artists stealing mail from an L.A. post office. As Robert and Theresa Dyne (Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger) keep
by Anne Cohen

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Tayler Montague’s Stunning Short Film In Sudden Darkness...
Tayler Montague was 6 years old when the lights went out on August 14, 2003, in a mass power outage that would come to be known as the New York Blackout. F
by Anne Cohen

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Let’s Talk About The Ending Of Antebellum
This story contains spoilers for Antebellum, available on VOD September 18. “The past isn’t dead,” William Faulkner wrote in 1951’s Requiem F
by Anne Cohen

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13 TIFF 2020 Movies By & About Women Everyone Will Be Talking About
by Anne Cohen

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Roseanne Liang’s Shadow In The Cloud Casts Chloë G...
As Flight Officer Maude Garrett in Shadow In The Cloud, Chloë Grace Moretz faces not one, not two, not three, but four foes at once. Roseanne Liang’s pu
by Anne Cohen

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Sex, Death & Lox: Shiva Baby Is An Instant Coming-Of-Age...
Sometimes, you know in your bones a movie will be good just from its splashy premise. Other times, it sneaks up on you from an unexpected place, lodging it
by Anne Cohen

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The Broken Hearts Gallery Is The Purge, For Exes
Note: The Broken Hearts Gallery is a theatrical-only release. As a member of the press, I was able to watch this movie from the safety of my living room. I
by Anne Cohen

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Maïmouna Doucouré’s Netflix Film Became Controversial Overnight. ...
Filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré was at home in Paris, France, when suddenly her phone blew up. Unbeknownst to her, Netflix had just dropped the first promoti
by Anne Cohen

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6 Things You Never Knew About Bring It On, 20 Years Later
Welcome to #R29MovieClub. We are taking “home theater” to a whole new level: Every Thursday at 5 p.m. ET, R29 is hosting a live rewatch of a beloved wo
by Anne Cohen

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It’s Always A Good Time To Rewatch Whitney Houston In The Bod...
Whitney Houston didn’t originally want to be in The Bodyguard. Co-star Kevin Costner, then one of the most bankable male leads in Hollywood, stalled prod
by Anne Cohen

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What The End Credit Scene In An American Pickle Actually...
This story contains spoilers for An American Pickle, streaming on HBO Max August 6. An American Pickle is a very Jewish movie. In fact, Seth Rogen — who
by Anne Cohen

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Across The Universe Is A Cult Classic — So Why Doesn...
Welcome to #R29MovieClub. We are taking “home theater” to a whole new level: Every Thursday at 5 p.m. ET, R29 is hosting a live rewatch of a beloved wo
by Anne Cohen