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Review of True Things (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 09 Sep 2022

Harry Wootliff’s True Things is a raw and passionate look at the type of love that can be both all-encompassing and destructive, passionate…

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Review of Girl Picture (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 11 Aug 2022

Girl Picture is a thoughtful, funny, and empathetic look at lives in flux…

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Review of Mack & Rita (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 10 Aug 2022

Mack & Rita is silly, but it’s a strong, necessary kind of silly, a warm and embracing kind of silly…

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Review of Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 04 Aug 2022

There’s an inherent push and pull to Bodies Bodies Bodies, a movie that wants to be a send-up for a certain type of young person but also…

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Review of How to Please a Woman (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 20 Jul 2022

Without a commitment to its tone, How To Please A Woman might help its titular woman, but it leaves its audience quite dissatisfied…

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Review of Brian and Charles (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 15 Jun 2022

Earl and Hayward developed these characters first as a live stand-up show and then in a short film, and natural chemistry and cheeky rapport…

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Review of Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 07 Jun 2022

Malmberg’s documentary is quick to gloss over rough patches in both Mickey and Disney’s shared histories…

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Review of After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 02 Jun 2022

For all its provocations, After Blue (Dirty Paradise) is rote and tedious…

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Review of Showing Up (2023)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 28 May 2022

Showing Up is perhaps Reichardt’s most grounded and least impressionistic film, but it is still more than thoughtful and enjoyable and beautiful…

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Review of The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Apr 2022

Given how much of the new material on Monroe is audio-based, one is left wondering why a project like this wouldn’t work better as a podcast…

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Review of The Contractor (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 31 Mar 2022

Though the first act of The Contractor is its lengthiest, the lazy pace does nothing to enrich the lives of the characters who we know are…

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Review of Umma (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 17 Mar 2022

The most frightening part of Umma is not the ghostly apparition of Amanda’s mother, but Amanda herself…

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Review of To Leslie (2022)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for TheWrap (3,203) on 16 Mar 2022

Full-hearted, albeit conventional ... That long first act feels, at times, punishing…

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