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Review of Gender Wars (2015)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 28 Sep 2017

It's not just about tennis-it's also about giving respect to women as human beings and recognizing their aspirations and achievements…

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Review of Battle of the Sexes (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 28 Sep 2017

It's not just about tennis-it's also about giving respect to women as human beings and recognizing their aspirations and achievements…

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Review of Rebel in the Rye (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 14 Sep 2017

Rebel in the Rye is not so much terrible as it is thoroughly mediocre, and thus exactly the sort of thing that Salinger and his most famous…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 24 Aug 2017

If you can overlook the many problems with Good Time's plot, there are a lot of things to like about it…

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Review of The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 24 Aug 2017

I swear at first I thought The Only Living Boy in New York was a satire, beginning as it does with a voiceover of the grumpy old man variety…

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Review of Brigsby Bear (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 10 Aug 2017

a fairly excruciating way to spend an evening…

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Review of Dunkirk (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 20 Jul 2017

[Dunkirk delivers] film-going experience that is more visceral than intellectual or emotional…

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Review of The Journey (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 20 Jul 2017

Even if you don't know much about the Troubles, you can still admire the excellent acting in The Journey, but if you have some knowledge of…

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Review of The Big Sick (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 06 Jul 2017

Turning your own life into material for a show is the most stand-up thing in the world, but it's seldom done as skillfully as in this film…

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Review of The Hero (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 29 Jun 2017

[features] strong performances, beautiful cinematography (the Los Angeles coast has never looked better than it does through Rob Givens…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 29 Jun 2017

Longtime Coppola collaborators Anne Ross (production design) and Stacey Battat (costume design) achieve just the right note of frayed gentility…

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Review of Beatriz at Dinner (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 22 Jun 2017

Beatriz at Dinner is too on the nose to be a great film, but it's still thought-provoking and entertaining…

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Review of My Cousin Rachel (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 08 Jun 2017

My Cousin Rachel is a damp squib: a melodrama without the drama, a romance with no spark, and a thriller whose every twist and turn is obvious…

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Review of Megan Leavey (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 08 Jun 2017

director Gabriela Cowperthwaite hits all the expected beats in this coming-of-age tale, but with enough unexpected details that they seem…

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Review of It Comes at Night (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 08 Jun 2017

It Comes at Night is technically accomplished-in fact it looks exactly like a film that made the most of a small budget-and the acting is good…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 01 Jun 2017

Wonder Woman is a different kind of superhero film…

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Review of The Wedding Plan (2016)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 25 May 2017

The success of The Wedding Plan rests largely on Koler's performance…

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Review of Chuck (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 18 May 2017

Its greatest gift is that it doesn't try to make too much of his central character…

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Review of The Lovers (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 18 May 2017

Here's my message to Hollywood: Send more Debra Winger…

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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 18 May 2017

a conventional sci-fi film so completely lacking in the spark that made [Scott's] previous work so compelling…

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