‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ movie review on Netflix

Jessica Noll’s 2015 novel The luckiest girl alive Pick up lightning in a bottle. This is a cliché made of nausea, but there is simply no other way to describe its unique presence. It was not only Knoll’s first novel, but it also hit hundreds of thousands of readers like a ton of bricks. Two years before the viral #MeToo movement emerged, The luckiest girl alive It offered a heartwarmingly candid portrait of a woman grappling with the ongoing trauma of a teenage sexual assault and the disturbing events that…

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The Rare Marvel Series That Should Be Longer

While most other broadcast series can be improved with fewer episodes, Marvel is taking the opposite direction werewolf at night, a standalone event around Halloween that runs in less than an hour, although it likely would have benefited from the run twice. Back in the classic Universal monster movies, this small-screen black and white special — which arrived at Disney+ October 7 — has clever arrogance, a cool vibe, and a subtle sense of humor that suggests it might have worked out quite well. Length feature. In its current form,…

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‘Wahl Street’ season 2 review

It may be Warner Bros. Discovery has knocked dozens of movies and shows out of existence, but hey — at least we still have a Mark Wahlberg movie Wall Street. Project Vanity’s mega-project returns Thursday to HBO Max for a second 10-episode season that, at least early on, looks like it could strip the brand and guts and show us who the actor and entrepreneur really is. Unfortunately… nah. A “documentary series” about Wahlberg produced by one of his production companies, Street and It offers a curated window into Wahlberg’s…

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‘Master Gardener’ review – Paul Schrader’s latest work is surprisingly post-Trump drama

For a writer and director who enjoys traversing the mystery and pent-up violence of the human spirit, Paul Schrader’s latest film, Mr. BostaniWell, it’s very fun. This especially comes as a surprise after the harshness of his last two films, first fix And the card counter. Until now Mr. Bostani He is still able to form a semi-trilogy in Schrader’s filmography, with his predecessors: as in these two films, Schrader has Mr. Bostani With another stifling man, alone in a room, he sucks in the state of the world through…

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‘Even’ review – Emmett Till Biopic does its best with tough stuff

Few non-activist figures from the civil rights era have captured the American consciousness as Emmett Till. In 1955, 14-year-old Chicagoan was brutally murdered by two white men while visiting Mississippi; He had been accused of whistling to one of their wives, Caroline Bryant, at a grocery store. The US Congress passed the Emmett Act to Combat Premeditated Homicide in March, 67 years after his death. And Hollywood has taken on the task of honoring the memory of Emmett (and his mother, Mamie Tell-Mable), with two separate projects this year. First…

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“On the Come Up” review

A certain skill is required in depicting the journey of the aspiring musician and making the audience invest in his dreams, whether it be the talented or the charismatic ally in 2018. A star is born Or someone of average ambition like Paper Boi in FX Atlanta. This was no clearer to me than when I sat down to watch things frustratingly dull and out of touch to go outParamount + is a new movie based on the 2019 Angie Thomas novel of the same name about an aspiring teenage…

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‘Catherine Called Birdy’ review – Coming of age Lena Dunham will charm your socks

There’s a rule of thumb when it comes to period movies: if a track has an outdated soundtrack, it’s going to kill you. Catherine is called Birdie gracefully falls into this category. Lena Dunham’s new movie is practically full of joy, a delightful, coming-of-age theatrical soundtrack to the gritty covers of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” and Supergrass’ “Okay.” Follow the likes of Sofia Coppola Marie Antoinette “name The Apple TV + gem DickinsonAnd the Catherine is called Birdie It tells about a young girl who lives in England in…

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Nice meeting on peacock review

movie like nice meetingThe time-travel rom-com now airing on Peacock and starring Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson, couldn’t come up with expectations. Ask one person if this premise is good for them, and they may look at you as if you just crawled out of a sewer and started moving toward them at an uncomfortable rapid pace. Ask someone else, and you’ll get a brow of anticipation: “Okay! That sounds fun. I love Kali in hostess. Is Pete still dating Kim Kardashian? “ In the end, not knowing what or…

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‘Reboot’ on Hulu Review – A hilarious meta comedy from Stephen Levitan, creator of ‘Modern Family’

Revived movies and TV shows go to great lengths to avoid calling them the hateful term “reboot.” You’ll often hear the people behind this type of content refer to them as a “re-imagining” to lessen the stigma – as if Hester Prine insisted that the crimson letter on her chest denotes “independent”. It’s a more attractive word, but at the end of the day, everyone still understands that we’re talking about a piece of media that has been dug out of the tomb, dusted off, and sprinkled with some fresh…

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‘Take Revenge’ on Netflix Review – A Generation Defining Teen Movie

Each contract can only one sport really amazing High school movie. Sorry, but that’s the way it goes. Think of it as the Queen Bee: a movie that stands out from the crowd of wannabe people, its less savvy themes, its originality, and its lasting impact that can be seen immediately. Obviously, there can be no two queens. Sure, these standouts are often a paraphrase of their predecessors – there’s nothing new under the Alicia Silverstone sun. But the secret to becoming the only teenage dream movie to rule the…

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