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“My Best Friend’s Girl” – Maitland McDonagh reviews

September 22, 2008 Maitland McDonagh alliance of women film journalists, female critics, film criticism, film journalists, maitland mcdonagh, movie reviews, my best friend's girl, women critics, women film critics, women film directors, women film journalists, women in film

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The trouble with Howard Deutch and first-time screenwriter Jordan Cahan’s sniggering comedy of modern romance isn’t that it’s relentlessly vulgar, coarse and juvenile. It’s that it lacks the courage of its swinish convictions, and abruptly acquiesces to bland rom-com clichés three-quarters of the way to its appointed end. Read more>>

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Maitland McDonagh

Formerly TVGuide.com's senior movies editor/reviewer, Maitland McDonagh now has her own site, Miss FlickChick.com, and freelances for Film Comment, Time Out NY and other publications. She has written four books -- Broken Mirrors Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe, The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time and Movie Lust -- and contributed to many others, including Film Out of Bounds, Fantasy Females, The Last Great American Picture Show and Exile Cinema. Read McDonagh's recent artilces below. For her Women On Film archive, type "Maitland McDonagh" into the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).

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18 Sep

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10 Jul

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