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EQUITY, INTO THE FOREST, NERVE, BAD MOMS, JASON BOURNE and Other Jluy 29 Openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin

July 31, 2016 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments bad moms, ellen page, EQUITY, gleason, hollywood beauty salon, jason bourne, meera menon, miss sharonjones, nerve, patricia rozema, shelley, tallulah

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Meera Menon’s Equity, a drama about a woman on Wall Street, steals this week’s top spot for feminist movie goers. Patricia Rozema’s Into the Forest, another film about female empowerment, stars Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood as sisters struggling to survive the terrifying circumstances of a massive power outage. Nerve is a femme-centric thriller about a high school senior (Emma Roberts) who signs on to play an edgy online real-time game of truth or dare, with cash prizes and consequences. Bad Moms is a raucous comedy that misses the mark, even for restless moms in need of comic relief. And, unfortunately, Jason is not Bourne again. Plus Tallulah, Shelley, Hollywood Beauty Salon, Miss Sharon Jones and Gleason. Read the reviews>>

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Jennifer Merin

Jennifer Merin is the Film Critic for Womens eNews and contributes the CINEMA CITIZEN blog for and is managing editor for Women on Film, the online magazine of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, of which she is President. She has served as a regular critic and film-related interviewer for The New York Press and About.com. She has written about entertainment for USA Today, The L.A. Times, US Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Endless Vacation Magazine, Daily News, New York Post, SoHo News and other publications. After receiving her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts (Grad Acting), Jennifer performed at the O'Neill Theater Center's Playwrights Conference, Long Wharf Theater, American Place Theatre and LaMamma, where she worked with renown Japanese director, Shuji Terayama. She subsequently joined Terayama's theater company in Tokyo, where she also acted in films. Her journalism career began when she was asked to write about Terayama for The Drama Review. She became a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor after writing an article about Marketta Kimbrell's Theater For The Forgotten, with which she was performing at the time. She was an O'Neill Theater Center National Critics' Institute Fellow, and then became the institute's Coordinator. While teaching at the Universities of Wisconsin and Rhode Island, she wrote "A Directory of Festivals of Theater, Dance and Folklore Around the World," published by the International Theater Institute. Denmark's Odin Teatret's director, Eugenio Barba, wrote his manifesto in the form of a letter to "Dear Jennifer Merin," which has been published around the world, in languages as diverse as Farsi and Romanian. Jennifer's culturally-oriented travel column began in the LA Times in 1984, then moved to The Associated Press, LA Times Syndicate, Tribune Media, Creators Syndicate and (currently) Arcamax Publishing. She's been news writer/editor for ABC Radio Networks, on-air reporter for NBC, CBS Radio and, currently, for Westwood One's America In the Morning. She is also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. For her AWFJ archive, type "Jennifer Merin" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).