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Amy Schumer made a name for herself as a stand-up comic and then with her sketch comedy show and then her memoir. Audiences already know she’s a snappy writer. With em>Life & Beth, she proves she has endurance as an actor. She plays the part of Beth, which is also Schumer’s middle name.
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No matter how much you want to feel amused by I Feel Pretty, you’ll have to settle for merely musing.
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Certainly no one knew that Amy Schumer’s ‘empowerment’ comedy would be released the same week that intrepid Southwest Airlines pilot
Read more‘Snatched’ fits the pattern for gross-out movies. Eight joke ops. Count ’em: eight. Some produce outright laughter; others just acknowledge
Read moreGoofy comedienne Goldie Hawn (“Overboard,” “Bird on a Wire”) hasn’t made a film in 15 years, so I was really
Read moreThe dearth of female protagonists doesn’t represent the box-office success of women-led films. Still, “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World” found
Read moreTrainwreck writer and star Amy Schumer is being lauded not only as Hollywood’s new “it” girl but also as its
Read moreDespite Amy Schumer’s considerable contributions, Trainwreck rides like a turn-around-is-fair-play sequel to Judd Apatow’s male-centric comedies. A woman is the
Read moreConfession: I had never seen Amy Schumer on Comedy Central, so her earthy brand of brash humor was, at first,
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