Carrie Coon – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

BOSTON STRANGLER – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

April 3, 2023April 9, 2023 Valerie Kalfrin alessandro nivola, Boston Strangler, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, hulu, Jean Cole, keira Knightly, Loretta McLaughlin, Matt Ruskin, Record American

The Hulu crime drama Boston Strangler is a decent journalism time capsule that aligns more with 2015’s Spotlight than with a suspenseful thriller like Silence of the Lambs. A mood piece with a core mystery much like 2007’s Zodiac—complete with similar gray-green cinematography and lighting—the film focuses more on the women journalists who broke the story of this real-life 1960s serial killer than the investigation itself. The insider’s view of the newsroom and the sexism these women faced proves compelling, although true crime fans will find the procedural details and ambivalent resolution frustrating.

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GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE – Review by Susan Granger

January 11, 2022January 15, 2022 Susan Granger Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE, jason reitman, mckenna grace, olivia wilde

Ghostbusters: Afterlife, as a new generation battles the spirit world. Directed by Jason Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman who directed the first two 1980s movies, it’s a continuation of the story from Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, including original cast members, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver.

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THE NEST – Review by Susan Granger

January 21, 2021January 22, 2021 Susan Granger Carrie Coon, jude law, sean durkin, the nest

In the 1980s, one of the Ladies’ Home Journal’s most popular features was “Can This Marriage Be Saved?” drawing from the files of marital therapists and counselors. Following that model, writer/director Sean Durkin introduces hot-shot British commodities broker Rory O’Hara who leaves Wall Street to return to the U.K. with his American wife Allison, an avid equestrian, and two children: young Benjamin and his teenage half-sister Samantha.

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THE NEST – Brandy McDonnell reviews

September 24, 2020September 27, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments Carrie Coon, jude law, sean durkin, the nest

The auteur, who broke out with the acclaimed 2011 psychological drama “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” has recruited two of the best actors working today to roost in “The Nest”: Jude Law (the “Sherlock Holmes” series) and Carrie Coon (“Gone Girl”).

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THE NEST – Review by Martha K Baker

September 18, 2020September 19, 2020 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments Carrie Coon, jude law, sean durkin, the nest

Director Sean Durkin made Mary Marcy May Marlene in 2011, then lapsed until writing and directing The Nest this year. Both films are opaque, unresolved, mysterious, tense, and unsatisfying. Like MMMM, The Nest pretends to art, so do not expect the film to explain the title. No nest here.

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WIDOWS – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

November 9, 2018November 10, 2018 MaryAnn Johanson 0 Comments Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Debicki, Gillian Flynn, liam neeson, michelle rodriguez, steve mcqueen, viola davis, widows

“This is not your world,” someone — a man — says to Veronica Rawlings in the aftermath of the death of her husband, Harry. The man is talking about the Chicago criminal underworld in which Harry was a very successful mover — until he no longer was — but he might as well be talking about the whole big wide world.