Carrie Coon – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

THE WHITE LOTUS Season 3 – Review by Susan Granger

March 31, 2025April 7, 2025 Susan Granger Carrie Coon, leslie bibb, michelle monaghan, mike white, natasha rothwell, Nicholas Duvernay, parker posey, series, The White Lotus: Season 3

Let’s be honest: Mike White’s The White Lotus: Season 3 isn’t as much fun as the previous two. The satirical anthology that began as a pandemic project on Maui in Hawaii has grown into a huge, Emmy Award-winning, globe-trotting franchise with a glamorous, exotic location and different cast of characters for each season. Epitomized by the menacing plethora of lizards and monkeys amid repetitive water imagery, Mike White’s dramatic narrative is darker and slower-paced, the multiple storylines and faked fantasies less compelling, the characters less empathetic, and the acerbic dialogue less biting about wealth and privilege

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LAKE GEORGE – Review by Nadine Whitney

November 26, 2024November 26, 2024 Nadine Whitney Carrie Coon, Jeffrey Reiner, Lake George, Max Kinsella, Shea Whigham

Writer director Jeffrey Reiner’s downbeat crime-comedy road trip Lake George is a masterclass from stars Carrie Coon and Shea Whigham in crafting characters it’s impossible not to root for. Although wearing its numerous influences on its sleeve, Reiner’s handling of tone in his (sunlight) neo-noir is nimble and sure footed enough to keep the audience from guessing exactly where and when the rug pulls will come. Sharp dialogue by Reiner delivered with significant comedic aplomb and dramatic pathos by Coon and Whigham makes Lake George a fine piece of entertainment relying on character over thrills. When Carrie Coon and Shea Whigham are in the driver’s seat as leads – it’s a thrill in itself.

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ANOTHER HAPPY DAY – Review by Betsy Pickle

September 26, 2024September 29, 2024 Betsy Pickle Another Happy Day, Carrie Coon, Lauren Lapkus, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Nora Fiffer, v

Irony is alive and well and busting out all over in Another Happy Day. A film that looks at the flipside of motherhood – the dark side, so to speak – it is simultaneously a horror show and an earnest drama with flashes of humor. A certain audience will identify with it quickly; other demographics might find it off-putting, and still others will see it as a mostly compelling learning experience.

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HIS THREE DAUGHTERS – Review by April Neale

August 29, 2024August 30, 2024 April Neale azazel jacobs, Carrie Coon, elizabeth olsen, His Three Daughters, Natasha Lyonne

Awaiting death is like a wedding in that family members, even estranged ones, are forced to come together to be present for the event. That is if the dying person is lucky enough to have a family to assemble. Enter Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon, the titular His Three Daughters, in a poignantly wry drama from Azazel Jacobs where these three sister are together again as they await their father Vince’s transition to the great beyond.

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GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

March 24, 2024March 28, 2024 Valerie Kalfrin Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Carrie Coon, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Finn Wolfhard, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Gil Kenan, ivan reitman, jason reitman, mckenna grace, paul rudd

Like its vault for containing trapped ghosts, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is creaky and overstuffed. Full of references to the 1984 original, it has a plot that’s more complicated that it needs to be, jarring errors in continuity and logic, and characters with little to do. That’s a shame because, along with a passionate fan base, the Ghostbusters franchise often mixes screwball shenanigans with heart. The gentle reboot of 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, while uneven, struck the right notes, following the daughter and grandchildren of Egon Spengler (the late Harold Ramis) in Oklahoma. The family uncovered a paranormal secret and reconnected with the surviving Ghostbusters, giving Egon a proper sendoff.

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THE GILDED AGE Season 2 – Review by Susan Granger

February 2, 2024February 5, 2024 Susan Granger Carrie Coon, christine baranski, cynthia nixon, Donna Murphy, hbo max, julian fellowes, Nathan Lane, series, The Gilded Age season 2

The second season of Julian Fellowes’ genteel, rococo soap-opera known as The Gilded Age finds ambitious 19th century NYC aristocrats dressed in bustles and top hats. Ambition meets its match as traditional customs collide with innovative schemes, proving that when the old rules don’t bend, something has to break, And since much of the filming took place in and around New York and Rhode Island, more than 60 of Broadway’s brightest musical stars comprise the cast, giving it a frivolous upstairs/downstairs aura – like ‘Downton Abbey Lite.’

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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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