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GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS (Tribeca 2026) – Review by Nadine Whitney

June 12, 2026 Nadine Whitney Ben Wang, David Wain, elizabeth banks, Fred Melamed, Gail Daughtry and The Celebrity Sex Pass, Henry Winkler, jennifer aniston, John Slattery, Ken Marino, paul rudd, Weird Al Yankovich, Zoe Deutch

Wain’s fish-out-of-water comedy relies heavily on increasingly ridiculous situations to carry the comedy. No stranger to getting silly, Filmmaker David Wain’s satire is very rarely anything but silly. Charming performances by Deutch and especially Slattery, Wang, and very game Jon Hamm can’t glue the “situational” aspect of the film together to form something particularly sustained and more than occasionally funny. Set piece after set piece grows tiring even if you’re on board with the over-the-top nature of everything.

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THE MORNING SHOW Season 3 – Review by Susan Granger

July 17, 2024July 20, 2024 Susan Granger Charlotte Stoudt, drama series, emmys, jennifer aniston, Jon Hamm, reese witherspoon, The Morning Show

With 16 Emmy nominations, The Morning Show has finally become a major contender in the 2024 Drama Series race as showrunner Charlotte Stoudt catapulted it into the modern-day media crisis era with its 10-episode third season. New York City-based anchorwomen Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) are now on very different paths. What will become of compelling former UBA CEO Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) who over-leveraged the company but was fired because of his questionable romantic relationship with Bradley? And will there be a place for Bradley’s now-ex, NBN anchor Laura Peterson (Julianna Margulies)?

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Aniston/Witherspoon’s MORNING SHOW sets Season Three Premiere – Brandy McDonnell reports

August 12, 2023August 13, 2023 Brandy McDonnell Apple TV+, Billy Crudup, Charlotte Stoudt, Greta Lee, jennifer aniston, Jon Hamm, julianna margulies, Karen Pittman, mark duplass, Mimi Leder, Nestor Carbonell, nicole beharie, Nicole Beharie and Julianna Margulies, reese witherspoon, The Morning Show, the week in women, twiw

Apple TV+ will premiere next month the highly anticipated third season of The Morning Show, starring and executive produced by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. In Season 3, the future of the network is thrown into question and loyalties are pushed to the brink when a tech titan takes an interest in UBA. Unexpected alliances form, private truths are weaponized, and everyone is forced to confront their core values both in and out of the newsroom. The Emmy-, SAG- and Critics Choice Award-winning drama, which has already received an early renewal for Season 4, is directed and executive produced by Mimi Leder.

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DUMPLIN’ – Review by Lois Alter Mark

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 Lois Alter Mark 0 Comments anne fletcher, danielle macdonald, dolly parton, DUMPLIN, jennifer aniston, motw, Movie of the Week

A movie called Dumplin’ could go either way but, thanks to an appealing cast and feel-good message, this one is a winner. Despite the fact that her mom is former beauty queen, plus-size teen Willowdean is comfortable in her own skin. She enters the local Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant, becoming a role model for other unlikely entrants.

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DUMPLIN’ – Review by Susan Granger

December 25, 2018December 30, 2018 Susan Granger 0 Comments anne fletcher, danielle Macdonand, DUMPLIN, jennifer aniston

Since the plot pivots on Dolly Parton songs and the country singer serves as a role model, it’s a major disappointment that Dolly never actually appears in this homespun coming-of-age comedy, set in Clover City, Texas.

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DUMPLIN’ – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

December 10, 2018December 15, 2018 MaryAnn Johanson 0 Comments danielle macdonald, DUMPLIN, jennifer aniston, motw, movieof the week

Dumplin’ is far from perfect, but it’s lovely — kinda like its heroine! — a movie that warmly embraces a wide(ish) range of girls-and-women-as-people, one that doesn’t reduce its large heroine to nothing more than her size: she’s simply a cool, funny, confused, perplexed, messed-up human being who still has a lot of growing up to do.

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THE YELLOW BIRDS — Review by Jennifer Merin

June 8, 2018August 14, 2018 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments alden ehrenreich, alxandre moors, jennifer aniston, Toni Collette, Tye Sheridan, yellow birds

>Alexandre Moors’ powerful drama shatters notions that going to war makes heroes of ordinary men. Neither Bartle (Alden Ehrenreich), age

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AWFJ EDA Awards for Best of 2016

December 26, 2016August 30, 2024 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments annettebening, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Bridget Jones's Baby, EDA Awards, eda awards 2016, elle, isabellehuppert, jennifer aniston, Kelly Reichardt, Moonlight, Ruth Negga, twentieth century women

The women of AWFJ have voted! The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce the winners of the tenth annual AWFJ EDA Awards. This year, AWFJ presents EDA Awards in 25 categories, divided into three sections: the standard ‘Best Of’ section, the Female Focus awards and the irreverent EDA Special Mention awards—including Actress Most in Need of a New Agent and the AWFJ Hall of Shame Award. Read on…

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MOTHER’S DAY – Review by Susan Granger

April 29, 2016June 8, 2020 Susan Granger 0 Comments garry marshall, jennifer aniston, jennifer garner, mothers day

Perhaps the best that can be said about this cringe-worthy rom-com is that octogenarian Garry Marshall has assured his continuing

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, Aug 10 – Aug. 16: SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY

August 10, 2015August 16, 2015 Nikki Baughan 0 Comments Imogen Poots, jennifer aniston, Kathryn Hahn, owen wilson, Pam Grady, peter bogdanovich, Rhys Ifans, Sandra Kraisirideja, screwball comedy, She's Funny That Way, Will Forte

Opening August 14, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is She’s Funny That Way, the new film from actor/writer/director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show). Described as a screwball comedy in the same vein as Bogdanovich’s 1972 classic What’s Up Doc?, it follows the interconnected lives of the cast and crew of a Broadway show. The all-star ensemble features Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Owen Wilson and Will Forte, among others. Read on…

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