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Alone Together joins a lengthy roster of films that fail to live up to promise. It’s also one of those films that calls for interrogation: Where does it go wrong? Who is to blame? How much time does it deserve in the viewing before the leaving? Looking for someone to blame means glancing no further than the triplicated credit: Katie Holmes not only stars in Alone Together but also wrote and directed it.
Read moreA War, nominated for 2016’s best foreign film Oscar, is a beautifully crafted drama about Danish soldiers deployed to Afghanistan
Read moreTo quote the Beyonce song used in one of Pitch Perfect 2’s musical numbers, girls do indeed run the world
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Opening April 1, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Woman in Gold, director Simon Curtis’ follow-up to 2011’s My Week With Marilyn. It stars Helen Mirren as real-life Jewish refugee Maria Altmann who, in later life, fought to recover family artwork stolen by the Nazis.
Read moreOn one raucous night before an ill-fated WASP-y seaside wedding on posh Long Island, an eclectic group of close friends,
Read moreHow to garner Hollywood’s approval: Bake cookies, be gorgeous–or ugly!–and, whatever else you do, don’t be your own person. It’s
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