Diane English, “The Women” and Women Critics – Jennifer Merin comments
Diane English showed up for the New York press day for “The Women” wearing a blush-colored satin Valentino. It was
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“The Women” – Maitland McDonagh reviews
Diane English’s long-gestating remake of Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 bitchfest is so consistently, outrageously wrongheaded in every way it’s hard
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Just as some people are trying to convince women to support another woman for national office, would it follow women
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Somehow, Diane English has managed to make the “Sex and the City” movie look like a documentary. With her remake
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English treats “The Women” too much like a sitcom and not enough like a movie. Beyond her draggy pacing and
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If I hadn’t known this was written and directed by a woman, I’d have sworn it was the mean-spirited invention
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If they’re going to retool a beloved movie, filmmakers should at least try to capture the spirit of the original.
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Yet in spite of the casting and honorable revamps, it feels more dated than the 1939 original did for its
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“The cast is great and you want to go out to dinner with them, but you don’t want to see
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Nice message, if one with considerably less bite than the source material. English has taken Luce’s insight that for women,
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