Freud asked, “What does a woman want?” And Marvel seemed to have found an answer with Captain Marvel, which made a billion dollars telling the story of a gaslit supergal who rose up and triumphed over all the dudes who ever told her she wasn’t strong enough to play with …
Freud asked, “What does a woman want?” And Marvel seemed to have found an answer with Captain Marvel, which made a billion dollars telling the story of a gaslit supergal who rose up and triumphed over all the dudes who ever told her she wasn’t strong enough to play with …
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Freud asked, “What does a woman want?” And Marvel seemed to have found an answer with Captain Marvel, which made a billion dollars telling the story of a gaslit supergal who rose up and triumphed over all the dudes who ever told her she wasn’t strong enough to play with …
Sticky seriocomedy, from a second-rate stage play by Scott McPherson, concerning the reunion of two middle-aged sisters after one of them is diagnosed with leukemia: all of the characters are at least half-cracked; most of them more than half. Meryl Streep, as a chain-smoking cosmetologist and single mom, is typically …
A sympathetic take on highly imaginative Mark Hogancamp, an Upstate New Yorker whose 2000 trauma (loss of memory and more, due to a vicious beating by bar louts) led him to create a therapeutic world of military dress-up dolls and sexy little vamps. Their WWII in Marwencol, a toy-scale Belgian …
A strange flower grants a girl magic powers in Hiromasa Yonebayashi's animated adaptation of Mary Stewart's "The Little Broomstick."
Fifteen years after Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, director Garth Davis offers a sort of spiritual and tonal counterpoint: a Jesus story that stresses what might be called the more feminine aspect of his visit to earth — told, fittingly enough, through his relationship with the woman whom …
Julie Andrews's albatross. With Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns; directed by Robert Stevenson.
The love and honor that director Rob Marshall and all concerned bear for Walt Disney’s beloved original is palpable throughout this supremely well-meaning sequel, which finds the numinous nanny (played here with smirking sternness by Emily Blunt) returning to her post just as one of her charges — now grown-up, …
Musical-mangler, Rob Marshall (Chicago, Nine) tries his hand at trouncing a Disney classic.
Near the end of Josie Rourke’s pox-and-all rendition of Mary Stuart’s misadventures in monarchy (at the outset, she is former Queen of France, current Queen of Scotland, and hopeful Queen of England), the beleaguered Catholic asks her Protestant cousin Elizabeth (Margot Robbie), “How did it come to this?” We know …
It's too late. Too late, that is, to overturn conclusively the long-held belief that no variation on the Jekyll-and-Hyde theme, no matter how twisted and remote (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, The Nutty Professor, even Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype), could ever fail entirely to resonate. Jekyll and Hyde ... …