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Television Review: “The School for Good and Evil” — Too Complicated for its Own Good

October 24, 2022
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Based on the YA series by Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil offers little that is new about the adventures of discontented adolescents.

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Film Review: “Bombshell” — Shock and Awe

December 21, 2019
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Bombshell takes a stand, looking to portray its besieged women as complex, flawed human beings who also happen to be the victims of sexual harassment.

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Film Review: “Dark Places” — This is No “Gone Girl”

August 8, 2015
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Dark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.

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Film Review: “North Country” — Of Sex and Harassment

October 19, 2005
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The new film North Country gives superb dramatic life to a fictionalized version of the first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit in the U.S. By Betsy Sherman Niki Caro’s last movie on female empowerment, Whale Rider, was about an exotic culture and centered on an irresistible girl with royal blood in her veins. Caro’s new film…

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