Netflix Film About Anorexia Sparks Debate
Director Marti Noxon has been open about her past struggles with eating disorders and says she hopes her new film starring Lily Collins as Ellen, a young woman suffering from anorexia, will "serve as a...
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Dunkirk looks like a winner. The World War II movie about the evacuation of Allied troops from the city in France boasts a 92% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes , along with a 90% score from...
View ArticleThe Emoji Movie : 'A Force of Insidious Evil'
With a 3% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes , reviews of The Emoji Movie could have consisted of repeated strings of the vomiting emoji, thumbs-down emoji, and poop emoji. Fortunately for fans of...
View ArticleCoco Is a Feast for the Eyes and Ears
A 12-year-old boy with music in his heart finds himself transported to the Land of the Dead in Pixar's first feature film with a minority lead character, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina....
View ArticleNo Other Movie Has 100% Rating With So Many Reviews
The early reviews of the movie Lady Bird were fantastic, and that track record is holding up in unprecedented fashion. Slate points out that the movie written and directed by Greta Gerwig has just...
View ArticleThe Last Jedi 's Rotten Tomatoes Score Might Be Bogus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi has racked up plenty of favorable reviews en route to a 93% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes . But the film's audience rating, currently 55% after more than 124,000 user...
View ArticlePrepare to Be 'Shellshocked' by Annihilation
Often diverging from the Jeff VanderMeer novel that inspired it, Annihilation from writer-director Alex Garland sees five female specialists set out to explore something akin to a force field that has...
View ArticleSpielberg Gets Nostalgic in Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One , adapted from Ernest Cline's 2011 novel of the same name, is set in 2045, but it's clearly homesick for the 1980s. Packed with nostalgic references, it follows...
View ArticleGaga's 'Little Monsters' Are Attacking Venom , Russia-Style
A Star Is Born , the much-hyped Lady Gaga film directed by Bradley Cooper, hits theaters Friday, but so does the comic-book flick Venom , leading to what Quartz calls "2018's weirdest social media...
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