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Preston Sturges’ escapist 1941 screwball comedy The Lady Eve is being re-issued by the BFI

Joyce Glasser reviews The Lady Eve (re-issue) from February 15, 2019, Cert. U, 92 min. Get ready to have some fun. The screwball comedy The Lady Eve is being re-issued by the BFI on an extended run fo ...

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Rosamund Pike gives an astonishing performance as the late war correspondent Marie Colvin

Joyce Glasser reviews A Private War (February 13, 2019), Cert. 15, 110 min. The title of Matthew Heineman’s unforgettable and powerful first feature film differentiates it from his documentary work ab ...

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Joel Edgerton co-stars with fellow Australians Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman in his directorial debut

Joyce Glasser reviews Boy Erased (February 8, 2019), Cert. 15, 115 min. Australian actor Joel Edgerton played a Navy Seal in Zero Dark Thirty (2012); the frosty socialite Tom Buchanan in The Great Gat ...

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Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s tragic love story

Joyce Glasser reviews If Beale Street Could Talk (February 8, 2019), Cert. 15, 119 min. There is a powerhouse combination at work here, with writer/director Barry Jenkins, whose film, Moonlight, famou ...

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