‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ Is All Party, Not Much Hangover
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again offers a silly, sad, apolitical and ultimately joyful look at love, loss, and embracing the future.
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Tribeca 2018: ‘Netizens’ and ‘Every Act of Life’
These important documentaries about online abuse and the works of Terrence McNally attempt to illuminate empathy and social awareness at a time when it is being woefully ignored.
‘The Post’ Is an Exhilarating Love Letter to Journalistic Integrity
Spielberg's inspired rabblerousing may be preaching to the choir, but it's a damn good sermon.
The Surprisingly Entertaining, Eccentric ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’
Screeching her way to another successful performance, Meryl Streep makes Florence Foster Jenkins much more than the traditional historic biopic.
Even Meryl Streep Can’t Save ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ from Postmodern Pretense
The French Lieutenant’s Woman has not aged well, and this has to do with the failure of postmodernism and poststructuralism to contribute anything useful to popular culture.
In ‘The Bridges of Madison County’, Meryl Streep Proves She Is the Author of Her Films
It takes a superior actress to convey a character’s entire history in one scene, and in this film, at least, Meryl Streep does it masterfully.