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6 hours ago · The tension of those encounters, and how women are forced to handle, and suffer, the bruised egos of men, fuels “Woman of the Hour,” a sometimes awkwardly plotted but consistently insightful thriller about the anxiety of the female experience and the grim game of constantly weighing the threat of potential danger in men.
1 day ago · Anna Kendrick’s director debut is a smash. It’s easily the best and most bone-chilling scene in the movie. Kendrick displays an obsession with moments gone wrong by having their invented date ...
3 hours ago · Anna Kendrick directs for the first time and also stars in this gripping drama, written by Ian McDonald and based on the true-life crimes of serial killer and rapist Rodney Alcala in California and New York in the 1970s (Alcala died in prison in 2021, after evading arrest for decades). The focus is firmly on the women victims, though it’s ...
1 day ago · Penned by Ian McDonald (“Some Freaks”), “Woman of the Hour” tells the tale of the compulsively violent Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) from the perspectives of his victims and survivors. While that is laudable, it also leads to the tale lacking a narrative anchor. Of the women, we spend the most time with Kendrick’s Sheryl, said to be ...
1 day ago · A serial killer taking part in a game show sounds like a nasty joke dreamt up in a true-crime podcast studio. Anna Kendrick’s lucid, precise debut feature Woman Of The Hour revisits the stranger ...
Feb 13, 2021 · Mona Fastvold's feverish frontier drama The World to Come, out today, becomes the latest entry in that burgeoning genre — a love story of deep and delicate feeling if not strict originality (see...
Feb 12, 2021 · A secluded homestead pitched amid icy woods is aptly the first image we see in “The World to Come,” Mona Fastvold’s monotonously mannered 19th century frontier romance that sparks between two lonely women.
