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Moxie: Too Much Rage, Not Enough Discourse

Netflix’s new teen comedy Moxie — directed by Amy Poehler, who also stars as the protagonist’s mother — aims for riot grrrl rage and radical girl power action, and tries its best to be intersectional with its stellar cast. The…

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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things Carves Out its Space in the Increasingly Crowded Time Loop Genre

When The Groundhog Day came out twenty-eight years ago, who would have thought it would launch a genre of time loop movies almost two decades afterwards? But that has indeed been the case: from slashers like the Happy Death Day…

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To All the Boys: Always and Forever Ends the Trilogy in Grounded Fashion, Anchored Around the Leads’ Great Chemistry with Each Other

To All The Boys I Loved Before was part of Netflix’s 2018 wave of romcom revivals. While there were other good movies like Always Be My Maybe, it’s All The Boys that spawned two sequels. While the first sequel, To…

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Cursed Reimagines Arthurian Legend, Struggles to Find its Voice in First Season

Cursed reorients the traditional Arthurian legend with more modern, YA sensibilities. It’s both a prequel and a reimagining, taking place during the reign of Uther Pendragon, as the future Lady of the Lake, Nimue (Katherine Langford) is sent on a…