“Valentine’s Day is the most unnecessarily stressful holiday that isn’t New Year’s Eve. Couples risk being crushed under colossal expectations to come up with the perfect date, while the rest of us need to find someplace where we won’t feel self-conscious about being alone. As is my catch-all solution for most of life’s problems, I find going to the movies helps.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/08/2023
“The dual Swintons remain isolated within separate frames, while Hogg’s deliberately uncanny cutting underscores the psychological gulf between them. The Eternal Daughter isn’t a horror movie, but it’s haunted. The gothic trappings aren’t supernatural so much as they’re externalizations of the characters’ regrets. This is a hotel where you bring your own ghosts.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/06/2023
“Like an even more explicitly religious revision of Signs with a former wrestler instead of alien invaders. Behind the camera, Shyamalan is precise, inventive and keeps a lot of the action offscreen to make your mind do the dirty work. He also still can’t write, which is a problem when you’re trying to parse as many big ideas as this picture keeps throwing around.” – North Shore Movies, 02/03/2023
“There’s no way to look at the groundbreaking career achievements of Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno or Sally Field and feel good about watching this slapdash sponsored content, a shrine to an increasingly weird Florida Man producing his own unseemly vanity project. Is this the best Hollywood can offer these women who have given the movies so much?” – North Shore Movies, 02/02/2023
“Chopra will be back in the neighborhood this Friday night for a mini-retrospective in celebration of her recently released memoir Lady Director, a blisteringly candid and compulsively readable tell-all from a trailblazer who isn’t afraid to name names. The book arrives during an overdue reconsideration of a career stifled by chauvinism and Hollywood politics.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/01/2023
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