Author: Kate Erbland
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‘Palo Alto’ Review: Nat Wolff Is King of the Teenage Wasteland
Tribeca Film Festival Hey, guess what? High school sucked. And even if your high school experience wasn’t as rotten and wicked as the ones experienced by…
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Truly Outrageous? ‘Jem and the Holograms’ Film Casts Band of Unknowns
Hasbro First off, it seems important that we all take a moment to remember and acknowledge that we’re currently living in a world where a…
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Paul Schneider “Still Believes in Selling Out,” Which Might Be Why He Doesn’t Do It
Tribeca Film Festival You enter with a compliment. This is how professional courtesy works ‐ when you’re entering a room (typically a hotel room, often a…
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‘The Quiet Ones’ Review: Even Seventies Stylings Can’t Save This Standard Issue Haunter
Lionsgate Perhaps the most terrifying thing about The Quiet Ones is how blatantly the Hammer horror film rips off other, better features – in fact,…
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Is Andrew Dominik’s ‘Blonde’ Ever Going to Happen?
Fox Searchlight Pictures Filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s long-in-the-making attempt to turn Joyce Carol Oates’ Pulitzer Prize finalist “Blonde,” a loose (and beloved) 700-page take on the…
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Spoilers I Have Known (And Mostly Loved)
Warner Bros. Just when it seems to have died down, the debate over spoilers flairs right back up again, like a pesky form of a…
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‘Life Partners’ Review: Charming Friendship Comedy Is Perfect For You and Your BFF
Tribeca Film Festival Indie features about the growing pains and pangs of twentysomethings are a dime a dozen in the film world – good luck hitting…
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Here Come the Teen Boy-Centric Gritty YA Adaptations
Fox There’s little question that Hollywood’s “adapt anything YA!” attitude has helped shepherd a new line of strong (or, at least, pretend strong, as is…
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‘In Your Eyes’ Review: Joss Whedon-Penned Supernatural Romance Wastes Its One Good Idea
Tribeca Film Festival Let In Your Eyes be a lesson that not absolutely everything that Joss Whedon touches turns to gold, even the things the beloved…