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Barbie review – a gorgeously weird blockbuster event

by Hannah Strong

Gre­ta Ger­wig’s behe­moth block­buster is a stranger, more fas­ci­nat­ing film than its hyper-cor­po­rate mar­ket­ing would suggest.

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Review

White Noise

by Hannah Strong

Adam Dri­ver and Gre­ta Ger­wig reunite as a cou­ple grap­pling with their fear of death in Noah Baumbach’s adap­ta­tion of Don DeLillo’s novel.

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Review

Little Women

by David Jenkins

Gre­ta Ger­wig deliv­ers one of the great mod­ern lit­er­ary adap­ta­tions with her sec­ond fea­ture as writer/​director.

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Review

Isle of Dogs

by Hannah Strong

A humon­gous cre­ative under­tak­ing and a sim­ple love of dogs com­bine for the most stag­ger­ing achieve­ment of Wes Anderson’s career.

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Review

Lady Bird

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Saoirse Ronan expe­ri­ences grow­ing pains in Sacra­men­to in Gre­ta Gerwig’s delight­ful indie comedy.

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20th Century Women

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Annette Ben­ing anchors this delight­ful, deeply per­son­al com­e­dy-dra­ma from writer/​director Mike Mills

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Review

Wiener-Dog

by Elena Lazic

Gre­ta Ger­wig pro­vides the spark in Amer­i­can nihilist Todd Solondz’s unof­fi­cial sequel to Wel­come to the Dollhouse.

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Maggie’s Plan

by Katherine McLaughlin

Gre­ta Ger­wig has the time of her life in Rebec­ca Miller’s shal­low por­trait of mid­dle-class ennui.

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Review

Mistress America

by David Jenkins

Hold on to your hats… Noah Baum­bach and Gre­ta Ger­wig return with a brisk Brook­lyn neo-screwball.

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Review

Frances Ha

by Anton Bitel

Ahoy sexy! In which the great Gre­ta Grewig stakes a con­vinc­ing claim to the thrown of most love­able liv­ing screen actress.

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Review

Damsels in Distress

by David Jenkins

Mum­blecore empress Gre­ta Ger­wig daz­zles in Whit Stillman’s first film in 13 years.

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Review

Greenberg

by Adam Woodward

With its wispy idio­syn­crasy and sharp, bit­ing humour, Green­berg may well win over the Baum­bach cynics.

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