Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023

Carey Mulligan recently realized that she's spent much of her professional career holding back.

That might be surprising to hear for an actor with two Oscar nominations, a Tony nod and a laundry list of extraordinary films and enviable roles. She just didn't get precious about it and...

Friday, Dec. 8, 2023

Michelle Tesoro, ACE had just finished recutting the independent film Flag Day with director-actor Sean Penn. Bradley Cooper saw the movie and asked Penn about Tesoro, which led to her eventually being handed the figurative editor’s baton to take on Maestro (Netflix).

As...

Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023

Bradley Cooper's "Maestro," a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein's very public life as a conductor while diving into his more private marriage to Felicia Montealegre. How each side of Bernstein's existence interacts with the...

Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022

Those old Hollywood newspaper flicks are great, but today's journalists don't run around newsrooms yelling "Get me rewrite!" Nor do they sprint across the room shouting "Stop the presses!" over the click-clack of teletype machines and manual typewriters.

But that doesn't mean you can't...

Friday, Oct. 14, 2022

Five years after a pair of exposés revealed Harvey Weinstein's long trail of sexual abuse of women, "She Said," a film that dramatizes the dogged fight to uncover years of allegations against the movie mogul, premiered Thursday at the New York Film Festival.

The film stars Carey Mulligan...

Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2021

"Man. That ending!"

That's likely what you'd hear everyone saying on the way out of the multiplex — if we were all still going to the multiplex — after "Promising Young Woman." In an audacious and provocative film (nominated for five Oscars), there's no part more audacious and provocative...

Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020

Emerald Fennell wanted to write about female rage. Before #MeToo became ubiquitous, she had been thinking about complacency and the teen movies of her youth where consent was often little more than a throwaway joke. That's when the idea for her audacious debut "Promising Young Woman," out Friday...

Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020

Is it a #MeToo-era revenge thriller? A 21st-century "Fatal Attraction"? A candy-colored feminist polemic, to strains of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? A black comedy? A comic tragedy?

None of the above — and all of the above. Which is to say: a film as bracingly original as Emerald...

Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018

It's fall of 1960 in Montana when we meet the Brinson family in "Wildlife ," a carefully considered and deeply moving adaptation of a Richard Ford novel about a fracturing marriage and the teenage son witnessing it all.

Things don't start out bad, or don't seem to be. Jerry Brinson (Jake...

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015

First the bad news: "Suffragette" isn't a Meryl Streep movie, despite what you may have seen in the trailer. She has but a few moments of screen time.

And now the good news: It's a Carey Mulligan movie.

Mulligan, like Streep, is simply a...

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