“Tea With the Dames” — The Funniest Film So Far This Year Is…A Documentary?
OCTOBER 29, 2018 The idea couldn’t be simpler. Seat four women of a certain age at a table, and pour the tea, then listen to them spill it. These…
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Dame Maggie Smith Channels Her Inner Bag Lady in Alan Bennett’s “The Lady in the Van”
DECEMBER 8, 2015 It’s heresy, I know. But I didn’t like Maggie Smith in “The Lady in the Van.” To be clearer, I didn’t like how her character, a…
Best Actress — Ten Performances To Put On Your Oscar Radar
NOVEMBER 2, 2015 Every year we get the same Oscar party line about the Best Actress race — if only there were more leading women who could turn in Oscar-worthy…
