ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET is a heartfelt adaptation of a timeless classic
by Audrey Callerstrom, Associate Editor
Are You There God?... reminded me of how there is a simple beauty in watching someone for whom the world feels new.
Disobedience
Directed by Sebastián Lelio (2017)
by Sandy DeVito
Disobedience concerns two Orthodox Jewish women coming from very different adult lives; having conducted an illicit affair with one another in their youth that was subsequently torn apart by Ronit's (Rachel Weisz) rabbi father, she and Esti (Rachel McAdams) are reunited when Ronit’s father dies unexpectedly and she returns for his funeral, having left and estranged herself from the Jewish church for years. Esti is now married to their childhood friend Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), causing a tumultuous jumble of unresolved emotions between the trio.
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Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
by Hunter Bush
Game Night has an absolutely amazing cast but the true star of the movie is the writing. The script, by Mark Perez, takes a pretty straightforward plot, a group of friends involved in a murder mystery party that may not be simulated after all, and continually takes it in unexpected directions. For instance, who'd have thought you could get heart and laughs (and some dry heaves) from a scene where a husband and wife clean up a bullet wound?
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