Tag: joan micklin silver
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‘Chilly Scenes of Winter’’s Post-Breakup Blues
Writer-director Joan Micklin Silver potently examines how lost love can push a once-stable person off their rocker.
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More Movies to Fall in Love with This February
Last February, I recommended some underappreciated movies worth checking out to ring in the year’s most romantic month for 425. Here are a few more.
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‘Big Girls Don’t Cry … They Get Even’ Reminds You How Much More Joan Micklin Silver Was Capable Of
This is a pleasant, diverting movie, though it’s distractingly a bit at war with itself.
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‘Crossing Delancey’ is Like if a Rom-Com Plot Played Out in Real Life
‘Crossing Delancey’ suggests what might happen if the narrative of a romantic-comedy movie were grafted onto life — a place where the genre’s big emotions, plot contrivances, and sudden appearances of soulmates would naturally be a little overwhelming.
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‘Between the Lines’: For the Love of the Game
In Joan Micklin Silver’s equal parts bighearted and devastating ‘Between the Lines,’ journalists are put on a pedestal — elevated like characters in a soap opera.
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