When Sylvia Plath put her head in the oven in 1963, envious fellow suicidal poet Anne Sexton called it “a…
Kurt Cobain’s wild widow comes from a long line of misbehaving mamas.
Opens at Uptown, Fri., April 7. Not rated. 91 minutes.
Opens at Metro and others, Fri., March 17. Rated R. 124 minutes.
Showing at Varsity, Fri., March 31–Thurs., April 6. Not rated. 103 minutes.
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Charlize Theron’s deglamorized star turn will earn her an Oscar nom, but the film wins no awards for fidelity to its nutcase subject.
Why wait for midlife to buy a midlife-crisis car?
Three years after the tech crash, Seattle authors are starting to mine their memories of the dot-com era.
Edna Everage promises to fix your marriage, read your aura, and make you laugh— or your money back.
Determined not to cause any historical offense, Ridley Scott creates bland bloodshed in the Holy Land—and a hero to suit.
On Cobain and Last Days.
But something more important is missing.
Sundance is still a great destination for indie cinema, beneath the avalanche of bling.
Runs Fri., Oct. 21–Thurs., Oct. 27, at Varsity.
The flaws are drawn more boldly than the virtues in this scathing family fictionalization.
