Anne Hathaway

Mother Mary — the Flop That Became an HBO Max Hit, and the Real Movie Under the Pretension

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  Mother Mary made about three million dollars in theaters on a twenty million dollar budget, which in studio math is a quiet disaster. Critics were not kind either. Variety called it the most pretentious pop star movie since Vox Lux, and it is not hard to see why. Lowery’s film wraps a small story … Read more

The Devil Wears Prada 2 — The Magazine Is Dying, and Miranda Doesn’t Know What She’s For

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  Somewhere in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Miranda Priestly picks up her own September issue, the object the entire fashion calendar once bent itself around, and remarks that it has gotten thin enough to floss with. The line is played for a laugh. It is the truest sentence in the film. Twenty years ago … Read more

The Odyssey — Christopher Nolan Shot Homer’s Epic Entirely on IMAX Film

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  Christopher Nolan has spent his career making movies about time, and about people straining to get back to where they started. His next one goes all the way back to the source. The Odyssey, in theaters July 17, is Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s three-thousand-year-old poem, the original story of a man taking the long … Read more