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5 Ways The To Do List Is a Radically Feminist Film

This article contains major spoilers. A white suburban teen, urged on by friends, makes the decision to finally get laid, maybe by the end of summer. That's the premise of Sixteen Candles, American Pie, Superbad and now The To Do List. Comedy pin-up Aubrey Plaza gives a characteristically low-wattage performance......

How Friends Illustrates the Depressing Insularity of Our Lives

Friends ended less than a decade ago, but it's already a relic of a bygone era--a critically respected network sitcom that enjoyed massive ratings. That's the central irony of the Must-See TV show's legacy: It was one of the last programs to enjoy a national audience before cable and the......

Rex Reed Still Not the World's Worst Film Critic by Any Measure

V/H/S/2, the film in question.New York Observer film critic Rex Reed is such a reliable source of outraged blog posts he's probably just a neck lipo away from getting his own E! reality show. His review of V/H/S/2, written after he skipped out on the latter three-quarters of the film,......
Nat Faxon

The Way, Way Back Directors on Thinking You're a 6 but Hearing You're a 3

Nat Faxon and Jim Rash didn't set out to make a comedy about divorce. Eight years ago, when the improv comedians–turned-actors-turned–Oscar-winning screenwriters started writing a coming-of-age script based on a particularly upsetting moment from Rash's childhood, they just wanted a happy ending. Yet almost all of the characters in The......

The Way, Way Back Review: It's Like Watching Pinocchio in Reverse

The Way, Way Back is a crowd-pleasing summer treat, predictable in its sweetness but satisfying all the same. It's like the multinationally branded ice cream sandwich you get on any pier in the western hemisphere — market-tested to appeal to as many people as possible (but you don't mind gobbling......
Charlize Theron in Young Adult.

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic disturbing to anyone who cares about gender equality on the big screen: "It's now been 61 days since the last wide release of a major studio movie starring a woman." Unfortunately, that number will only increase—to 84 days—until Sandra Bullock and......