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‘May December’ a sharp study of the deception beneath two women’s intelligent facades

Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore memorably play the two schemers whose brief alliance is rooted in a long-ago tabloid sensation.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 16, 2023

May December review: Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman are tremendous in this daring black comedy

Todd Haynes has directed a film with so many deliciously clashing styles that it’s as much a trashy soap as it is a torrid, probing melodrama

The Independent UK · Nov 16, 2023

Movie Review: Emotional complexity, melodramatic wit and masterful acting in ‘May December’

Natalie Portman plays an actress researching a real-life subject for a role in Todd Haynes' “May December.”

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2023

Barbie review – a riotous, candy-coloured feminist fable

Barbie takes a ride from her dream house to reality as Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig takes another cultural icon and lovingly subverts it

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023

The banned Barbie film: her anguished first role as Karen Carpenter

Todd Haynes animated the impossibly slender doll to show what drove the singer to her early death. The film has more in common than you might expect with Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2023

Todd Haynes' 'May December' to open 61st New York Film Festival

The 61st New York Film Festival will kick off with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” a juicy drama starring Natalie Portman as an actor preparing for a film about a years-ago tabloid scandal

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2023

Finland in 1944, Kurdish ghettos of Bonn, and January 6: the top 5 films at the Sydney Film Festival in 2023

Winter on Market Street, and it’s time to switch off one’s phone and retreat to the cinema cave for the 12 days of hibernation known as the Sydney Film Festival.

The Conversation · Jun 20, 2023

5 filmmakers whose work you need to catch up on this summer

I often tell my film criticism students, as they prepare to review a new movie, that it's always helpful to familiarize yourself with a director's past work. That might sound like fairly obvious advice, but it's worth reinforcing for someone not accustomed to watching movies through the lens of auteurism,…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 19, 2023

Natalie Portman's husband 'doing all he can' to save his marriage after 'affair'

Natalie Portman and her husband Benjamin Millepied are reportedly still together and working through their marital issues amid reports he cheated with a younger woman

Daily Mirror · Jun 4, 2023

Natalie Portman seen kissing husband days before reports he 'cheated with 25-year-old'

Natalie Portman was seen packing on the PDA with her husband Benjamin Millepied just days before it was reported that he cheated on her with a younger woman

Daily Mirror · Jun 3, 2023