Husbands and Wives

"...Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack, Juliette Lewis and Liam Neeson. Husbands and Wives deromanticizes modern love, revealing it as a..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ex-Husbands

A divorcee crashes his son’s bachelor party in Mexico

Feb. 28, 2025 Movie Review

Man-Babies, Cat-Ladies, and Cuckolded Husbands

June 17, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Duty

Untangling the Web

Jane Espenson on the path to online comedy success with 'Husbands'

"...taking a risk on a Web comedy show like Husbands? She credits co-creator Brad Bell for helping her make..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Friends With Money

Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, kids, mortgages, and so-called life plans? That’s the short list of differences between the depressed, single stoner, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her circle of female friends.

"...Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, with kids, with mortgages and so-called life plans? That’s..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Junebug

With this film built on a host of remarkably nuanced Southern characters, first-time filmmaker Phil Morrison announces himself with assurance and uniqueness of vision.

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Moscow, Belgium

Barbara Sarafian’s jaundiced but stoic portrait of exasperated middled-age womanhood is the big revelation of this Belgian import.

April 10, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Water

This film which examines the second-class status of women in traditional Hindu society is beautiful yet sad, a tale drenched in centuries of stagnant, holy water.

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Kitchen

1970s mob drama gets a #MeToo overhaul

"...who scheme to rule Midtown Manhattan after their low-rent husbands get taken down by the FBI midheist. Kathy Brennan..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Widows

Viola Davis leads an efficient heist that rarely blows the doors off

"...to pay back the angry men from whom their husbands stole – pulls the trigger on this dynamo. The..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Women’s Balcony

An Orthodox community gets embroiled in gender politics

"...protests outside his yeshiva and putting pressure on their husbands at home. Ultimately, this movie that began with a..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Salesman

Gripping drama from the director of A Separation

"...familiar than they are foreign. Aging parents, blended families, husbands and wives struggling to communicate and find affordable housing..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Wailing

South Korean movie adeptly blends a variety of genre tropes

"...an outbreak of murders begins to plague his town. Husbands killing wives, family members slaughtering their kin and burning..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Courageous

In this faith-based drama from the makers of Fireproof, four policemen struggle with their roles as husbands and fathers.

"...of 2008), four policemen struggle with their roles as husbands and fathers...."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Thank You

In this Bollywood romantic comedy, cheating husbands try to keep their secrets from a private detective and their wives.

"...at press time. In this Bollywood romantic comedy, cheating husbands try to keep their secrets from the private detective..."

April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

7 Khoon Maaf

In this Hindi mystery, a seven-times married woman leaves behind six deceased husbands.

"...mystery, a seven-times married woman leaves behind six deceased husbands...."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Vera Farmiga is a knockout in this otherwise predictable and emotionally manipulative story about the horror of the German concentration camps.

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Jindabyne

The Australian director of Lantana returns to similar psychological terrain with this drama based on a Raymond Carver short story and starring the fantastic Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne.

"...Both films examine the often tenuous fabric that unites husbands and wives and how a small tear in that..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

From the director and writer of Secretary comes this odd fictional biopic about this photographer's impulses.

Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Flightplan

Aiming to be a Hitchcockian-type thriller set within the tight quarters of a jetliner, this Jodie Foster vehicle runs aground.

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Constant Gardener

City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.

"...is a movie about the separate worlds inhabited by husbands and wives, about the interior spaces of the heart..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Stepford Wives

Remake will quickly go from an idea that's misbegotten to a movie that's completely forgotten.

"...about the extreme reactions of a group of Connecticut husbands threatened by the surging women’s liberation movement was rife..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Runaway Jury

John Grisham courtroom thumper marches to a familiar tune.

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Secret Lives of Dentists

Alan Rudolph's new movie offers a well-performed portrait of decency that's much less sexy than its title.

"...ruminate, and speculate about the secret lives of dentists, husbands, and humans...."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Me You Them

"...Quixêlo who shared her modest adobe house with three husbands -- acquired in succession -- and various subsequent children...."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Four Days in September

"...their propagandistic feel. Barreto (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) nimbly avoids this classic pitfall with a gripping, intelligent..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Sense and Sensibility

The lively and funny screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen written by Emma Thompson, who also stars, was rewarded with an Oscar.

"...morals set within a narrative context of finding suitable husbands for eligible young women. (Such a passé story line..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Favor

"...this comedy come from its smaller aspects: conversations between husbands and wives, between friends, recognition of routines, of jobs,..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Oscar Shorts 1993

"...speaks with women incarcerated for fighting back against abusive husbands or boyfriends. It shares much in common with Suzanne..."

March 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Remember when Mike Myers was funny? This film features one of his best performances as a poet who reluctantly marries, then fears that his bride (a meat butcher) is a bluebeard.

"...World News story of a woman who murders her husbands and thinks Harriet might be that woman. You can..."

July 30, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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