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Film review: The Hustle

F or a film like The Hustle, dropped in the wake of Avengers before the summer’s riptide comes roaring in, you’d be right to approach with tempered expectations. But the film—a grifters’ caper starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Hollywood, please stop it with this)—immediately subverts those with its […]

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One Day isn’t quite enough

What begins as an almost sexy encounter between Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) on grad night at Edinburgh University in 1988 turns into a saga of their friendship. We’re privy to the following 20 years of their respective lives, every July 15, as each finds or loses ambition—Sturgess, a coked-up TV host who […]

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