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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 10

  the milk of human kindness has most definitely gone sour.

  can't remember the last time i saw anything that offered such a nuanced, slippery portrait of moral decline [insert joke about the GOP here].

  highly recommended for fans of ladies, macbeth, the handmaiden, and / or murder on the moors.

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  Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★½ 8

  My mom: I wonder why they don't want her going outside at all?
  *cuts to the 4th sex scene in ten minutes*
  Mom: Maybe that's why.

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  Review by kevinyang ★★★½ 2

  I'm making a list called "performances that are better than most of the 2018 Oscar nominations" and Florence Pugh is already on it.

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  Review by BRAT ★★★ 12

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  normally i live for films about complex women who kill BUT ... it’s impossible to root for a white woman killing a little black boy. it’s totally conceivable that this act was intended to encourage us to not root for her & to demonstrate how evil this woman is. okay. that makes sense. but perhaps choose a different, not overtly racist act so that all of the film’s potential feminist politics don’t fly out the window??

   sofia coppola stayed in her lane while making the beguiled & maybe this (white) director should have as well.

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  Review by josh rosenthal ★★★★ 2

  hell hath no fury like a woman bored.

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  Review by Caitlin ★★★★½

  Shakespeare, can you pick me up? I'm scared...

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  Review by lily? ★★★

  the lengths that white women will go to just so they can fuck a 19th century version of seth rogen

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  Review by lauren ★★★½

  2017 really was a big year for mushrooms

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★½ 3

  42/100

  Even skeptics tend to praise Florence Pugh's performance in the title role, but I submit that her talent obscures some fundamentally poor choices (for which director William Oldroyd shares the blame, of course). An appalling metamorphosis is what's called for, but Pugh works overtime to signal what's coming, right from the outset; she seems disturbed even before the patriarchal nightmare has a chance to warp her. (I suppose one could argue that significant warping occurred throughout the character's childhood, but that's not exactly dramatically satisfying.) Consequently, there's no sense of tragedy or loss here—just a monster whose increasingly horrific crimes are shallowly contextualized by her own mistreatment. Doesn't help that the grand passion that ostensibly motivates Katherine plays like…

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  Review by ♦️•Lily•💋 ★½ 1

  Florence pugh in this be like: [to the tune of nobody by mitski] my god i’m so horny

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  Review by siobhan ★★★½ 3

  florence pugh: what the fuck is fidelity bitch i will kill you

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 3

  There aren’t very many words spoken in William Oldroyd’s “Lady Macbeth” — most of the communication is done through sex, abuse, and murder — but not a one of them is wasted or forgotten. Indeed, the film’s emblematically terse first exchange looms over the 85 minutes that follow like a dark shadow on a bitter day, and it’s proof that Florence Pugh deserves more attention in this year’s competitive awards season.

  It’s Katherine’s (Pugh) wedding night, and the 17-year-old bride is being dressed for her deflowering. Her new husband’s chambermaid does the honors, Anna (Naomi Ackie), slipping the girl into her nightgown. “Are you cold?” Anna asks, a valid question on a brutal winter night in the North of England…