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Welcome Critic Alison Willmore to the Movieline Fold!

Dear Reader: Please take a moment and issue a hearty welcome to the esteemed Alison Willmore, a fine critic and film journalist who this week joins the Movieline family. You can find Alison’s first ML review, for The Debt , here , with more to follow in the weeks and months ahead. She is a longtime contributor to IFC, the AV Club, and numerous other publications, and she will be helping out as Stephanie Zacharek reports from the Venice and Toronto film festivals and Michelle Orange takes short leave for a book project. We are thrilled to have Alison aboard; please say hello!

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REVIEW: Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier Play Workplace Power Games in Love Crime

An executive and an underling are working late in a plushly appointed living room at the start of Love Crime , a twisty French drama about office competition and revenge that’s the final film from director Alain Corneau, who passed away last year. The exec treats the other employee in a way that would send any real-world worker running off to gather evidence for a sexual harassment lawsuit — invading the young woman’s personal space, telling her how pretty she looks when she smiles, leaning into her throat to smell traces of her perfume.

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