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REVIEW: I Don’t Know How She Does It Has Plenty of Fear and Loathing to Go Around

The title phrase of I Don’t Know How She Does It is lobbed repeatedly at intrepid working mom heroine Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, who also provides a Sex and the City -style pontifical voiceover) throughout this alleged comedy, sometimes in celebration, sometimes out of envy or condescension. Inherent in it is a swirl of self-doubt and competition. To be a mother, director Douglas McGrath’s film suggests, is to be in the constant grip of guilt and judgment, worried that you’re not giving enough, convinced that others are doing things better or more correctly than you, soothed when they appear to be doing worse.

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REVIEW: I Don’t Know How She Does It Has Plenty of Fear and Loathing to Go Around

Gus Van Sant on Restless, Test-Screening Nightmares and Why He Went Out For Breaking Dawn

After bookending the summer with prestigious appearances at festivals in Cannes and Toronto, acclaimed auteur Gus Van Sant brings his latest film, Restless , to theaters this weekend in limited release. The outcome of an unusual creative collaboration including co-producers Ron Howard and his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, her former New York University colleague and screenwriter Jason Lew, and the visionary for hire Van Sant, Restless stars Mia Wasikowska as a terminally ill teenager who sparks up a star-crossed love affair with a gloomy, funeral-crashing, imaginary friend-confiding orphan (played by Henry Hopper).

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Gus Van Sant on Restless, Test-Screening Nightmares and Why He Went Out For Breaking Dawn

REVIEW: Midlife Crisis Meets Ménage à Trois in 3

2011 is turning out to be a strong year for what can only be awkwardly summarized as films about aging hipster couples. That’s dire, dismissive-sounding shorthand for what are actually plangent, pensive works about people facing the realization that time is making their carefree choices to forgo a more mainstream path into hard facts.

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REVIEW: Midlife Crisis Meets Ménage à Trois in 3