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Flare 2017

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Barbarella

Review preview for Barbarella

Fonda's resolutely straight-faced performance makes Barbarella a character who can charm you with more than just her physical assets.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
Cult sci-fi sees a sexy space agent hunt down an evil scientitst.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1968; Director: Roger Vadim; Writer: Jean-Claude Forest, Claude Brulé, Terry Southern, Roger Vadim, Vittorio Bonicelli, Clement Biddle Wood, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates; Stars: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, Claude Dauphin, Véronique Vendell, Giancarlo Cobelli, Serge Marquand, Nino Musco, Franco Gulà, Catherine Chevallier, Marie Therese Chevallier, Umberto Di Grazia, David Hemmings)

Full review See: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Paolo Sorrentino, Harvey Keitel, Paul Dano and Rachel Weisz talk Youth

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe star in the big screen spectacular about Two Little Girls from Little Rock.

(Country: US; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow)

Mommie Dearest

Review preview for Mommie Dearest

Regardless of your tolerance for high camp and massive hair, you've got to admit it's memorable.

James Benefield · 3 out of 5
Controversial story of Joan Crawford, based on the memoirs of her adopted daughter.

(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Frank Perry; Writer: Christina Crawford, Robert Getchell, Tracy Hotchner, Frank Perry, Frank Yablans; Stars: Faye Dunaway, Mara Hobel, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard da Silva)

Full review See: Faye Dunaway in Locarno on ageist attitudes, inequality and stage roots