Tag: Joe Swanberg
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The 5 Hallmarks of a Greta Gerwig Movie
We’re all just Greta Gerwig girls, living in Greta Gerwig’s world. The filmmaker has officially ascended to the A-list of directors with “Barbie,” her third directorial effort. The existential comedy adapted from the Mattel doll line is one of the biggest movies of 2023, and is set to cross the line to $1 billion at…
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‘Lady Bird’ Isn’t Greta Gerwig’s Directorial Debut — This Awkward Movie Is
Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg’s Nights and Weekends opens with a clumsy sex scene that sheds the clichés of the many that have come before it in favor of capturing every last detail of the process. The camera seems at first uncomfortably voyeuristic before you realize, how many scenes of this kind are this compromising?…