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Serena Donadoni

Serena Donadoni is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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Melissa McCarthy’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? Lets Fascinating Forger Off the Hook

By Serena Donadoni
Oct 29, 2018

The more prickly and belligerent Israel becomes — and McCarthy never burdens her with likability — the more Holofcener and Whitty soften her choices with extenuating circumstances, imbuing their subject with a zeal for artistic purity at odds with her actions
By This Point, Johnny English Movies Pretty Much Are Bond Films

By Serena Donadoni
Oct 24, 2018

Called back into active duty after a cyberattack reveals the identities of all current MI7 agents, the decidedly out-of-date English uses his old-school knowledge to track down Volta and unplug him from the world’s power grid
With the Bracing Tully, Charlize Theron and Co. Face Life After Young Adulthood

By Serena Donadoni
May 3, 2018

... Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have completed their trilogy of self-delusion with Tully, a gently sardonic look at a 40-year-old woman who finds herself in a cluttered house, with a clueless spouse, preparing to have a third child
Thirteen Dissident Cate Blanchetts Rabble-Rouse Through Manifesto

By Serena Donadoni
Jun 26, 2017

Who knew Cate Blanchett wanted to be Tracey Ullman? That's probably not the reaction director Julian Rosefeldt hopes will be stirred by this rigorous series of monologues, stitched together from more than 50 artistic and political manifestos and performed by Blanchett as 13 characters. But, like Ullman, Blanchett takes the...
Melissa Leo Rages Beautifully Through Netflix’s The Most Hated Woman in America

By Serena Donadoni
Mar 17, 2017

The antagonistic atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair relished it when Life magazine called her “The Most Hated Woman in America” in the 1964 profile that only heightened her notoriety. That designation followed the 1963 Supreme Court ruling on Murray v. Curlett (and another lawsuit) that ended Bible-reading in public schools. Director...