Little Women: See it again for the first time

The March sisters: Emma Watson (Meg), Florence Pugh (Amy), Saoirse Ronan (Jo), Eliza Scalen (Beth).

It may be difficult to believe that the seventh (count them, 1917, 1918, 1933, 1949, 1994, 2018, 2019) film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's glorious 1868 novel comes to the big screen with all the amazing, heart-grabbing beauty of a brand new story.

Believe the Movie Slut when she says it does.

The story is as fresh, the characters as engaging, the plots as captivating, the emotion as intense as if the book they're based on is hot off the press. If anything, the plight of women for whom marriage is the only option and often an economic decision is more resonant today when women's inequality is a hot  topic.

Director/screenwriter Greta Gerwig deserves much of the credit for this marvel of a movie that will sweep you into the home and hearts of the little March women. If she doesn't win an Oscar, the Movie Slut will be apoplectic.

Bombshell: Incendiary

It's the summer of 2016. The MeToo movement is a cause of the future. But at FOX news, the veil is being lifted on sexual abuse and harassment. Gretchen Carlson, an on-air star, is charging Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of news, with these crimes. Will other women come forward?, her lawyers ask. Oh, yes, she says. But it's soon apparent that lifting the floodgate doesn't immediately release a torrent of accusers.

Much of the movie focuses on Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) FOX's sexy blonde superstar. It's obvious she has a story to tell. But will she risk toppling from her high perch to expose Ailes when, as Gretchen (Nicole Kidman) says, You don't sue your boss. Everyone knows that.

The movie also focuses on a third woman, Kayla (Margot Robbie), who's young, naive, and also an Ailes victim. She's a composite of some of the 23 women who eventually stepped up to bring Ailes (John Lithgow) down.

The Movie Slut saw Bombshell twice. Liked it the first time. Loved it the second.

Atlantics: A love story

Set in Senegal's coastal capital Dakar, the North Atlantic Ocean could be the protagonist of this Romeo-and-Juliet-style love story. The only reason it isn't is because the actors are so deeply compelling. In fact, so engaging, that this Netflix film stands up to any movie released this year.

Ada, the exquisite Mame Sane, and Souleiman (Ibrahima Traore) are young and in love, but their poverty and lack of opportunity make it impossible to sustain a relationship. He sets out by boat for Spain never to return...unless you happen to believe in the supernatural.

Think of "Ghost," the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore tearjerker without the cheesy scenes.

Some will say this is a movie about economic disparity or immigration by necessity.

Not the Movie Slut. She sees this as a story about love so deep it transcends reality and  defies death.

Frankie: So bad it's good

The first time Marisa Tomei appears on screen in this chilly excuse for a movie, we see only the back of her head. She's talking, but we don't see her facial expressions. That caught the Movie Slut's attention. What was the director thinking?

We don't know, of course, but we do know that this devise was used throughout the film, making it his go-to shot.

We can only think that he thought the scenery, which was lovely (Portugal countryside), was the flick's strongest suit.

What was wrong with this movie? The Movie Slut had a good time counting the ways. Even the usually dazzling Isabelle Huppert couldn't lift it from its misery.

Riichard Jewell: A tarnished gem

Can one blemish mar an otherwise perfect jewel?

That's the question movie-goers have to decide regarding Clint Eastwood's new movie about the man suspected in the bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Olympics.

Sadly, for the Movie Slut this flaw is too great to give the film a rave, and sadly, it's a totally unnecessary misstep. In his zeal to pinpoint a villain, Eastwood shows—and names—a real reporter trading sex for an FBI tip. No matter, that this is a fictitious plot point. And exacerbating this outrage, the named reporter died and is therefore unable to defend herself.

The Movie Slut is outraged!!!!! Especially since the heart of this movie is about the ruination of a  man who was wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit. Irony alert!

Eastwood should be ashamed of himself and sued into smithereens. He not only besmirched the memory of this reporter, but belittled his film and the sensational acting by Paul Walter Hauser (Jewell), Kathy Bates (his mother), Sam Rockwell, (his lawyer), Jon Hamm (the FBI agent), and Olivia Wilde (the maligned journalist Kathy Scruggs).

Honey Boy: No artificial sweetner here

The Movie Slut almost skipped this flick. Who wants to watch an abusive, alcoholic father inflicting damage to his son? But, well, the Movie Slut is the Movie Slut and it was $5.50 Tuesday. Now she's sure glad she went.

Honey Boy is the story of actor Shia LaBoeuf, who lived with his father in a fleabag hotel as his career as a child actor took off. LaBoeuf plays his father and wrote the screenplay, a beautifully restrained and poignant account of his struggles, as well as those of his father.

The movie spans about six year, with Noah Jupe as 12-year-old Shia, and Lucas Hedges as the 18-year-old, who winds up in rehab after one too many DUIs.

Honey Boy just might be the best movie you didn't want to see.

Marriage Story: Sad & True

Stay tuned for review

Queen and Slim: Thelma and Louise in color

If you still wonder why the black community cheered when OJ Simpson was acquitted, then you have to see this thoughtful and entertaining movie. It puts you in the shoes of two people of color who don't trust law enforcement (for good reason) or the justice system (for good reason, too).

They were on a first date that went terribly bad, and although she admits a second date was not in their future, well, let's just say they wind up spending the rest of their lives together.

The Movie Slut was wowed by this flick. See if you are, too.