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Directed by Josh Greenbaum  ★★★ FROM the writers of Bridesmaids comes a truly bizarre comedy which celebrates female friendship, middle age and culottes — the 1970s fashion trend we all pray never comes back. It is co-written and produced by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, who also play lifelong friends Barb and Star. After losing their jobs and being kicked out of Talking Club the pair decide to leave their hometown for the first time to holiday in Vista Del Mar, Florida, in search of sun, sea and “living la vida loca.” There they meet the dashing Edgar (an all-singing-all-dancin...

Photo: Mubi In the spring of 2013, more than 16,000 rotting pig corpses floated down the Huangpu River, the “Mother River” whose tributaries feed Shanghai’s water supply. Public outrage and an official investigation followed, eventually tracing the pigs to Zhejiang Province, about 60 miles outside the city. The animals had died of a disease called porcine circovirus that officials insisted was not contagious to humans, and a tangle of regulations amid a crackdown on black-market pork had led farmers to dump the remains rather than pay the government fees to dispose of them. The incident...

Laughs.) I do. Parasite is a revelation to me. I love the movie so much. I remember finishing it for the first time, and I was so emotional because it did feel like, to me, that people were talking about a movie that I could see in my mind’s eye. I’d been following Bong Joon-ho’s career for a long time, as well, and Parasite was suddenly talked about in the conversation in a way that even his previous films — and most foreign language films — had not been. When it actually went on to win best picture — and not best foreign language film, but

Cathy Yan’s film weaves together a colorful confection of stories set amid the corruption and class inequities of modern-day China.

Birds of Prey, many fans were quick to look up her feature film debut, Dead Pigs. The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, where it won a Special Award Prize for Ensemble Acting. Now, 3 years after its critically acclaimed debut, Dead Pigs is finally streaming for American audiences on MUBI starting on February 12. While many successful indie directors (Colin Trevorrow, Josh Trank) are given the reins to massive franchises ( Jurassic World, Fantastic Four, respectively), female directors are rarely rewarded with such a giant platform. Yan’s hiring made her the first As...