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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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By This Point, Johnny English Movies Pretty Much Are Bond Films

By Serena Donadoni
Oct 30, 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Called back into active duty after a cyberattack reveals the identities of all current MI7 agents, the decidedly out-of-date English uses his old-school knowledge to track down Volta and unplug him from the world’s power grid
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
Thirteen Dissident Cate Blanchetts Rabble-Rouse through Manifesto

By Serena Donadoni
May 18, 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 21, 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...
The Daughter Brings an Ibsen Play to Australia, but His Spirit's Still in Norway

By Serena Donadoni
Jan 30, 2017

In his atmospheric debut film, Australian theater director Simon Stone whittles down The Wild Duck into a cautionary tale about welcoming home an emotional exile. While stage adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s tragicomedy often emphasize its farcical elements, Stone sticks to tragedy in his naturalistic version, set in densely planted logging...