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The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

Be Your Own Frankenstein! A Cinephile's Guide to Film-Inspired Halloween Attire

Be Your Own Frankenstein! A Cinephile’s Guide to Film-Inspired Halloween Attire

Yahana Streeter | October 17, 2024

Are you having more trouble with the rapidly approaching Halloween costume idea deadline than with studying for your midterms? Did you and your friends have a spooky ensemble locked and loaded but heard...

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears in “Whiplash” (2014)

Sage Levy | October 3, 2024

  *Whiplash spoilers ahead*   On Tuesday, Sept. 24, I was lucky enough to catch a 10th anniversary reissue of Damien Chazelle’s 2014 film “Whiplash” at AMC Boston Common 19. The film...

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“Civil War” Seeks To Vindicate No One

Cheynie Singleton | April 24, 2024

Alex Garland’s “Civil War” has been one of the most anticipated movies of the year. A24’s biggest film yet follows a group of journalists documenting a nationwide civil war as they travel from...

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Our Choices for the Top Five Horror Movies of 2022

Brenda Perez Pelaez | October 23, 2022

Halloween is approaching as quickly as midterms are. Regardless of which of those is scarier, I must share the best horror movies that have come out this year in order to prepare everyone for Halloween....

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Michelle Yeoh in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

The Genre-Bending Family Drama of “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once”

Breanna White | April 20, 2022

Almost everyone has felt directionless at some point in their lives. Grappling to find life's purpose and how to reach your full potential is overwhelming, and “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once”...

Wild Strawberries (1957), Ingmar Bergman Review for Sculptures of Time

Alice Ascoli | April 20, 2022

As a young kid, where were you? What were you doing?  What were you hearing?  Do you remember?   In Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 “Wild Strawberries,” Isak Borg — the protagonist — remembers....

Are You Excited for the “Crying in H Mart” Feature Film?

Ria Goveas | February 9, 2022

“Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart.” The first sentence of the poignant New Yorker essay by Michelle Zauner led to the creation of the book “Crying in H Mart: A Memoir,” an emotional, moving,...

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