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Judith Ivey and Sheila McCarthy live the fury, grief and resolve of ‘Women Talking’

As “Women Talking” begins, it is discovered that a group of men in an isolated religious colony have drugged and raped the women and girls in the community. “I feel like I’m 8 years old and my underwear is showing, still,” she jokes, her pixie haircut reminiscent of her breakout role in the 1987 indie film “I’ve Heard the Mermaids …

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Review: Ensemble acting doesn’t get much better than in Sarah Polley’s brilliant ‘Women Talking’

For much of “Women Talking,” Sarah Polley’s suspenseful and galvanizing fourth feature, we are in the hayloft of a barn overlooking a remote stretch of farmland, with a lonely dirt road winding toward the horizon. Ben Whishaw, from left, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy in the movie “Women Talking.” “Women Talking,” though seemingly more straightforward, abounds in its own furiously …

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