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Weekend Film Reviews

Florence Foster Jenkins

It's not exactly breaking news, but Meryl Streep is remarkable, and her latest showcase is Florence Foster Jenkins.

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By Joe Morgenstern • Aug 13, 2016 • 3m Listen

Florence Foster Jenkins, a biopic set in New York in the 1940's, is about the self-invented opera diva whose hideous voice own her a place on the honor roll of American eccentrics.

By coincidence, another film on the same subject played here earlier this year -- Xavier Giannoli's French-language Marguerite, which was set in 1920's Paris.

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