Moira Macdonald

Seattle

Writer and Books and Film Critic at Seattle Times

Shoe enthusiast, Seattle Times arts critic, upcoming novelist ("Storybook Ending" in 2025), cat person, ballet nerd, Bookstore Champion, Nora Charles wannabe

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Articles

'The Wedding Banquet' worthy successor to Ang Lee’s classic

6 days ago | bostonherald.com | Moira Macdonald

Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet” isn’t really a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 arthouse hit of the same title; rather, it’s a reimagining, for a world that’s changed a lot in three-plus decades. In present-day Seattle (though filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia), two gay couples live in friendly proximity: Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and Lee (Lily Gladstone) in the house Lee inherited from her family; Min (Han Gi-Chan) and his boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang) in the backyard guesthouse.
‘The Wedding Banquet’ review: A worthy successor to Ang Lee’s classic

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Moira Macdonald

Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet” isn’t really a remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 arthouse hit of the same title; rather, it’s a reimagining, for a world that’s changed a lot in three-plus decades.
‘The Wedding Banquet’ review: A worthy successor to Ang Lee’s classic

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Moira Macdonald

Andrew Ahn's "The Wedding Banquet" isn't really a remake of Ang Lee's 1993 arthouse hit of the same title; rather, it's a reimagining, for a world that's changed a lot in three-plus decades.
'The Wedding Banquet' gives Lily Gladstone a reason to make people laugh

1 week ago | azdailysun.com | Moira Macdonald

SEATTLE — For Lily Gladstone, known around these parts as both an Oscar nominee (best actress for "Killers of the Flower Moon") and a 2004 graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School, the past year has brought a definite shift in the kind of roles being offered to her. "The characters I am seeing now are not explicitly Native characters," said Gladstone, who made Academy Awards history last year as the first Native American best actress nominee.
You’ll fall in love with PNB’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’ again and again

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Moira Macdonald

An uncanny thing can happen while you’re watching Pacific Northwest Ballet’s transcendent production of Jean-Christophe Maillot’s “Roméo et Juliette”: You feel like you’ve never seen it before, as if those beautiful movements onstage are simply unfolding for the first time, shiveringly fresh and new like first love.
'The Wedding Banquet' gives Lily Gladstone a reason to make people laugh

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Moira Macdonald

SEATTLE — For Lily Gladstone, known around these parts as both an Oscar nominee (best actress for "Killers of the Flower Moon") and a 2004 graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School, the past year has brought a definite shift in the kind of roles being offered to her. "The characters I am seeing now are not explicitly Native characters," said Gladstone, who made Academy Awards history last year as the first Native American best actress nominee.
'The Wedding Banquet' gives Lily Gladstone a reason to make people laugh

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Moira Macdonald

SEATTLE - For Lily Gladstone, known around these parts as both an Oscar nominee (best actress for "Killers of the Flower Moon") and a 2004 graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School, the past year has brought a definite shift in the kind of roles being offered to her. "The characters I am seeing now are not explicitly Native characters," said Gladstone, who made Academy Awards history last year as the first Native American best actress nominee.
‘The Wedding Banquet’ gives Lily Gladstone a reason to make people laugh

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Moira Macdonald

SEATTLE - For Lily Gladstone, known around these parts as both an Oscar nominee (best actress for "Killers of the Flower Moon") and a 2004 graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School, the past year has brought a definite shift in the kind of roles being offered to her. "The characters I am seeing now are not explicitly Native characters," said Gladstone, who made Academy Awards history last year as the first Native American best actress nominee.
Our critics find bad food - but good fun - on a day trip out of Seattle

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Moira Macdonald

Dinner at a Movie — an intrepid duo comprising Seattle Times food critic Bethany Jean Clement and film critic Moira Macdonald — is now in its eighth year of fearlessly critiquing movie theaters offering real food and drink.
Moira Macdonald: ‘The Wedding Banquet’ gives Lily Gladstone a reason to make people laugh

2 weeks ago | tri-cityherald.com | Moira Macdonald

For Lily Gladstone, known around these parts as both an Oscar nominee (best actress for "Killers of the Flower Moon") and a 2004 graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School, the past year has brought a definite shift in the kind of roles being offered to her. "The characters I am seeing now are not explicitly Native characters," said Gladstone, who made Academy Awards history last year as the first Native American best actress nominee.