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Beatriz at Dinner

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Brett Alan Dewing
Sep 23, 2017
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I've never given Salma Hayek much credit as an actress.  Like many other actors, I figured she was on the screen for her beauty, not her talent.  Well, call me shallow, because I have just been proven wrong.

In Beatriz at Dinner, now on DVD, Hayek cuts a striking figure – not as the Hollywood bombshell, but as Beatriz, a working class holistic healer who…

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