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🍿 BOOK CLUB: THE NEXT CHAPTER is more of a mindless beach read than a Pulitzer Prize–winning page-turner, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. | ✍️ marahe

, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen are fresh out of COVID lockdown and bound for Italy, hell-bent on throwing a bachelorette party for the newly engaged Vivian , who’s finally decided to settle down with paramour Arthur . Italy, it seems, was always a dream of the longtime friends—at least until life, kids, and husbands with conveniently introduced heart conditions got in the way.

turns into a blitz of stunning scenery shots, “women trying on clothing” montages, and cucina- and meatball-related double entendres. Fonda and Keaton ably deliver, but it’s Bergen who shines brightest as confidently mature judge Sharon, equally comfortable having a one-night stand in a Venetian gondola as she is going toe-to-toe with a Tuscan sheriff.

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