The new Cate Blanchett/Richard Linklater film “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” launches Noah and Chance into a Be Reel category about mothers who reject motherhood. All in vastly different life situations, the protagonists of “Bernadette” (2019), “Ricki and the Flash” (2015) and “Second Act” (2018) find a common bond in pursuing much more than what society (real or imagined) tells them they deserve. If that sounds too serious, Meryl Streep growls Springsteen, Jennifer Lopez hurls a man into a Christmas tree, and Cate Blanchett rips Seattle a new one. Let’s go.

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