movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: This is the death of the comic-book movie. Or it should be. The savage, inhumane nihilism of Deadpool 2 says, Yup, comics haters are right: this is dangerous nonsense with no morality or redeeming qualities. Read the review…
latest reviews
- Show Dogs movie review: everything is awful
- Deadpool 2 movie review: kryptonite for superheroes
- Jeune Femme (aka Montparnasse Bienvenüe) movie review: the heroine of her own life
- Saving Brinton documentary review: the man with a mission to rescue a slice of cinema history
- Revenge movie review: better served unhot
- Anon movie review: brings a whole new meaning to ‘private eye’
- Breaking In movie review: setting her house in order
- Life of the Party movie review: cut this class
- Sherlock Gnomes movie review: oh gnome they didn’t… (they did)
- They movie review: the most important decision of their young life
- New Town Utopia documentary review: the future that never was
- The Judge documentary review: social (and legal) justice warrior
2017’s films, ranked by maryann (now final)
2018’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri May 18
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri May 18
- is it wrong to see a ‘Quiet Place’ soundtrack album as wrong?
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri May 11
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu May 10
- 2018 Webby Award winners (which I help pick)
- gendered abuse I have received
- ‘Ready Player One’ reread, Part 2
- ‘Ready Player One’ reread, Part 1
- Stephen Hawking isn’t gone forever…
- Flick Filosopher now on Apple News
- my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)
- should I live-tweet a reread of ‘Ready Player One’… (update: results in)
- PBS ‘Frontline’ and BBC ‘Panorama’ take on Harvey Weinstein
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again this Sunday, March 4th
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finest internets
- curated: has the Internet killed cultural criticism?
- curated: how the Hollywood old boys’ club gets perpetuated
- curated: the propaganda films that served Britain well in WWII are hurting in the Brexit era
- curated: the best should-be meme you’ll see today starring Tilda Swinton and Mads Mikkelsen
- curated: on the diversity of fans, Part 7,862,971, Marvel Edition
- curated: the proposed TV interview show for men taken down by #MeToo
- curated: based-on-fact movie replaces real-life woman hero with invented idiot man protagonist
- curated: the implosion of Channel Awesome
- curated: why we need more female film critics, part 54,335
- curated: Claire Foy paid less than her male costar on ‘The Crown’
- curated: a group of women buy The Weinstein Company (updated)
- curated: time to sweep the bad movies out of Hollywood, along with the bad men
- curated: how the new members of the Academy are changing the Oscars
- curated: what it took to get the ballet stuff right in ‘Red Sparrow’
- curated: can Paramount be trusted to find its own ass? (a contemplation on the strange release of ‘Annihilation’)
- curated: funny how people object to ‘Call Me by Your Name’s age gap when they let these straight romances slide
