movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Kudos to J.J. Abrams for doing something extraordinary: he has made me not care about Star Wars for the first time ever with The Rise of Skywalker. I’m kind of relieved that it’s over, because it has stopped being fun. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- The Turning movie review: it’s screwed
- The Rescue movie review: China’s Coast Guard at action-thriller work
- Quezon’s Game movie review: earnest historical drama struggles to tell its important tale
- Color Out of Space movie review: pink elephant
- The Gentlemen movie review: sufficiently advanced crime
- Just Mercy movie review: fighting the never-ending good fight
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker movie review: the galaxy isn’t far far away, it’s just very small
- Uncut Gems movie review: diamond in the blech (#LFF2019)
- Little Women (2019) movie review: looking askance, with love, at a classic
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael documentary review: art and trash in measured quantities
- Richard Jewell movie review: innocent man, guilty movie
- Jumanji: The Next Level movie review: this game needs to be over
2020’s films, ranked by maryann
2019’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 24
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 24
- new fantasy flash fiction: “Impedimenta” (free for everyone!)
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 17
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 17
- my ranking of the films of 2020 has begun!
- what do women want? ‘Little Women’ and ‘Hustlers’ have some answers
- AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 10
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 10
- OFCS 2019 awards winners announced
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 03: NONE
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 03
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again, Saturday, January 4th
- UK online critics pick ‘The Irishman’ as best film of 2019 in HeyUGuys poll
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finest internets
- curated: why we don’t ‘see’ Star Wars anymore…
- curated: going to the theater sounds as bad as going to the movies these days…
- curated: we are the frogs slowly boiling in a soup of hatred and lack of compassion
- curated: Natalie Portman announced as Thor, and the manbaby fanboys are freaking out
- curated: bonding over movies is in our genes
- herewith the ‘Cats’ trailer, because OMG
- curated: “The Dominance of the White Male Critic”
- curated: Mark Rylance quits Royal Shakespeare Company over BP sponsorship
- curated: fundie Christians demand Netflix cancel Amazon Prime’s Good Omens
- curated: an all-male creative team for a Bene Gesserit TV series?
- the dystopia is here, part 2
- the dystopia is here
- curated: how has no one made a movie about Aloha Wanderwell yet?!
- curated: always be nyuk-nyuk-ing Nazis
- curated: were the works attributed to Shakespeare written by a woman?
- curated: a brief history of spoilers
