movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: A Star Wars–flavored juice drink* of a movie (*contains 10% real juice) that tells us nothing of significance we didn’t already know about Han Solo, in an incarnation that lacks his essential charisma and precarious danger. Read the review…
latest reviews
- Solo: A Star Wars Story movie review: where has our scoundrel gone?
- 1945 movie review: a reckoning for the collaborators
- On Chesil Beach movie review: no sex, please, we’re British
- 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)
2017’s films, ranked by maryann (now final)
2018’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- gendered abuse I have received
- 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)
- ‘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
