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MaryAnn’s quick take: Devoid of personality and soul, Alita: Battle Angel is a hellish Frankenstein monster of processed entertainment product that wallows in a stew of borrowed ideas and imagery and does absolutely nothing fresh with them. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World movie review: dragon its feet to a blah finale
- Alita: Battle Angel movie review: ‘Rollerblade Runner’ with a Strong Female Character(TM)
- If Beale Street Could Talk movie review: a velvet fist of love and strength
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part movie review: everything is still (mostly) awesome
- Cold Pursuit movie review: hot mess
- Burning (Beoning) movie review: same old Mr Nice Guy
- The Mule movie review: the old man and the drugs
- Nina movie review: dreary would-be sexual melodrama
- Glass movie review: superhero ’splaining
- Destroyer movie review: holding out for an antiheroine
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening documentary review: a flow of time and hope
- Voices of the Sea documentary review: when home cannot nurture a family
2018’s films, ranked by maryann
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maryann sez…
- have some more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 13-15
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 13-15
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 08
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 06-08
- (fictional) notes from The British Museum continue…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 01
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 01
- yet more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
- because nothing evokes the spirit of the Christmas Baby Jesus like hate mail
- a running tally of all the artists and intellectuals hassled by border agents or actually kept out of America under Trump
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Jan 23-25
- still more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
- Patreon-patron-only content has arrived
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jan 25
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finest internets
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- curated: Trump’s misunderstanding of ‘Game of Thrones’ is totally emblematic of our culture today
- curated: “What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era”
- behold 20th Century Fox’s brand-new Christmas trailer… for ‘Die Hard’
- curated: the #MeToo scandal surrounding Geoffrey Rush
- curated: “Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie”
- curated: long-lost Kit Harington/Toothless audition tapes surface
- curated: ‘Die Hard’ IS a Christmas movie
- curated: “Movies Starring Women Earn More Than Male-Led Films”
- curated: Rose Macaulay, author, influenced Orwell and Huxley, forgotten and erased
- curated: teaching cinema in the age of #MeToo
- curated: Jodie Whittaker is getting paid the same as the male Doctors
- curated: contemplating ‘The Good Place’…
- curated: writers and musicians are being denied visas for professional visits to the UK
