movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: Jason Statham versus a giant prehistoric shark. The Meg is never less — yet also never more — than you expect, and never more suspenseful or scary than it is cheesy. But whatev. Go, and enjoy. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- The Darkest Minds movie review: seeking a prom date for the end of the world
- The Meg movie review: shark lark
- Dog Days movie review: a mangy mongrel of a movie
- Sicilian Ghost Story movie review: grim failing tale
- Teen Titans Go! To the Movies movie review: the last action heroes (to get a movie)
- Puzzle movie review: reclaiming the pieces of her life
- Apostasy movie review: witness to the oppression of religion
- 93Queen documentary review: women are doing it for themselves
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout movie review: here we go again
- The Receptionist movie review: unpretty woman
- The First Purge movie review: a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ for #BlackLivesMatter
- Whitney documentary review: an 80s icon contemplated, venerated, mourned
2018’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 08
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Aug 10
- no, I have not reviewed ‘Sorry to Bother You’; yes, I would love to
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 01
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Aug 02
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Jul 25
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 27
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jul 20
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 20
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jul 13
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 13
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Jul 04
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jul 04
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 29
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jun 27
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finest internets
- curated: writers and musicians are being denied visas for professional visits to the UK
- curated: was an unidentified Cape Cop murder victim an extra in ‘Jaws’?
- curated: as long as Hollywood is dominated by white men…
- curated: racist science fiction and Donald Trump
- curated: vampire capitalists are killing journalism
- curated: NPR erases the work of a woman journalist… in a story about her work
- curated: the con artist impersonating the (few) powerful women of Hollywood
- curated: Brie Larson wants more diverse film critics; white dudes unhappy
- curated: even when women film critics exist, we’re ignored by gatekeepers
- curated: horrible “fans” hound Kelly Marie Tran off Instagram
- curated: Lando Calrissian, space vlogger
- curated: now I *really* want to see Lord & Miller’s Han Solo movie
- curated: ‘Show Dogs’ gets recut following complaints it helps pedophiles
- 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
