movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a wonderfully old-fashioned tearjerker, with a thoroughly delightful cast, where cosy quaint Englishness is leavened by a harsh reality of World War II that pop culture has ignored. Read the review…
latest reviews
- Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) movie review: her own worst enemy
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie review: the stories too painful to tell
- Every Day movie review: a slightly more challenging teen romance
- Funny Cow movie review: standing up for herself
- Beirut movie review: an American man finds absolution in the messy Middle East
- The Titan movie review: bad science, worse science fiction
- Rampage movie review: American kaiju
- Truth or Dare movie review: it has none of either
- Custody (Jusqu’à la garde) movie review: family ties, slashered
- Even When I Fall documentary review: a big enough tent for all
- Borg vs McEnroe movie review: they get served
- Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero movie review: dogged soldier
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
- ‘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
- WTF?! UK DVD release of ‘Megan Leavey’ pretends the movie isn’t about Megan Leavey
- this is a real movie: ‘Dance to Death’
- Jesus Christ is now following me on Letterboxd!
- things Hollywood men could have said at the Golden Globes
- AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced
- I’m highlighting female participation in a film with each new review
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finest internets
- 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
- curated: the importance of ‘Black Panther’s commentary on museums and colonialism
- curated: Tess Raser’s “Wakanda Curriculum” for middle-schoolers (and everyone else)
- BAFTA 2018 winners announced
- curated: the fake Crocodile Dundee sequel trailers are how you do viral marketing in 2018
- curated: ‘Saving Private Ryan’ with all the men edited out
- curated: Star Wars actors mock fan who recut film to remove women
