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 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
- Ordinary Love movie review: marriage story
- The Whistleblower movie review: action drama with a big cultural barrier to overcome
- Playmobil: The Movie movie review: a cheap ad disguised as a movie (barely)
- Frozen II movie review: the thaw sets in
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 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
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 25–27
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Dec 26
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 20
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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
