movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: It’s tormented hotheads all around in American Assassin with a hero and villain who are almost indistinguishable and same-old spy stuff racing to a seen-it, been-there ticking-clock finale. Read the review…
latest reviews
- Battle of the Sexes movie review: totally ace
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- American Assassin movie review: we’ve CIAn it all before
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- My Pure Land movie review: meet a real-life heroine in a land that really doesn’t want her
- mother! movie review: from WTF to STFU
- It movie review: a series of unfortunate events
- The Vault movie review: where the money is haunted
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maryann sez…
- Happy Hobbit Day!
- give $1, just once, for Flick Filosopher’s 20th anniversary
- I am AWFJ’s Spotlight profile for September
- the paywall is gone
- I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” on Sunday July 30th
- one big reason why I love ‘House of Cards’ (spoiler: its depiction of women wielding power)
- curated: a whole buncha critics (including me) on the best movies of 2017 so far
- this site is now secure (with https://)
- a running tally of all the artists and intellectuals hassled by border agents or actually kept out of America under Trump
- lighter than usual posting for the next few weeks, probably
- how not to get on a critic’s shit list
- ‘Alien’ may be feminist, but not because it’s about rape
- a few thoughts on ‘Big Little Lies’ (and open thread)
- hilarious British comedy ‘Mindhorn’ now streaming on US Netflix
- I think I’ve fixed the mobile problem
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finest internets
- curated: yes, actors are well paid for their often long working days…
- curated: the gender imbalance in British film has not improved in a century
- curated: ‘Moana’ in Maori
- curated: ‘Wonder Woman’ Honest Trailer
- curated: suddenly I’m a little worried about Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’…
- curated: why I am a feminist film critic
- curated: ‘It’ has an even bigger problem with race than I realized
- curated: yes, Hollywood is trying to game opening-day Rotten Tomatoes scores
- curated: art cops are off-duty in London
- curated: the haunting Twitter horror story of “Dear David”
- curated: no movies are opening wide in the US this weekend
- curated: John Denver’s music is in all the movies this summer
- curated: the grim, cynical pop culture of the Trump era
- curated: everything is broken, Hollywood edition
- curated: how to scam the New York Times’ bestseller list…
- curated: 25,000 78rpm records now online for your listening pleasure
