movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: This shrewd sci-fi horror franchise is as sharp as ever as it reaches yet further down into the unpleasant flipside of the American myth. The First Purge is a rare prequel that doesn’t feel superfluous. Read the review…
latest reviews
- 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
- Boundaries movie review: family lies
- Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms movie review: the tragedy of the immortal
- Eating Animals documentary review: where’s the beef (coming from)?
- The Happy Prince movie review: in the gutter, looking at the stars
- Ocean’s Eight movie review: revenge of the women
- Studio 54 documentary review: inside the velvet ropes
- Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist documentary review: counterculture’s wise elder woman
- Half the Picture documentary review: a woman’s place is behind the camera (#SundanceLondon2018)
- McQueen documentary review: the tragedy of the fashion provocateur
2017’s films, ranked by maryann (now final)
2018’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- 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
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- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 29
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- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 22
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Mon Jun 18
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 15
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Jun 14
- curated: even when women film critics exist, we’re ignored by gatekeepers
- movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 08
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finest internets
- 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
- curated: the best should-be meme you’ll see today starring Tilda Swinton and Mads Mikkelsen
- curated: on the diversity of fans, Part 7,862,971, Marvel Edition
- curated: the proposed TV interview show for men taken down by #MeToo
- curated: based-on-fact movie replaces real-life woman hero with invented idiot man protagonist
- curated: the implosion of Channel Awesome
