movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: An indie ethos comes to the comic-book movie with Captain Marvel, which upends the origin story and offers a female superhero who throws out the boys’ rule book, goes her own way, and stalks among us with easy confidence. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- The Fight movie review: a woman’s struggle is real…
- Five Feet Apart movie review: love/sick teen romance
- Children of the Snow Land documentary review: an epic journey… to and from school
- Captain Marvel movie review: superpowered female SJW invites manbaby nerds to suck it
- Doctor Who: “Logopolis” Fathom Event review: it’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for
- Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben) movie review: weak wedding whodunnit
- The Aftermath movie review: don’t mention the war…
- Serenity movie review: gonna need a bigger nope
- Capernaum movie review: a child’s real-life horror
- Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2019 (91st Academy Awards) review
- Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts 2019 (91st Academy Awards) review
- Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2019 (91st Academy Awards) review
2018’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- “(fictional) notes from The British Museum #11” now live (late!)
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 15
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 14-15
- having a gone day
- me on feminist film criticism
- my flash-fiction project “(fictional) notes from The British Museum” continues
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 08
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 08
- 2019’s film ranked (a teaser)
- another installment of (fictional) notes from The British Museum
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 27-Mar 01
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 25-Mar 01
- my picks for tonight’s 91st Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2018’s films) (winners indicated)
- more (fictional) notes from The British Museum
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Feb 22
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finest internets
- curated: toys of Japanese monsters giving press conferences to apologize for destroying cities
- curated: White Savior: The Movie Trailer
- curated: the arts contribute more to the US economy than agriculture or transportation
- curated: all worldbuilding is political…
- curated: Emma Thompson’s powerful #MeToo letter to Skydance re John Lasseter’s “second chance”
- curated: it’s not only *digital* journalism that the free market kills…
- curated: YouTube bans videos showing dangerous pranks and stunts
- curated: the da Vinci money-laundering scam to benefit Trump that will make a great movie
- curated: Trump’s misunderstanding of ‘Game of Thrones’ is totally emblematic of our culture today
- curated: “What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era”
- behold 20th Century Fox’s brand-new Christmas trailer… for ‘Die Hard’
- curated: the #MeToo scandal surrounding Geoffrey Rush
- curated: “Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie”
- curated: long-lost Kit Harington/Toothless audition tapes surface
- curated: ‘Die Hard’ IS a Christmas movie
- curated: “Movies Starring Women Earn More Than Male-Led Films”
