movie of the moment…
MaryAnn’s quick take: There’s magic in Frozen II, and elemental spirits, but no magic and nothing elemental, metaphorically speaking. Rote and smaller than its predecessor. Even the songs are bland and forgettable. Read the review…
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latest reviews
- 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
- Knives Out movie review: catch your death of fun (#LFF2019)
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood movie review: the importance of radical kindness (#LFF2019)
- 21 Bridges movie review: roads to nowhere
- Radioflash movie review: it’s got no juice
- The Cave and For Sama documentaries review: life inside a war zone
- Last Christmas movie review: give it your heart, get your heart stomped
- The Good Liar movie review: mangled web
- Le Mans ’66 (aka Ford v Ferrari) movie review: when “circle back” meant something else in corporatespeak
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound documentary review: why movies sound so great (even if you never noticed before)
2019’s films, ranked by maryann
all reviews, 1997–today
maryann sez…
- I’m hosting a postscreening Q&A at London’s Regent Street Cinema on Sunday Dec 15th
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Nov 27–29
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Nov 27–29
- 2019’s films ranked (a teaser as we head into the awards-season final stretch)
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Nov 22
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Nov 22
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Nov 15
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Nov 15
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Nov 06–08
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Nov 04–08
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Nov 01
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Nov 01
- new sci-fi flash fiction: “A Little Knowledge…”
- movies by or about women opening US/Can Oct 25
- movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Oct 23–25
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finest internets
- 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
- curated: explaining Captain Marvel’s vitally important, gamechanging character arc
