Youth movie rating: red light
Overwrought nine-tenth-life crisis drama; not even a great cast can create sympathy for the artistic and existential turning points on arty display.
Month: February 2016
London photo: Odeon is for Leo for the Oscar
The U.K. cinema chain has gotten behind Leonardo DiCaprio to win the Oscar on Sunday.
Where Are the Women? Mustang
A female protagonist lashes out against a restrictive culture that denies her personhood and her agency simply because she is female. So much awesome.
Mustang movie review: the “wife factory”
Smart, perceptive, keenly observant, heartbreaking: how the world crushes girls and turns lively people into automatons merely because they are female.
Exposed movie review: cover it up, burn it, bury it, never look at it again
To call it disjointed is an understatement: Exposed is unintelligible. It feels like two completely different movies inelegantly Frankensteined together.
Where Are the Women? Anomalisa
May be fresh in its storytelling approach, but the story it is telling is one that puts women in no more than supporting roles to a man’s personal journey.
Anomalisa movie review: maximal mundanity
An astonishing, even perception-altering experience that represents a startling use of animation to tell a story that no live-action film could tell.
Where Are the Women? Son of Saul
Women are almost entirely absent from this film. But that’s okay, since it is mostly set within a plausible all-male environment.
Son of Saul movie review: how to remain human
Did you think you had heard all the unbearable stories about the Holocaust? You hadn’t. Hard to watch, but an essential installment of Holocaust cinema.
Where Are the Women? My All American
Only two women appear in any meaningful way: the adoring and supportive mother of the male protagonist, and his even more adoring and supportive girlfriend.
