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film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
Hollywood is killing itself; failing to understand women is only part of that. Smart visual storytelling is all over TV and short films. In big-money films? Forget it, too experimental. Adding women won’t fix that; what it needs to do is not be bound up in the fear of losing millions, which constrains it to the safest possible routes.