All About Nina movie review: a woman owning her anger
Hail Mary, full of rage. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is utterly incendiary in this own-worst-enemy dramedy that gender-flips a tired genre to give angry new voice to a woman speaking her own truths.
Month: September 2018
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 28
Clare Niederpruem directs a modern updating of Little Women; Eva Vives directs dramedy All About Nina; Becca Gleason directs comedy Summer ’03; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Sep 28
Crystal Moselle’s coming-of-age drama Skate Kitchen and Kate Novack’s documentary The Gospel According to André hit the screens…
Science Fair documentary review: these kids today, with their changing the world…
Meet some of the most brilliant teenagers alive, high-school students from all over the world competing at the World Cup of genius geekery. Funny, sobering, and inspiring.
Little Women (2018) movie review: sisters weird
This modern update of the beloved classic novel is embarrassingly misjudged, so earnest and on-the-nose a transfer to today that the March sisters feel not like modern girls but odd, out-of-step transplants from another time.
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. documentary review: the multiple identities of a modern artist
A tremendous backgrounder, intimate and personal, on the massively popular — and massively political — hip-hop artist. Here is the source of all her anger and passion, and here is why she needs to be heard.
Jane Fonda in Five Acts documentary review: the political is her personal
An extraordinarily intimate and perceptive new biography of the legendary actor and activist. Fonda reveals insecurities and anxieties that are achingly raw and very personal, but which many women will see themselves in.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 21
Lisa Dapolito directs a documentary about comedian Gilda Radner; Sasha Waters Freyer directs a documentary about the photographer Garry Winogrand; more..
A Happening of Monumental Proportions movie review: no, honey, no
The title is intentionally ironic, and yet still feels like a bad and desperately unfunny joke. The spectacular all-star cast holds their noses and gamely dives in anyway, for the sake of Judy Greer’s directorial debut.
Where Are the Women? goes to Ravencon
OMG! My feminist-rating criteria has a fancy name like The Bechdel Test! Apparently people are calling it “The Johanson Analysis.” I am floored and immensely flattered.
