movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Aug 02
Evangeline Lilly gets super tiny; Gemma Arterton runs away from her marriage; more…
Sicilian Ghost Story movie review: grim failing tale
A cruel film that hopes to use its fantastical surreality to find some sort of redemption in the senseless, violent, and real-life abuse of a child. There is no magic here, and no meaning.
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies movie review: the last action heroes (to get a movie)
The superhero movie we need, and also the one we karmically deserve. A riot of hilariously zippy animation that gleefully shreds the clichés of the genre while also lovingly embracing its self-referential geek experience.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Jul 25
Rachel Freier starts an ambulance service; Kelly Macdonald gets into jigsaw puzzles; more…
Puzzle movie review: reclaiming the pieces of her life
Kelly Macdonald is exquisite, bringing a lovely freshness and authentic life to a familiar sort of character. Even a script that is often improbable and strained cannot detract from her journey, hard as it tries to.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jul 27
Sophia Aguiar struggles with Internet fame; the life of photographer and spy Edith Tudor-Hart is explored; more…
Apostasy movie review: witness to the oppression of religion
A scathing critique of inhumanity in the name of religion — in this case, Jehovah’s Witnesses — made all the more chilling by its drab colorlessness and mute suffocation.
93Queen documentary review: women are doing it for themselves
An enormously entertaining portrait of Hasidic women who started their own all-female EMS team in Brooklyn. Eye-opening and stereotype-shattering.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout movie review: here we go again
Masterful. I had so much fun with this, often laughing out loud in relief when the tension of a breathless action scene finally broke. So why am I feeling a bit meh about it?
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jul 20
Amanda Seyfried learns about her mother Meryl Streep’s past; Lauren Greenfield looks back to her childhood in glitzy Los Angeles to explore American materialism; and more…
