movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Mar 14
Rooney Mara and Alicia Vikander head up their own stories, about women with varying degrees of adventure in their souls.
Mary Magdalene movie review: the Gospel of Mary
A fiercely feminist and proudly revisionist historical drama that offers a powerful and much-needed rebuke to modern Christianity. Enrapturingly beautiful and intensely emotional.
Tomb Raider movie review: raiders of the old movie
Another videogame adaptation in which empty avatars run around perfunctorily because that’s what the plot requires of them. There’s no humor, no fizz, no movie magic at all.
Submission movie review: a hot take on gender power dynamics from opposite-world
In the moment of #MeToo, this tale of the relationship between a male professor and a young female student is howlingly out of step and outrageously tone deaf. And that’s on top of its tedious clichés.
Stephen Hawking isn’t gone forever…
He’ll be back.
Mom and Dad movie review: they’re giving the kids something to cry about
A brilliant, if demented, concept could have been The Purge for parenthood, but it is inadequately explored, and then abruptly dropped by a sudden ending. The entire third act of the film is missing.
In the Land of Pomegranates documentary review: is the Middle East fixable?
The state of affairs in the Middle East may actually be thornier than it seems from afar: that is the position this brave, intimate perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to take.
This Beautiful Fantastic movie review: this ordinary normal
An ostensible fairy tale of the creative life in London that tries too hard to be eccentric, while also trying too hard to be grounded and realistic. This is one of those idiosyncrasies that you really can’t have both ways.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Mar 09
Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of the classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, starring Storm Reid, is the big news…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Mon Mar 05
There are NO new wide releases in the UK this week by or about women, but there are some smaller ones…
