movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jan 26
Two tiny releases — both about women but both written and directed by men — are all that’s new on offer this week for anyone looking for women’s stories.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jan 26
Two foreign-language films, each playing on only a single screen in London: that’s it for movies by or about women this week.
Please Stand By movie review: fan trek
A lovely, gentle geek adventure that appreciates the importance of fandom as a source of inspiration and comfort, with a subtle and resolutely unsentimental performance by Dakota Fanning as an autistic fan.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure movie review: cute boys at the end of the world
The Auto-Tuned boy-band version of the apocalypse. You will forgive that every plot point that isn’t a cliché is in fact a plot hole because the hero is so dreamy and impossibly perfect, right?
The Cinema Travellers documentary review: moving pictures, under threat
A marvelous film, so full of the wonder of movies, so melancholy about the changing cinema landscape, so hopeful that though the technology is changing, the love will endure.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jan 19
Women fall for aliens, older men, and the mad power of running a major newspaper.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Jan 18
Margot Robbie, Vicky Krieps, and Lesley Manville are not taking any crap from men.
Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story documentary review: of human cruelty
A heartbreaking, deeply upsetting exposé of “the largest wildlife slaughter anywhere in the world,” one that has much to say about us humans and our relationship with the natural world.
this is a real movie: ‘Dance to Death’
It’s The Hunger Games meets Step Up!
Attraction (Prityazhenie) movie review: when ET is dreamy
It has a spectacular opening sequence, and features a few minor tweaks to alien-invasion tropes. But the teen romance at its center reduces this to a very inconsequential first contact.
