Where Are the Women? Embrace of the Serpent
Girls and women appear in this movie only in the background, only in a few scenes, and only in ways that have no bearing whatsoever on the plot or themes.
Embrace of the Serpent movie review: mild Amazonian odyssey
More intriguing in its ambitions than in it successes, which are limited, and oddly keeps its distance from the very people it wants to enlighten us about.
Where Are the Women? Theeb
No girls or women appear in this movie at all. There is a photo of a woman, a wife far away in another land, but that’s it.
Theeb movie review: a tiny slice of the Great War, through a child’s eyes
A gorgeous, cracking adventure with a smart ring of authenticity, full of pulpy twists and perils, and with a sweetly naive but gruffly charming young hero.
Where Are the Women? Youth
A story all about how women are mere elements in the grand works of art that are men’s lives, often as little more than decorative objects.
Youth movie rating: red light
Overwrought nine-tenth-life crisis drama; not even a great cast can create sympathy for the artistic and existential turning points on arty display.
London photo: Odeon is for Leo for the Oscar
The U.K. cinema chain has gotten behind Leonardo DiCaprio to win the Oscar on Sunday.
Where Are the Women? Mustang
A female protagonist lashes out against a restrictive culture that denies her personhood and her agency simply because she is female. So much awesome.
Mustang movie review: the “wife factory”
Smart, perceptive, keenly observant, heartbreaking: how the world crushes girls and turns lively people into automatons merely because they are female.
Exposed movie review: cover it up, burn it, bury it, never look at it again
To call it disjointed is an understatement: Exposed is unintelligible. It feels like two completely different movies inelegantly Frankensteined together.
