Where Are the Women? Anomalisa
May be fresh in its storytelling approach, but the story it is telling is one that puts women in no more than supporting roles to a man’s personal journey.
Anomalisa movie review: maximal mundanity
An astonishing, even perception-altering experience that represents a startling use of animation to tell a story that no live-action film could tell.
Where Are the Women? Son of Saul
Women are almost entirely absent from this film. But that’s okay, since it is mostly set within a plausible all-male environment.
Son of Saul movie review: how to remain human
Did you think you had heard all the unbearable stories about the Holocaust? You hadn’t. Hard to watch, but an essential installment of Holocaust cinema.
Where Are the Women? My All American
Only two women appear in any meaningful way: the adoring and supportive mother of the male protagonist, and his even more adoring and supportive girlfriend.
My All American movie review: football fundamentalism
Not an inspirational football movie but the highlights reel from one, with a golden boy who is his own manic pixie dreamboat. The worst sort of hagiography.
Where Are the Women? Rock the Kasbah
From a mean ex to a hooker with a heart of gold, women exist in this world only for what they can do for — or to — the male protagonist.
Rock the Kasbah movie review: whitemansplaining, the movie
Behold Bill Murray as the white savior barreling into a foreign land and teaching the ignorant natives how to be better people. Obnoxious and tone deaf.
Where Are the Women? Woodlawn
Women appear only extremely briefly as supportive wives and mothers, or as romantic interests who must be rescued (by a man, natch) from another man’s abuse.
Woodlawn movie review: Jesus is an Alabama football fan, obvs
A film taken with the singular American delusion that Jesus loves football… though it also throws in a new delusion: Jesus hates the U.S. Constitution.
