Where Are the Women? The Hunting Ground
There are so many women onscreen, including the vast majority of the university administrators, lawyers, activists, and other experts interviewed.
The Hunting Ground documentary review: why you have no idea how bad rape is on campus
U.S. universities have plenty of financial incentives to minimize rape on campus, as this enraging film demonstrates. But there are women fighting back…
Rams (Hrútar) movie review: brothers in farms
Exists on the spectrum between “fascinating and unclassifiably odd” and “could almost be a parody of an arthouse film except it’s too moving to be a joke.”
Tumbledown movie review: letting go of the past
A portrait of grief that borrows the conventions of romantic comedies. There may not be a lot of passion here, but there is plenty of pleasant zing.
Where Are the Women? The Hateful Eight
An opportunity for a female villain whose crimes are not gendered is squandered in favor of rendering her a punching bag for male protagonists.
Where Are the Women? The Revenant
Apart from motivating visions of the male protagonist’s dead wife and a kidnapped and raped woman for him to rescue, women are absent from this film.
Where Are the Women? The Big Short
Some of the characters in the all-male based-on-fact ensemble have been fictionalized, so there’s no reason why one of them couldn’t have been a woman.
Where Are the Women? The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The only female character with any significant presence instantly morphs into supportive help for men and a love interest for one of them.
Where Are the Women? Joy
Any story about a woman pursuing goals beyond love and motherhood is a positive turn. Minus a few points, however, for making fun of feminine tastes.
Where Are the Women? A War (Krigen)
A wife character with a bit more to do than the usual female support for a male protagonist keeps this male-centered story from scoring worse than it does.
