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film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997

OFCS 2020 awards nominees announced

Wed Jan 20 2021, 06:35pm | 0 comments

AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue Jan 05 2021, 09:34pm | 0 comments

AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced

Mon Jan 13 2020, 04:54pm | 0 comments

OFCS 2019 awards winners announced

Wed Jan 08 2020, 02:06pm | 0 comments

UK online critics pick ‘The Irishman’ as best film of 2019 in HeyUGuys poll

UK online critics pick ‘The Irishman’ as best film of 2019 in HeyUGuys poll

Fri Dec 27 2019, 05:15pm | 0 comments

curated: “The Dominance of the White Male Critic”

Sat Jul 06 2019, 02:11pm | 0 comments

AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu Jan 10 2019, 09:48pm | 0 comments

OFCS 2018 awards winners announced

Wed Jan 02 2019, 10:15pm | 0 comments

curated: “What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era”

Wed Jan 02 2019, 01:47pm | 0 comments

online critics pick ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ as best film of 2018 in HeyUGuys poll

Wed Dec 19 2018, 04:25pm | 0 comments

curated: Brie Larson wants more diverse film critics; white dudes unhappy

Thu Jun 14 2018, 02:18pm | 7 comments

curated: even when women film critics exist, we’re ignored by gatekeepers

Mon Jun 11 2018, 06:46pm | 3 comments

curated: has the Internet killed cultural criticism?

Sat May 12 2018, 09:03pm | 14 comments

curated: the implosion of Channel Awesome

Mon Apr 02 2018, 02:11pm | 64 comments

curated: why we need more female film critics, part 54,335

Sat Mar 31 2018, 04:51pm | 0 comments

AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue Jan 09 2018, 08:54pm | 5 comments

OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

Thu Dec 28 2017, 09:09pm | 0 comments

curated: online critics pick ‘Get Out’ as best film of 2017 in HeyUGuys poll

Wed Dec 20 2017, 12:19pm | 0 comments

curated: even the “contrarian” film critics are white men

Thu Dec 07 2017, 09:10pm | 11 comments

curated: LA, NYC, Boston and Nat’l film critics boycott Disney films in year-end awards

Tue Nov 07 2017, 12:32pm | 1 comment

curated: Harry Knowles is a total creep

Mon Sep 25 2017, 06:39pm | 51 comments

curated: why I am a feminist film critic

Wed Sep 13 2017, 03:10pm | 6 comments

curated: yes, Hollywood is trying to game opening-day Rotten Tomatoes scores

Thu Sep 07 2017, 02:05pm | 11 comments

curated: Film Crit Hulk on film criticism in the age of intersectionalism

Sun Aug 06 2017, 05:43pm | 4 comments

curated: a whole buncha critics (including me) on the best movies of 2017 so far

Wed Jul 12 2017, 10:11pm | 0 comments

curated: on the ethics of criticism

Wed May 24 2017, 05:19pm | 0 comments

curated: male filmmaker attempts to get Film Twitter to shun a female critic and female-led publication who gave him a bad review

Mon May 22 2017, 07:05pm | 5 comments

curated: more reasons we need more female film critics

Fri May 19 2017, 08:23pm | 0 comments

curated: all fucked up on the ‘Wonder Woman’ front

Tue May 16 2017, 05:16pm | 1 comment

curated: “born sexy yesterday”

Tue May 02 2017, 02:21pm | 0 comments

curated: no, Rotten Tomatoes is not killing film criticism

Mon Mar 27 2017, 10:52pm | 8 comments

curated: film criticism is heavily male-dominated

Wed Mar 08 2017, 09:31am | 7 comments

curated: industry site The Wrap goes full fanboy

Tue Feb 28 2017, 07:44pm | 2 comments

curated: I’m not the only critic writing about “movies for the resistance”

Wed Feb 01 2017, 05:28pm | 1 comment

curated: apparently film critics are resisting wrong

Tue Jan 31 2017, 03:19pm | 3 comments

curated: the most sexist thing I’ve heard yet in the wake of Carrie Fisher’s passing

Mon Jan 09 2017, 08:30pm | 10 comments

OFCS 2016 awards winners announced

Tue Jan 03 2017, 10:30pm | 7 comments

curated: ‘Arrival’ is the HeyUGuys online film critics’ best film of 2016

Sat Dec 24 2016, 05:09pm | 0 comments

AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu Dec 22 2016, 09:54pm | 0 comments

from Facebook: how did Devin Faraci get to be so powerful and successful, anyway?

Wed Oct 12 2016, 07:41am | 4 comments

from Twitter: are the studios trying to kill off indie critics?

Fri Sep 02 2016, 10:50am | 9 comments

from Facebook: AWFJ’s #WonderWomen countdown gets to No 1…

Mon Aug 29 2016, 03:10pm | 2 comments

from Facebook: 177 critics (not including me) pick the top 100 films of the 21st century

Tue Aug 23 2016, 03:15pm | 7 comments

from Facebook: AWFJ #WonderWomen countdown continues (no 22-12)

Mon Aug 22 2016, 04:54pm | 2 comments

from Facebook: AWFJ #WonderWomen countdown continues (no 33-23)

Mon Aug 15 2016, 05:23pm | 0 comments

from Facebook: the AWFJ continues its Wonder Women countdown

Mon Aug 08 2016, 05:46pm | 0 comments

from Facebook: who are the greatest female screen characters?

Mon Aug 01 2016, 02:17pm | 15 comments

from Facebook: men dominate film criticism

Fri Jun 24 2016, 12:07am | 0 comments

from Facebook: critics refusing to review movies, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria

Thu May 19 2016, 01:43pm | 11 comments

from Facebook: London Film Critics Circle says “Pay the writer”

Sat Mar 19 2016, 03:49pm | 2 comments

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